Featured hybrid BMW 5 Series at Austrian contract plant

Source: Magna to build new hybrid BMW 5-Series at Austrian contract manufacturing plant - Canadian Manufacturing

SAILAUF, Germany—German luxury carmaker BMW has contracted Canadian auto parts company Magna International Inc. to build its new 5-Series plug-in hybrid.

The Aurora, Ont.-based company will assemble the new BMW 530e at its plant in Graz, Austria—a contract manufacturing facility where it’s previously built a number of vehicles, including the BMW X3 and Mini Paceman.

The 5-Series will become the Graz plant’s second electrified car program after Magna won a contract to produce Jaguar’s new I-Pace at the site last year.​

Interesting approach, contracting out the manufacturing. Almost sounds like Apple but in this case:

• German engineering
• Canadian administration
• Austrian manufacture

Quite a change from more parochial approaches.

Bob Wilson