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The first hybrid BMW was the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7, and BMW's first electric car was the BMW i3 city car, which was released in 2013. After many years of establishing a reputation for sporting rear-wheel drive cars, BMW's first front-wheel drive car was the 2014 BMW 2 Series Active Tourer multi-purpose vehicle (MPV).
Three unique models that BMW Motorsport created for the South African market were the E23 M745i (1983), which used the M88 engine from the BMW M1, the BMW 333i (1986), which added a six-cylinder 3.2-litre M30 engine to the E30, [133] and the E30 BMW 325is (1989) which was powered by an Alpina-derived 2.7-litre engine.
The BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC, also known as BMW Spartanburg, is the BMW Group's only assembly facility in the United States, and is located in Greer, South Carolina. [11] The plant is currently BMW's major global production site for the X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, and XM crossover SUVs, [ 12 ] whose biggest market is the U.S., while other BMW models ...
It also owned about 10% of car company Daimler-Benz and about 30% of BMW. The conglomerate was then divided between his two surviving sons: Herbert and Harald Quandt, who was Herbert's half brother. [10] BMW was an ailing company and in 1959 its management suggested selling the whole concern to Daimler-Benz.
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The company scrapped a 30-year-old labor agreement in September, which opened the way for layoffs, while it has also proposed closing factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history.
Krüger grew up in the city of Braunschweig.His mother was a teacher and his father a doctor of physics. [5] After graduating from the Hoffmann von Fallersleben School in 1984, he studied mechanical engineering at the Braunschweig University of Technology [6] (undergraduate studies) and RWTH Aachen University (main studies) and in 1991 passed his exams (mechanical engineering).