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Best Motor Works is a maker of high$-$end automobiles. Their revenues in the most recent fiscal year were $$5,300$ million Euros and they spent $$1,400$ million Euros on non$-$marketing related fixed costs. Their average variable cost per vehicle was $$16,200$ Euros per vehicle. Fixed marketing costs totaled $$720$ million Euros. The company had planned to achieve a net marketing contribution of $$2,600$ million Euros, and their actual fixed marketing expenditures were only $93\%$ percent of their planned marketing expenditures. They also achieved an average margin of $37\%$ percent per vehicle in the most recent fiscal year which was $2$ percentage points higher than planned. The company also reported that their actual price was the same as their planned price.

Given the following, What is the marketing expenditures variance $($in millions of Euros$)?$

nmcvar $=$ $$-1,359$

ni $=$ $$-159$

nmc $=$ $$1,241$

grmargin $=$ $$1,961$

unitsales $=206,113$

avgprice $=$ $$25,714$