Germany

BMW Motorrad sales reached a record 1,047,286 units in 2011, up an impressive 6.4% compared with 2010. The motorcycle division of Germany's BMW mostly operates in the high-end segment... 2012-01-20

Passenger car production in Germany reached a record 5.87mn units in 2010 (according to estimates from the German autos association VDA), remaining only slightly shy of BMI's expectation... 2012-01-10

Volkswagen (VW)'s announcement that it will beef up its 2012-2016 investment programme for premium brand Audi from the EUR11.6bn allocated earlier to EUR13bn is a sign of VW's confidence... 2011-12-28

The effects of the economic slowdown are beginning to be felt in the German automotive market with ten-month cumulative vehicle sales growth slowing for both the passenger car and commercial... 2011-11-24

An 18% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in sales to EUR22.6bn (US$31.3bn) during the first nine months of 2011 has made German automotive parts supplier Continental confident of its end-year... 2011-11-04

A EUR1bn investment from Germany's Daimler into production of a new van at the company's Vitoria plant brings significant boost to autos manufacturing in Spain, which has been struggling... 2011-11-03

Germany's Porsche has begun work on a EUR500mn investment towards expanding its Leipzig plant, in what BMI sees as a sign of growing optimism at the luxury brand, which is eventually... 2011-10-19