BMW tops Mercedes and Audi in 2010 passenger car sales

It depends where you look. If you look at sales figures only for the United States, then Lexus has been the leading premium brand there for about a decade. But for certain months of the year, they get beat by BMW. Globally, though, it's usually a battle between BMW, Mercedes and Audi, with Audi still trailing the first two more established brands.

WCF, i would have prefered you stop feeding the BMW vs Mercedes vs Audi fanboys war and continue F1 coverage instead.

Mini ect. was not in the first numbers if you read it again... Pure Beemer vs. Audi - BMW Victory...!

@ Microice-RS - Please read again: BMW vehicles only sales are 1.22 mil (The BMW Group incl Rols Royce & Mini are 1.46 mil) - then comes M/Benz 1.17 mil (M/Benz Group 1.27 mil) and only then comes Audi 3rd at 1.092 mil vehicles.

yeah dont tell anyone. mini, RR and smart are owned and manufactured by an indonesian company..

@ Garais87 - Please read again: BMW vehicles only sales are 1.22 mil (The BMW Group incl Rols Royce & Mini are 1.46 mil) - then comes M/Benz 1.17 mil (M/Benz Group 1.27 mil) and only then comes Audi 3rd at 1.092 mil vehicles. So please state the facts and not your hopeful opinion. Audi fans were bragging earlier in the year how the will beat both BMW & Merc in vehicle sales for 2010 and guess what.... Audi fell short AGAIN...

Haters will always hate velsatis. Audi is the cash cow of VW and pretty independent (as long as they are successful that won`t change). The only thing that Audi and VW really share are some smaller engines and 2 platforms for their smaller models (A1 and A3), even many electronic parts, incl. the navigation systems are different, not to mention the total difference of the VW and Audi interiors. VW is using touchscreens, Audi MMIs. even the transmission concepts differ. And as u should know, BMW or Mercedes are no better. BMW is using the smaller Peugeot engines for their Mini. The 1,4- 1,6-Liter engines can also be found in the Peugeot 207 and 308 and Citro?n C4 und C4 Picasso. And Mercedes made an agreement with Renault and Nissan a few months ago. The next Smart for 4 will be build on the platform of the Renault Twingo and Mercedes , like BMW, will also use the smaller engines from Nissan and Renault for their Smart and smaller Mercedes models. And if u ask me i`d rather take parts from VW than from Renault/Peugeot or Nissan. phrases like "Audi are just rebadged VWs" have always been old, lame and cheap and are more so now. Audi has become a serious premium contender. By the way Audi as the brand "Horch" (Audi is latin for Horch) is even older than BMW and almost as old as Mercedes. all 3 companies are great and deserve respect.

@velsatis. Absolutely the most insightful and original comment from you yet. WCG - purge this fool for his inability to contribute.

Has for the Bmw example, that is between mini and peugeot not bmw shares am engine with any peugeot making this point a fail. regarding the Smart sharing the platform and even components with the twingo, it still didnt happen but still and again that is between Smart and Renault not Mercedes, regarding the future of component sharing, between the 2 groups, 1st off, it still didnt happen yet so all u are doing is speculation, 2nd, do you actually think we will see in the future an E-Klass or an S-klass with a Renault/Nissan engine in it??? wake up mate, Mercedes might even share its "know-how" with the "French" but put their engines under an S!!!! What a fail of yours. As to the Audi sharing components with VW, u clearly have no idea do you??? "Audi is the cash cow of VW and pretty independent" - They make money because they share components with vw making production of their vehicules obviosly cheaper than a Mercedes or BMW, its plain logics mate. regarding the cow part, u dont actually know how many VW cars are sold around the world every year to make that statement do you???? it shows just a bit lol "some smaller engines", do you even know whats the best sold engine in the entire Audi range??? clearly not. Just to finalise, u never owned an audi, vw, seat or skoda did you??? I used to have a Seat and u clearly dont know how much in my car was the same as in an audi. Inform yourself before making yourself look stupid