Audi of America Reports Record Sales in Q2 2021
Mercedes Start the Year 2021 With Worldwide Sales Record
Record Lexus sales Jan- June 2021, +32% year-on-year. Toyota maintains record 6.6% market share
In the first six months 2021, Porsche delivers 31 percent more vehicles
Thus all of BMW's major competitors are having record sales. Since everyone's increasing, the key stat is how are they doing relative to each other - i.e., market share. The only data I've seen here is from GrussGott (post #16) which showed BMW is back to where it was in 2005. Nothing really to brag about.
And I'll also add re ugly designs' impact on sales, I would say the cars with the beaver grilles (the G22 and G8x) represent a very minor, if not negligible, % of BMW sales. The biggest impact to sales increases of all brands is probably SUV's.