The BMW Group is a producing juggernaut working 33 factories producing automobiles and engines worldwide. If we’re speaking strictly about car meeting, Plant Spartanburg was probably the most prolific website in 2024. It produced 396,117 SUVs, as small because the X3 and as massive because the X7 and XM. The “Residence of the X” was additionally the most important automotive exporter in america, recording an export worth of over $10 billion.
2023’s best automotive manufacturing facility within the BMW Group community, the Dadong plant in China, needed to accept second place final yr. It’s the place the long-wheelbase X5 is assembled alongside the 5 Sequence and the X3, which even have an elongated wheelbase. Moreover, it’s the place the iX3 is solely constructed. Nevertheless, the CLAR-based electrical crossover might be retired within the second quarter of the yr.
Regensburg occupied the final place on the rostrum, with the German plant virtually tying Dadong for second place. Simply 1,452 automobiles separated the 2 factories. Within the metropolis in jap Bavaria, BMW assembles the X1 and X2 compact crossovers. As many as 1,400 items are manufactured in Regensburg every day.
Though the Debrecen website is already listed, the brand new Hungarian manufacturing facility solely assembled prototypes in 2024. Sequence manufacturing of the second-generation iX3 (Neue Klasse) gained’t begin till late this yr. Extra fashions, presumably the rumored iX4, will possible be constructed there later this decade.
The BMW Group additionally included factories operated by companions, akin to Magna Steyr’s plant in Steyr. It’s the place the Z4 rolls off the meeting line, though its days are numbered. The final roadster will allegedly be made in March 2026.
VDL Nedcar’s plant in Born, The Netherlands, can also be listed. Nevertheless, manufacturing of the previous-generation MINI Countryman and MINI Cooper Cabrio resulted in February 2024. The brand new-generation fashions are made in-house, particularly in Leipzig and Oxford, respectively.
If Highlight doesn’t ring a bell, it’s a three way partnership between the BMW Group and Nice Wall Motor. It operates a newly constructed plant in Zhangjiagang, the place the electrical MINI Cooper 3-Door and Aceman are solely manufactured. BMW had deliberate to construct the 2 EVs within the UK as properly from 2026, however manufacturing has been delayed indefinitely.
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