To the extent that historical press releases reference BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC as the manufacturer of certain X model vehicles, the referenced vehicles are manufactured in South Carolina with a combination of U.S. origin and imported parts and components.
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MAKING WAY FOR THE NEW X5 - THE LAST OF THE FIRST GENERATION X5 MANUFACTURED
Fri Sep 22 16:00:00 CEST 2006 Press Release
The last of the first-generation X5 Sports Activity Vehicle was produced Friday at BMW Manufacturing Co. in Upstate South Carolina, making way for the production of the next generation X5.
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The last of the first-generation X5 Sports Activity Vehicle was produced Friday
at BMW Manufacturing Co. in Upstate South Carolina, making way for the
production of the next generation X5.
The Toledo Blue 3.0is X5 sports a Truffle Brown leather interior with a Dark
Grain Poplar wood trim. Due to its significance to BMW, the factory will keep
the vehicle and display it in the Zentrum museum as part of the BMW Mobile
Tradition Collection.
With the introduction of the X5, BMW opened a new market segment known as the
Sports Activity Vehicle and the X5 as the first sports activity vehicle
combined the powerful acceleration and exceptional handling of a car with the
advanced traction technologies and all-wheel drive of an SUV.
The first X5 sports activity vehicle rolled off the production line on
September 1, 1999. The X5 is built exclusively at BMW Manufacturing for
distribution to more than 120 markets worldwide. Less than two years after its
introduction, the 100,000th X5 milestone was reached on August 23, 2001 and on
June 9, 2005, and the 500,000th X5 was produced, just five and a half years
after its market introduction. The Spartanburg plant has produced 616,867 of
the current generation of X5 Sports Activity Vehicle.
In 2000, the X5 was rated "Best Pick" by the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety, outperforming all other SUVs tested. The X5 not only rated higher than
other SUVs, it earned a higher rating than all other vehicles previously tested
by the Institute.
BMW Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of the BMW Group based in Munich, Germany,
is the exclusive manufacturer on the Z4 and M Roadster, Z4 and M Coupe and the
X5 Sports Activity Vehicle. Its website address is www.bmwusfactory.com. In
addition to the South Carolina manufacturing facility, BMW's North American
subsidiaries include sales, marketing and financial services operations in the
United States, Canada and throughout Latin America, and a design firm in
California.