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Good things come in threes: BMW Group Plant Leipzig produces its 3,333,333rd vehicle
17.02.2023
Good things come in threes: BMW Group Plant Leipzig produces its 3,333,333rd vehicle

+++ Milestone vehicle is a BMW 128ti +++ Next milestone could be a MINI +++

In numerology the number three is said to have a special significance: it’s often associated with luck, success, diversity and creativity. So BMW Group Plant Leipzig’s latest accomplishment – which involves not one but seven threes – must be a seven-fold success! Leipzig has now produced its 3,333,333rd customer car since going on stream in 2005.

Of the three models currently rolling off the Leipzig production lines – the BMW 1 Series, BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe and BMW 2 Series Active Tourer – it was a BMW 1 Series that was to mark this quirky milestone. The BMW 128ti* was in Melbourne Red metallic with black accents. With its striking interior and exterior features, this sporty model has been in production since last November and is manufactured exclusively at Plant Leipzig. Under the bonnet nestles a 2.0-litre engine with BMW TwinPower Turbo technology and delivering 195 kW (265hp). The powerpack of a car marks the revival of an old BMW tradition: since the 1960s the abbreviation “TI” – later “ti” – has stood for “Turismo Internazionale” and is a hallmark of especially sporty models. Examples include the iconic BMW 1800 TI and BMW 2002 TI, and the BMW 323ti Compact and BMW 325ti Compact of the late 1990s.

The red BMW 128ti compact sports car is the latest in a string of special milestone vehicles made at BMW Plant Leipzig. The first was a BMW 320i in March 2005, the inaugural “BMW made in Leipzig”. Six years later, in December 2011, came a BMW 116d in Alpine White, Leipzig’s one-millionth car. In October 2016 came the two-millionth, a BMW i3 in Protonic Blue. And in 2021 a BMW M240i Convertible in Sunset Orange was celebrated as the three-millionth car to roll off the lines at BMW Plant Leipzig.

The next milestone vehicle will be Leipzig’s 4,000,000th and either a BMW or a MINI, as the Leipzig vehicle family welcomes new addition this year: the new MINI Countryman. The arrival of the newcomer will make it the first BMW Group plant worldwide to manufacture BMW as well as MINI vehicles.

The integration of the MINI Countryman is proof yet again of the sheer flexibility of BMW Group Plant Leipzig, whose product portfolio will soon number four different models: the BMW 1 Series, BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe, BMW 2 Series Active Tourer and the MINI Countryman. All of them will be made on a single production line – with a choice of three different types of drive: combustion engine, plug-in hybrid and fully electric.

To make this possible, production capacity at Leipzig has steadily increased since the plant went on stream 18 years ago. It now can now produce up to 350,000 cars a year – compared with approx. 54,000 in its first year of production.

 

All BMW Models made by BMW Group Plant Leipzig

Model

Production period

Quantity

BMW 3 Series Sedan E90

2005 - 2007

333.427

BMW 1 Series three door E81

2007 - 2011

187.263

BMW 1 Series Coupé E82

2007 - 2013

130.205

BMW 1 Series Convertible E88

2008 - 2011

131.664

BMW X1 E84

2009 - 2015

635.194

BMW 1Series M Coupé E82

2011 - 2012

6.342

BMW 1 Series five door F20

2012 - 2015

424.111

BMW 2 Series Coupé F22

2015 - 2021

165.224

BMW i3 i01

2013 - 2022

250.271

BMW i8 i12

2013 - 2020

16.581

BMW i8 Roadster i15

2018 - 2020

3.884

BMW 2er Active Tourer F45

2014 - 2021

368.503

BMW 2 Series Convertible F23

2014 - 2021

119.092

BMW M2 F87

2015 - 2021

61.856

BMW 1 Series five door F40

2019 - *

305.467

BMW 2 Series Gran Coupé F44

2020 - *

160.578
BMW 2 Series Active Tourer U06 2021 - * 33.671

* As of 02/2023

CO2 EMISSIONS & CONSUMPTION.

*Electricity consumption and range: BMW 128ti: Fuel consumption combined: 7,4 – 6,8 l/100 km as per WLTP; CO2 emissions combined: 170 – 156 g/km as per WLTP.

Press Contact

Kai Lichte

Head of Corporate and Associate Communication
BMW Group Plant Leipzig, Berlin, Eisenach

+49 341 445-38000