Earlier today, BMW said that it has moved some engine output from Britain due to Brexit. Britain is due to leave the bloc on Oct. 31. British engines were being sent to South Africa, where BMW currently builds the X3 car, but they would no longer have EU status and the cars would lose their tax-free import status into Europe, production chief Oliver Zipse said on Tuesday.
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“Hams Hall (engine plant) doesn’t build any South Africa products anymore, which is of course, bad for the UK,” said Zipse, who is the frontrunner to be the firm’s new chief executive according to sources. “It’s not a huge amount,” he added.
BMW has built petrol engines at its Hams Hall plant in Coleshill for use in several factories around the world since 2001.
A BMW spokesman said the decision has not resulted in a cut to the total number of engines being made at Hams Hall – which stood at 377,000 in 2018 – as production for engines to be used in the US has increased.
Free trade agreements also often require a minimum amount of local content at around 55 to 60 percent with British components counted alongside other European Union parts at present.
[Source: Yahoo]
Because one CANNOT build engines without the EU and it’s marxism… what tikkity boo-rubbish
How is the EU “Marxist”, pray tell? A lot of that drivel flies about yet none of you guys manage to explain how and why you make those claims. Kindly provide more info, pls.
Their kind doesn’t use logic or reasoning. It’s just a game of rhetorical oneupmanship to get likes from their fellow dregs.
What for? You wouldn´t understand it anyway….
Typical.
They can’t, attitude only, no knowledge. Didn’t realize the Dutch & Irish were Marxist, guess that’s why their pot & beer are so good! OP is funny, actually, guess he doesn’t realize Britain killed their own industry in the last century, it’s been on foreign-owned life support for decades, BMW alone saved MINI, Rolls, Range Rover. If Britain still has National Health, doesn’t that make them Marxist? Maybe he means Groucho. And John: Marxist-Lennonist.
It is better for Bmw to move all engine plants, including RR and Mini from England to Bavaria and South Africa, becauce shortly after the Brexit the English economy will collapse. England will be bankrupt and finally financially ruined, it will hit England harder than the EU and England will become the poorest country in Europe. After the next global financial crisis and the next global conflict between two world powers from west and east, which will start in the middle east first and spread over worldwide, the southern part of England will be taken by the floods and sink in the sea in the end, according to my sources, which will take place in near future. That what was, will be no more.
Don’t be so sure about South Africa. Overall the country not in great shape at the moment.
Not at the moment, but in the future it will be the country of the future world and even surpass the USA in economy and industry, with even bigger factories than in Europe and the USA.
A classic comment written by someone who might be a reader of the UK tabloids. Comments like this make leave supporters sound like numpties. And I voted leave. The article says that there is no reduction in the number of engines made here due to supply to the US market, so not sure what the Marxism comment has to do with it.
Unfortunately, you cannot see the difference between “it’s” and “its”, let alone provide any links to your claims.
Supporters of “leave” should get their heads examined….quickly….
Where was this statement made? Was it an official press release from BMW?