chennai bmw motorrad the german luxury marque bmws motorcycle arm has clocked an alltime sales high in 2018 its 8th in a row with its made in india g 310 r and g 310 gs featuring among the topfive models worldwide the company has reported significant growth in india even as its worldwide deliveries increased by 09 per cent to 165566 vehicles as many as 24363 units of the g 310 r and g 310 gs models produced in india since 2017 have already been delivered to customers by the end of 2018the two agile allrounders are thus among the top five of the topselling models in 2018 and are very popular all over the world said the company in a statement bmw motorrad also announced its focus on new markets and segments for 2019 the company sold 2187 units in india in 2018 as the bmw groups own sales subsidiary was successfully established sales of bmw motorcycles began following the start of business in 2017 added the company statementin april 2013 tvs motor company and bmw motorrad signed a longterm strategic partnership to manufacture sub500cc motorcycles for the globethis collaboration has resulted in the launch of three products on the 310cc platform namely bmw g 310 r bmw 310 gs and tvs motor companys tvs apache rr 310 last month the 50000th unit of the bmw 310cc motorcycle rolled out from tvs motors hosur plant the exports for bmw g 310 r and bmw 310 gs commenced in december 2016 and are currently being offered in more than 90 countries the india growth comes alongside some topgear performance in china and brazil with 7561 bmw motorcycles and scooters sold and a growth rate of over 35 per cent china together with brazil 7361 units up 11 per cent are among the markets with the strongest growthwith this sales record bmw motorrad takes another step towards reaching its planned target of 200000 units in the year 2020 said markus schramm head of bmw motorradin india bmw g 310 r has a starting price of rs 299 lakh while the g 310 gs is latched at a price of rs 349 lakh