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BMW, like many other upscale manufacturers, has a certain US package, that includes leather, sunroof, donut tire, auto windows, locks, no small engines... They need to keep the money appeal, so when you order things a la carte, you need to add many things that are normally pre-packaged for the US.
I have a Diplomatic sales brochure for the X5 (more of a flyer, than a brochure), that specifies everything that you can stick in it, from cloth seats, to individual leather... The beauty of the dip sales that you can specify multi-country spec car... as long as the specs are not mutually exclusive, say in the US you can have red or amber tail lights, but in EU only amber, then your tail lights will be amber, in US you must have yellow in the front, so there will be a yellow reflector or amber turn signals... but you can stick other little things that the factory will allow...
Oh, and if that model is assembled in the host country, say from knock down kits, in China, or in Kaliningrad in Russia, your dip sale car will be assembled at the main plant in Germany, or South Carolina, or whatever main plant for that model is...
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