New BMW Manufacturing Plants
01-23-2006, 03:57 PM
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Interesting read in the latest BMW Magazine. They say that because India and China are the major up and coming markets that they have started building a manufacturing plant that will build the E60 and E90 cars.
I wonder will cars built in these plants be exported to US or Euro markets? And what will build quality be like?
I wonder will cars built in these plants be exported to US or Euro markets? And what will build quality be like?
01-23-2006, 04:23 PM
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They won't be exported to US. They're exclusively for local market. What they do is CKD (Complete Knocked Down) in which BMW import parts from Germany and assemble in China/India in order to get away from automotive import tax which is about 100 - 200%. Sometimes, it's even more to discourage importing cars due to traffic congestion.
01-24-2006, 03:12 PM
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That makes a lot of sense. I remember they startted building the E49 in South Africa and exporting to Europe and the cars quality was questionable.
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Originally Posted by mr_grinche' post='229053' date='Jan 24 2006, 05:12 PM
That makes a lot of sense. I remember they startted building the E49 in South Africa and exporting to Europe and the cars quality was questionable.
http://www.bmwplant.co.za/Content/frame_co...haf0gau02~4.htm
The SULEV E46's that came to the US market were all SA builds.
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I think I still feel more comfortable if my car came from a german factory
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i would be happy to buy a local assembled BMW if i got it $100k cheaper. My BMW 530i was $170k++ when i bought it in early 2006. If the car was CKD then it would have been less than $90k....so i would have lived with the lower build quality and buy a nicer M5 in my summer home in CA 
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