Where our babies are born
02-04-2005, 10:43 AM
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I thought you all may like to see where our E60 babies are born
BMW WERK DINGOLFING GERMANY
5 Series, 6 Series and 7 Series are made here
From BMW:
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Description of the BMW Dingolfing Plant.
Overall area of the Dingolfing Plant Approx 1.8 million square metres
Workforce Approx 23,000
Apprentices more than 800
Annual car production Approx 280,000 units
Production range 3, 5, 7 Series, M5, Z8 (painted body-in-white)
Payroll Euro 950 million in wages and salaries per year
Taxes paid by associates on wages and salaries
each year: Euro 180 million
Status: November 2002
BMW WERK DINGOLFING GERMANY
5 Series, 6 Series and 7 Series are made here
From BMW:
Key Data
Description of the BMW Dingolfing Plant.
Overall area of the Dingolfing Plant Approx 1.8 million square metres
Workforce Approx 23,000
Apprentices more than 800
Annual car production Approx 280,000 units
Production range 3, 5, 7 Series, M5, Z8 (painted body-in-white)
Payroll Euro 950 million in wages and salaries per year
Taxes paid by associates on wages and salaries
each year: Euro 180 million
Status: November 2002
02-04-2005, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by DXXXi' date='Feb 4 2005, 02:25 PM
Impressive.? I wonder how many of the cars in those parking lots are not BMWs.
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Only about maybe 20% are BMW's I would say. I visited Dingolfing last November and had a private tour (on a Tuesday) with Alexander Bachner. This is the guy who's featured in that DVD you get with the car.
There were so many scrap parts that seemed perfectly OK, but they have to discard. Don't bother asking, they will not give it to you.
One thing extra ordinary that I noticed is that they have piles and piles of beer cases with beer, along the production line. They say that's it's OK to drink a few beer during break. So don't be surprised if you find a bottle or two rattling inside your body panel.
Alexander told me a joke that the workers like to toss a random screw in the glove compartment, on the US bound cars, just to annoy the service technicians here in the US. If you find that random screw, just keep it as souvinier, and don't go running to your dealer demanding that they put it back.
02-04-2005, 01:26 PM
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02-04-2005, 02:08 PM
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I guess because it was only my brother, me and my uncle in the tour, plus it was snowing hard outside during my visit, so Alexander altered the usual tour route and I saw things that weren't supposed to be seen. But it was great fun visiting the factory.
02-04-2005, 02:31 PM
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The beer-thing is typicall for Bavaria. Beer is considered food in Bavaria. Anywhere else you get in trouble when you drink beer at work, even here in Germany. 
Website of the Dingolfing plant
BMW Group Website, about Dingolfing and other manufacturing sites
Website of the Dingolfing plant
BMW Group Website, about Dingolfing and other manufacturing sites
02-04-2005, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Iceman' date='Feb 4 2005, 05:31 PM
The beer-thing is typicall for Bavaria. Beer is considered food in Bavaria. Anywhere else you get in trouble when you drink beer at work, even here in Germany.?
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