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Originally Posted by Walee
So you think BMW made in SA are better built quality than the ones made in US and Germany? After all there are more tests in place than US and Germany? Cheap labour perhaps to do all this?
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Labour is not cheaper, steel may be. BMW are hedging their factories against supply or other problems in specific world areas. Shipping is also easier to certain parts of the world.
The South African plant usually wins the annual quality award.
part of it may be that the plant runs slower thus has more time to make sure everything is correct.
In recent years only Leipzig beat the SA factory the year they opened the E90 plant there for a while.