SUV demand key to BMW’s Spartanburg investment

04/08/2015
Automotive group BMW has said its plant at Spartanburg, South Carolina, will be the company’s biggest when a $1 billion expansion programme ends in 2016.

In a speech on August 4, BMW chairman, Harald Krüger, said that by the end of 2016, the group will be able to produce more than 450,000 vehicles per year at the US site.

Mr Krüger went on to make the point that the expansion is also a response to the continuing trend towards SUVs. “At present, the X lineup accounts for almost one in three BMWs sold,” he said.