Not just shipping costs, domestic content requirements, (for the US
Mexico and Canada), and labor costs, (non union labor is much less
expensive in the US than it is in Europe. Do you guys even have non
union labor?
John Francis wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:14:10PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote:
>
>> Cotty wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/2/07, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>>
>>>
>>>> It's built by BMW and designed by BMW. Just by them in England. MINI is
>>>> just a BMW nameplate and BMW builds and designs in many places
>>>> (including the US).
>>>>
>>> That's a computer talking. The people building the mini are mostly
>>> recruited and live locally. They are the same people who were building
>>> rover cars, and they are Brits. They wear overalls with BMW logos and
>>> they get paychecks with money from German banks. The cars are made by
>>> Brits. I've seen it.
>>>
>> And if you buy a BMW X-Series, it was made in Georgia, USA. So? Still a
>> BMW factory and BMW design team.
>>
>
> The MINI is as much a BMW as the K10D is a Hoya camera.
>
> And while BMW might build X-Series cars in Georgia (and Z4s in N. Carolina,
> I believe) they were still designed in Germany; the BMW plants in the USA
> are just offshore manufacturing locations to save shipping costs. Not the
> same thing at all.
>
>
>
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