BMW Sales

BMW has announced global sales of 5,237 motorcycles in January, a new record for the first month and an 11.1% increase from the 4,714 units sold in January 2011BMW also announced positive news for its Husqvarna subsidiary. Husqvarna shipped 544 motorcycles  in January, a 50.3% increase from last year’s total of 362 units. the new year has started very pleasingly for BMW. Never before have we sold as many motorcycles in the first month of a year as in January 2012.

 

The record month follows a banner year for BMW which sold a record 104,286 motorcycles in 2011

BMW Design

 

A native of Boston, Mass., Robb joined BMW as its design chief in 1993, and over the ensuing 18 years expanded the company’s product line to include the top selling R1200GS, the six-cylinder K1600GT and GTL, and the S1000RR superbike (that’s him on the far right in the picture above).

aking over as BMW’s new design chief is Edgar Heinrich, who served under Robb as BMW head of vehicle design motorcycles from 2007 to 2009. In his first go-around with BMW, Heinrich designed models such as the R1100RS, R1100RT, K1200S, K1200R, the HP sportbike and BMW’s Paris-Dakar race bikes. Heinrich was also part of Robb’s design team during development of the S1000RR.