Lexus, Mercedes Drive Past BMW in Sales

It's Korea we're talking about here...Hardly a litmus test for ROTW sales. BFD.

— TheRealJT (View Profile)

Posted on 7/7/2006 10:40:19 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

I agree Lexus sales were under 750 unit there,, wooopee

— PlanoA4 (View Profile)

Posted on 7/7/2006 10:59:42 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

The key element in the story is that new models tend to outsell old models and Lexus has the $$$ to keep introducing more models and at a faster pace than BMW and Mercedes.

Also its interesting to see a Japanese luxury brand doing well in another Asian country.

— MercBasher (View Profile)

Posted on 7/7/2006 11:18:01 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Korea is barely 1% of sales for BMW and Merc... Maybe bigger for Lexus...

— Jovi (View Profile)

Posted on 7/8/2006 5:00:41 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

A Korean friend of mine tells me that the Koreans still feel anti-Japanese sentiments because of their shared history in the past. He said that Japanese cars tend to do poorly in Korea. Now I have not checked any sales sheets for this market (and I don't really care either), but I'll take his word for it.

— BMW530i (View Profile)

Posted on 7/8/2006 5:02:28 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

It's good to see Lexus at the top spot,as they deserve this success and with time they will capture and rule many new markets.

JUGNU----->THE CARMAN

— JUGNU (View Profile)

Posted on 7/8/2006 6:30:12 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1