BMW MINI Global Deliveries : 2023-25

Retro models rarely last too long. An initial flurry and then it's over. The MINI has lasted very well and still sells strongly. In an industry where models grow with each new generation MINI has also fallen victim. 

MINI hit 300,000 deliveries in 2012 and stayed above that until 2022 when it slipped just below. 2023 did likewise and then a drop in 2024, one that you have to go back to 2010 to see it lower. 

Was the grim reaper sharpening his scythe? No. The fourth generation has arrived and sales went back up, but not to the heights it has achieved in the past. It is still a popular car that's fun to drive. 288,300 deliveries and an 18% increase confirm that. 

BMW doesn't post regional sales for MINI. Europe and North America are major destinations for shipments. I don't know how the US's tariffs are going to affect sales there. For now, at least, 2025 was a success. 

Mexico Korea/China Car Production : 2025

Kia has had a plant here 2016 and JAC 2017 so both are relatively new. Kia is heavily export driven whereas for JAC its focus is more on the local market.

Kia: The plant has an annual 400,000 unit capacity so just under three quarters utilised at this time. Its purpose is to supply the American continent wtih about 75% of production exported. 

It also assembles Hyundai products, the current one being the Tucson. It isn't a major volume, making up less than 7% of production in 2025.

JAC: It assembles a range of vehicles, relying heavily on imported content from China. JAC recently increased capacity to 60,000 units per annum.  

It has a goal to develop more local suppliers. Some of the figures in the chart would only be viable with limited local content. 

The range is extensive, the models listed covering cars, SUVs, MPVs, vans and light trucks.  

Summary: Two very different assembly operations are shown here. One focused on fewer models at higher volume and the other the opposite. Yet they are both proving successful.  

Data source: INIGI. Photo source: Promexicoindustry.

BMW Brand Global Deliveries : 2023-25

BMW is a marque that puts emphasis on performance. A BMW advertiseing executive even coined the phrase "The ultimate driving machine". I've never driven one to prove that, but at least I can check out the sales performance.

BMW currently delivers about 2.2 million cars each year. The last time the figure was below 2 million was 2015. 

2025 again passed that mark and comfortably so. In the end it was 2.17 million units. Two consecutive years of reduced deliveries but only fractionally.

Regions: These figures include MINI and RR as BMW release them that way. That explains why the total figures are different. 

Europe is the largest region and is up 7%. Asia has been the leading are for deliveries since 2020 but now for a second year the runner up. Asia is still prominent but the only region down (-9%),  China within that region a drag on sales. The Americas is up 6% and 'Others' up 10%.