Plunging Gas Prices Not Cause Of Plunging MINI Sales

Ward's Auto discusses the 16% plunge in MINI sales in 2014. It says, in part:

Some linked the brand’s tumbling sales to falling gas prices and too many variants of similar models, but David Duncan, vice president-Mini of the Americas, lays the blame on one thing: lack of availability of the new Mini Hardtop, its best-selling model.