We don't know about the rest of you, but 2013 is shaping up to be a pretty good year for us here at BMW Portland. Next year's models have finally starting making their way into our showroom, going for test drives in the 2014 BMW Z4 Convertible certainly doesn't hurt, and with our new and used cars flying off the lot, the brass at our favorite automaker sure can't complain either.

As we mentioned to you fine folks last month, BMW has been spending a pretty penny on outfitting their lineup with some cutting-edge technologies as of late. But as is often the case in this industry, sometimes you need to spend money to make money.

So when we recently caught wind that their global Q1 earnings before taxes amounted to €2,080 million, we were ecstatic if unsurprised. As for how that compares to their previous earnings records, they were the second-highest earnings they'd ever had in the first quarter of a year.

All in a day's work for BMW.

"Despite the current weakness of car markets in Europe, the BMW group has made a good start to the new financial year 2013," says Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management at BMW. "We achieved a new sales volume record for a first quarter. And despite high expenditure on new technologies and challenging market conditions worldwide, we managed to keep revenues and earnings at high levels."1

Speaking of new technologies, have we got those in spades. So if you'd like to learn more about which ones or models offer, the experts in our car parts department would be happy to fill you in at our dealership here in Portland, OR. After all, sales like these just can't be wrong.

Source: 1http://www.bmwusanews.com/newsrelease.do;jsessionid=9A51AD7BB3E3547756FE8ACF3AE83492?&id=1663&mid=

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