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BMW Is Hooked on Credit
Cheap finance is powering the premium carmaker, for now
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BMW sales reached a record in 2015 but it's hard to be too comfortable about how it's "selling" all those cars.
Some 46.3 percent of BMW vehicles were either leased or financed by its in-house financial services division in 2015. That's 4.5 percentage points higher than the year before.