BMW Motorrad's Q3 2024 motorcycle delivery numbers are in, and they're down slightly as compared to Q3 of 2023. But it's a very slight decrease, and when you see the actual numbers, it's still a lot of bikes that the company is moving worldwide.
By the OEM's own guidance, the firm expects to stay about even with last year's sales when the final year-end report is tallied. What kind of numbers are we talking about? In Q3 of 2024, BMW delivered a total of 50,364 motorcycles worldwide. That's down 3.2 percent year over year on Q3 of 2023, when BMW delivered 52,037 bikes to customers.
As for the first three quarters of 2024, how are the sales figures looking there? From January 1 through September 30, 2024, BMW Motorrad delivered a total of 163,436 motorcycles to customers worldwide. That represents a 0.9 percent decrease over the number of deliveries from January 1 through September 30, 2023, when BMW delivered 164,908 bikes.
To be clear, that's less than a one percent decrease, year on year. Or, in real numbers, that's a difference of 1,472 bikes. We'll have to see how the numbers work out for Q4 of 2024, but since those are still in the future at the time of writing, those will just have to wait until the beginning of 2025 when the year-end report is released.
A single quarter doesn't really tell you much on its own for any company, though, so I went back to 2022 and pulled the data to chart how BMW Motorrad's motorcycle deliveries have changed over time. Here they are, plotted out by quarter, from Q1 of 2022 through to Q3 of 2024, which is the most recent period for which we have data available.
