Production was down 6% in 2024 after a 12% increase in 2023. It was in 2015 that production in Germany dropped below 50% of the BMW Group total and it hasn't returned there since. In fact, it dropped each year thereafter until 2021 when it reached 31%.
Since then it has moved back toward Germany, now at 43%. The current German production figure of 1.087 million is among the highest. Yet if the total volume is down 6%, where was the reduced volume felt? The answer is virtually everywhere else.
I would have thought China's 5% fall was a good result in view of the depressed economy there but I wonder whether profit was affected in achieving that. MINI production in the UK was down 40% which was much more than I expected. It will be better in 2025 but by how much will be interesting.
MINI production was transferred from the Netherlands to Germany which accounts for the slump in the Netherlands and some of the gain at home. The Z4 is made in Austria and that had a heavy reduction in volume.
I don't know what is made at partner plants but it could be many models if they are from kits. They are located in China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Data & photograph: BMW Group.
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