The same with Daimler/Mercedes. According to their Q1 results, they sold 16.000 S-class cars.
http://www.daimler.com/Projects/c2c/channel/documents/231271... (page 27)
Re:Tesla sales beating Mercedes, BMW and Audi
by martin_k on Monday May 13, 2013 @09:55AM
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That's worldwide sales while the article seems to compare against USA sales (but forgets to mention this).
They don't mention it.
And according to Tesla's financial report they sold 4900 Model-S in Q1 worldwide.
http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/247559107...
http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/investor_rela...
Sales of the BMW1 Series totalled 53,906 units, almost equalling the previous year’s level (–0.5%). During the quarter ended 31 March 2013 we sold 109,309 units ofthe BMW 3 Series, a jump of 19.9% compared to the previous year. 85,731 BMW 5 Series vehicles were delivered to customers worldwide (+4.3%). Sales of the BMW 6 Series rose sharply to 6,174 units (+32.7%). The BMW 7 Series was handed over to 12,390 customers (–30.3%). The number of BMW Z4 sold fell to 2,982 units (–28.0%).