Attention Southern California BMW dealers! Stock up on BMX X5 and Mini Cooper's! BMW, the globe's biggest maker of luxury cars, said sales increased seven % last month as clients purchased new models of the X5 SUV and the Mini.

Sales rose to almost one hundred thirty thousand automobiles and SUVs in May, BMW said today. BMW sales rose almost six percent percent from 2006 to over one hundred nine thousand cars, while Mini sales spiked fourteen percent to almost twenty thousand autos.