BMW Manufacturing announced it achieved a milestone earlier this month with production of its five millionth vehicle built in the United States.
The historic vehicle was a Toronto Red metallic X5 M Competition SUV with the 617hp M TwinPower Turbo V8 engine, Silverstone full merino leather interior and 21/22-inch M Star-spoke bi-colour wheels.
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The X5 will remain at the Spartanburg, South Carolina factory and become part of BMW's historic collection.
Spatanbutg is BMW's sole X5 plant.
"More than half of the vehicles we sell in the US are built here so we cannot overstate the importance of Plant Spartanburg to our sales network," said BMW of North America president and CEO Bernhard Kuhnt.
"BMW Group has long considered the US to be our second home and we are proud to say that [it] is in fact home to the biggest BMW plant in the world."
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By GlobalDataThe plant also celebrated two important milestones in 2019 – 25 years of production and a record year of 411,620 vehicles built. Plant Spartanburg also shipped the most automotive exports by value for a sixth consecutive year with a total value of US$9.6bn.
Nearly 70% of the plant's total production was exported from 2010 – 2019.
Over the years, through continuous investment which now totals more than $10.6 billion, the factory has been expanded six times to more than 7m square feet.
It employs 11,000 people who build X3, X4, X5, X6 and X7 crossovers and SUVs for all markets worldwide.
