BMW increased passenger car deliveries by 5.7% to 165,431 in the last month which brought the ytd number to almost 1.51m, an increase of 5.5%. Deliveries of the BMW brand were up by 5.0% to 142,554 and 5.5% to 1.28m, respectively, while Mini deliveries increased by 10% to 22,575 and 5.7% to 223,913. Because of the continuing weakness in the USA, deliveries fell by 4.4% to 38,200 in August in the Americas. The ytd number stood at 298,821 (-7.0%). BMW blames a lack of attractive and new products ....