Partially with Cheap Spare Parts: Russia Simply Continues to Build BMW Models without Permission
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BMW has already left Russia in 2022. Nevertheless, SUVs of the brand are still being installed there – and even the new X5 can apparently already be ordered.
Representatives of the German company told Bild journalists that production of their cars is continuing in Kaliningrad by their former Russian partner, Avtotor. However, they do not have German consent for this activity. BMW X5, X6, and X7 SUVs in Kaliningrad. As reported by Bild, Avtotor resumed assembly of BMW X5, X6, and X7 SUVs earlier this year, using component inventories left over from 2022, when BMW suspended operations in Russia due to …
The German manufacturer BMW claims that the SUVs bearing its brand continue to be assembled in Russia, without the company's consent, at the Avtotor plant in Kaliningrad. The manufacturer warns that the vehicles, manufactured from spare parts stocks after BMW's withdrawal from Russia in 2022, were not certified and do not meet the quality standards of the brand.
One of the largest car manufacturers in Europe accuses his former partner in Russia of assembling his SUVs without authorization, using old inventory of components. The company warns that vehicles no longer meet its quality standards.
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