Currently reading: BMW warns of big profit fall as China buyers turn backs on ICE

Overall Chinese market is expected to drop 14% this year and buyers are moving to domestically built EVs

BMW has sharply lowered its profit target for the year and warned of write-downs on plummeting China sales and the fallout from the Middle East conflict.

Sales of BMW models have taken an unexpectedly big hit in China this year amid a wider market slowdown that has disproportionally affected combustion-engine-reliant European premium makers.