[BMWGirlFL]

Originally Posted by chassis

What drove the doubling of sales in 1970 vs. a few years earlier? There was also a corresponding increase in capital investment.

Did the BMW board make a grand decision to significantly increase sales, or was something else going on in the German/European/global economy at that time, which had the effect of pushing up BMW sales?

Clues here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_New_Class