Today in luxury marketing:
BMW confident of keeping luxury car sales crown
BMW, the world's biggest-selling premium auto maker, brought forward its long-term target by four years to reflect robust emerging markets, intensifying rivalry with its more profitable peer Audi, according to Reuters.
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