One of our readers emailed us this little tidbit:
The most successful BMW 7 Series ever.
Accounting for almost 160,000 units delivered to customers worldwide, the fourth-generation 7 Series is the most successful prestige luxury performance sedan in BMW's history. Since its introduction to the world in 2001, the current 7 Series has already outsold the former model by almost 8 per cent. And with customer deliveries of 57,899 units worldwide in its most successful year so far, 2003, the current BMW 7 Series outperformed its predecessor in that model's best year (1997) by almost 14 per cent.
The Spies contest that if the car would have been beautiful it not only would have outsold the old one by 8 times 8%, it would have become a SERIOUS challenger to the Mercedes S-Class.
The headline COULD have been...
'BMW 7-series the new champ!
Outsells Mercedes S-Class for the first time in history'