BMW’s Chinese partner Brilliance is to launch a BMW X1 lookalike at the Shanghai Motor Show in April – the Brilliance A3 The easy headline would be ‘Brilliance A3 – BMW X1 Clone’. But that would be a little unfair to Brilliance. Western car makers – as we’ve mentioned many times before – are compelled […]
BMW 5 Series Electric for China
BMW and Chinese parter Brilliance are reported to be building an electric 5 Series based on the 5 Series EfficientDynamics Hybrid. BMW are pushing ahead with hybrids across their range, and the 5 Series hybrid was shown at the Geneva Motor Show last year. But it now seems as if BMW are going a step […]
BMW X1 – Made in China
With expanded capacity coming on line in China, BMW are to start production of the BMW X1 in Shenyang for the China market. We reported in November that BMW, together with its Chinese partner Brilliance, was planning a new factory in China to produce an extra 100,000 BMWs a year by 2012, and was looking to […]
BMW invests £450 million in China
BMW and its Chinese partner Brilliance are to invest up to £450 million to build a new plant in China and extend the BMW range. The car market in China is seen as the big future for car makers. Rising at a tremendous rate (up 75% this year) China is a place car makers need […]