By the appears of it, BMW is feeling beneficiant today. Days after donating an iX to a vocational college in Nabburg, it’s handing over the keys to a different electrical crossover. This time, a MINI Countryman SE ALL4 will assist the Municipal Vocational College for Metalworking and Automotive Engineering in Regensburg.
Whereas the iX was valued at about €91,000the primary electrical crossover from MINI is predictably cheaper. However, it’s nonetheless value a big €64,000 on this configuration. Judging by the small print, it seems to be a top-of-the-line John Cooper Works Trim. Automobile values apart, what issues essentially the most is that it’s all for trigger. The car will play a key function in sensible vocational coaching programs, serving to college students put together for his or her future careers.
Though the handover occasion was organized by BMW Group Plant Regensburgthe EV wasn’t really constructed there. This third-generation mannequin is assembled in Leipzig. Its predecessors, nonetheless, had been outsourced: the second-generation Countryman was produced by VDL Nedcar in Born, the Netherlands, whereas the unique mannequin got here from Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria.
Whereas these had been the principle manufacturing websites, localized manufacturing additionally came about in markets resembling India, Indonesia, Brazil, Thailand, and Malaysia. Likewise, the present “U25” mannequin can also be assembled in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
In the meantime, BMW’s Regensburg plant stays busy with different fashions, particularly the X1 and X2, together with their electrical variants. It produced 342,521 autos in 2024, marking a large 43.7% improve over the earlier yr. Regensburg was really the third best plant in BMW’s international community final yr, trailing solely Dadong (China) with 343,973 items and Spartanburg (USA) with 396,117 SUVs.
BMW has already introduced plans to fabricate a Neue Klasse EV and Regensburgalthough it hasn’t revealed which one. All indicators level to both the i1 hatchback or the i2 sedan getting into manufacturing there round 2028, however we’ll have to attend for official affirmation.
Pictures: BMW Germany
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