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Originally Posted by Merc1  Long as one realizes that this means that the dealers have requested/ordered them, not that they're actually "sold" to real people yet. |
Mind that in most the other markets (excl. US) sales are done by-the-order (by individual customers), and not of-the-lot (where dealers actually buy new cars from the BMW, and resale them to the individual customers).
US market is specific in this regard since still a lot of cars are sold of-the-lot, therefore US sales are actually "sales to the dealers", while elsewhere the sales is recorded as "delivery to the customer" / "new car registration".