Award winning dealer principal Andrew Hulcoop has joined the management team of Damon Hill's Midlands dealership.
BMW has been granted local authority approval to build a new £60 million home for Rolls-Royce close to the old Goodwood motor racing circuit in West Sussex.
##Cooper--left## BMW says the aim of the designers of the new Mini was to “capture the heart and soul” of the original while using the latest technology, firmly placing the car in the 21st century.
MG Rover has confirmed it is to take control of the Powertrain plant in Longbridge from BMW, enabling the company to produce its own engines as well as supply them to other companies.
BMW says it has drawn a line under its financial involvement with Rover, which cost it £2.5 billion and involved losses of £471m.
BMW has reported record profits for the first quarter of 2001.
MG Rover has postponed its announcement on the financial state of the company one year after it gained its independence from BMW.
##Minibadge--left## Volume production of the Mini One and Mini Cooper begins today at BMW Group's Oxford plant on schedule for a UK launch in July and a European launch in September.
BMW has launched of a full range of 5 Series Sport Touring models with specification levels based on the SE equivalent of each model, but with a host of additional equipment.
Two statistics sum-up BMW's ill-fated attempt to make Rover the supporting brand it believed it needed to raise group car sales and become a global automotive force.
BMW GB has already sold this year's allocation of the all-new M3, on sale from this month.
A unique British-built engine is set to drive a bid to win a greater share of the market for BMW.
The new Mini from BMW will be priced from £10,300 OTR when it goes on sale on July 7.
Once upon a time having a Mercedes-Benz C-class or BMW 3-series showed you had made it in the junior executive ranks and were on your way up the corporate ladder.
Softlab Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW Group, has sold its UK automotive OEM software, systems integration and services business to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
BMW stole Jaguar's lead in the latest biannual RMI Dealer Attitude Survey, but Chrysler took a hammering from its Jeep dealers.
Former Ryland Group director Nick Whale this week said Damon Hill's new BMW dealership would remain outside his group “for now”.
Toyota and BMW are to encourage dealers to use HPI's GoldCheck and National Mileage Register as part of their approved used car programmes. Twenty-eight manufacturers now approve access to HPI's services.
Prices of Mercedes-Benz cars in the UK will rise by an average of 1.73% from April 2 due to “inflationary pressures”. The new C-class Sports Coupe, a direct rival for the forthcoming BMW 3 Series Compact, goes on sale from May 17 priced from £20,290. That buys the C180; the C200 Kompressor is £21,790, C230K £23,250 and C220 CDI £22,825.
BMW enjoyed its best financial performance ever in 2000 built on a determination to develop its standing in the premium sector and despite have to absorb £500m losses from the Rover Group prior to its sale in May.