BMW Forced To Stop Production in China and South Africa Because of Supplier
29 May 2017, 12:35 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / An unspecified supplier for BMW has managed to disrupt production in several facilities of the German automaker due to a shortage of available parts
BMW’s South African Plant Will Be Partially Powered by Manure
19 Oct 2015, 14:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW will be buying electricity made from biogas from a facility nearby that uses up to 160 tons of manure a day for its production needs
BMW’s South African Plant Celebrates 1 Millionth Car Built
27 Feb 2015, 10:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Plant Rosslyn was the BMW Group’s first foreign plant in 1973 and has grown to become a key link in its global production network
South African BMW Meet for Charity Results in Impressive Shoot on Airfield
15 Jul 2014, 17:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Back in June, a couple of BMW enthusiasts, part of the Bimmer community in South Africa, got together on an empty airfield to raise some money for charity and have some fun. The resulting photo shoo...
Johannesburg BMW Summerfest Pics Will Make You Drool
22 Apr 2014, 18:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / When you have a BMW factory in your country and you’re not German, there are plenty of reasons to rejoice. Leaving behind the obvious ‘economic’ reasons like jobs, stability and ot...
BMW Club Goes for Ice Cream in Johannesburg
13 Feb 2014, 14:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / There’s a huge BMW fan club in Johannesburg these days and when one of the members gets a sudden craving for Ice Cream, the others feel kind-of obliged to join in. That’s the pretext ...
BMW Holds Off Investments in South Africa after Labor Strikes
7 Oct 2013, 12:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Things are getting really serious in South Africa after almost two months of strikes and protests coming from labor syndicates. BMW alongside Toyota and Volkswagen had their factories closed for thr...
BMW Production Stalled by Strike in South Africa
15 Aug 2013, 14:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / At the moment, BMW has production plants in South Africa, United States, India, China, Japan, Canada and Egypt. The first one is actually one of the oldest, being founded in 1968. Located in Ross...
BMW E82 1M Coupe Has M Sport Stripes in South Africa. Again.
29 May 2013, 12:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The M Sport stripes hype is starting to show everywhere on the globe recently. A while back we showed you a striped 1M Coupe from Canada and before that is was the same story in South Africa. Now...
South Africa to Receive New Entry-Level BMW 3 Series
9 Apr 2013, 15:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It's been a while since South African 3 Series models had the 316i badge on the boot. The last time it happened was on the back of the E36 models, before the introduction of the E46 back in 199...
BMW Leaves Audi Behind in 2013 BSPC Season Opener
4 Apr 2013, 12:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW Team Afrox/ADF Motorsport started the 2013 Bridgestione Super Production Car season in an encouraging way. Their F30 3ers took down a whole bunch of Audis in the season opener, last month. Th...
BMW F10 M5 Takes a Serious Tumble in South Africa
21 Mar 2013, 14:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Every once in a while we get to see wrecked high-performance cars. However, the faster these cars go, the bigger the damage is in case of an accident, as it happened with the F10 M5 that we're ...