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    Celebrating 20 years of production in the USA, Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW Group, today announced plans to invest US$ 1 billion in the company’s South Carolina plant: “We will expand the plant’s annual production capacity by 50% up to 450,000 vehicles by the end of 2016. Today’s capacity is around 300,000 vehicles. This investment will also create an additional 800 jobs, increasing the total workforce to 8,800 on site.”


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    Too bad they're building such a...limited market...vehicle there but the additional jobs and expansion within the USA is much needed and appreciated.
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    So they are now producing the X3, X4, X5 and X7 at this facility (every X series vehicle they will sell in the US). Neat.

    Just had a discussion with someone about the X7. A lot of articles seem to say its a competeitor to the Range Rover and Mercedes GL, but I dont think thats true. Those cars have existed for years and the X5 is a solid competitor to those models. I think the X7 is a reaction to Porsche's production of a lower-level SUV - the Macan, which is firmly in X5 territory. So BMW moved itself up to Cayenne territory with the X7.

    These German companies do this sort of back-and-forth all the time.

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