BMW sale slidly fall

The German group BMW said Friday that 2009 sales slipped by 4.7 per cent as the luxury car market was hit by the global recession, but added it expected to sell more than 1.3 million autos this year. Group sales fell to 50.68 billion euros ($70.64 billion), according to a statement that provided provisional results. Final results are to be published on March 17, and should show the group achieved a pretax profit last year, it said.