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Originally Posted by Curious Joel
I was reading this month's copy of Roundel and there was an article on the new Leipzig plant. There's a list of all the BMW Group factories and what they produce. It says the plants in Kalingrad, Russia; Cairo, Egypt; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, produce "Completely Knocked Down 3-series, 5 series." What does that mean? Also, what is a 5-series "authority" model?
And this has nothing to do with the other thing, but why doesn't BMW bring BMW Individual to the USA?
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I believe that the "knocked down" cars are built or partially built in Europe, then packed up and shipped to those other countries for reassembly.
I think the "Authority" model is an armoured version.