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Originally Posted by pmeloche
BMW may also be interested in an engine production plant in the U.S. With the U.S. dollar kept low by the U.S. government it's getting extremely difficult for BMW to keep car prices low in North America, their biggest market for many models. The solution would be to build more and more models in the U.S, or at least major components. Their wildly popular X3, X5, and X6 is very profitable to them because they are built in South Carolina at U.S. costs and then sold at European prices but they still have a lot of non-U.S. components namely engines and drivetrain. Now if they could make engines in the U.S. and start a production plant for the 3 Series in the U.S. also that would be awesome for them.  |
And awesome for the US economy too.
It would great if BMW started building more of their cars here, and even better if the major components like the engine, and higher end automatics and DCT's, and MT's were sourced/built by US companies.
It brings more dollars into the US economy. US employees would be spending their income in the US, there would be additional tax revenues from income and products bought, as well as additional tax dollars from BMW. Sure, BMW would be getting a big chunk of profit, but there would be more money brought into the US, and that's always a good thing for us.
If that happens then buying a BMW would be, buying American.
