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I'm struggling to understand how sales are up when inventories at dealers are so low and prices are so high. I guess there must have been pent up demand. What happens in Q4? Sales go up again?
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Q3 of 2020 was still during dealer closings across the country due to COVID.
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This and if you ever took a statistics class, adjust the input to get the desired output.
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I think I read that sales are up compared to 2019 as well. It would be interesting to be in the BMW corporate finance department trying to predict sales. There is pent up demand. More people want cars to avoid public transportation and COVID. At the same time there is the chip shortage and inventories are plummeting. And a lot of people say they hate the way new BMWs look. The latter point seems to be irrelevant.
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If you don't think bmw doesn't (or hasn't) played with the numbers, you clearly haven't been paying attention. And it's not just BMW. It's an industry wide problem.