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• Your motoring: Star spangled Bangle quits BMW..

  - 2009-02-08

  THE American car designer Chris Bangle, one of the most influential designers in recent automotive history, has announced that he is to leave his post as Chief of Design for the BMW Group. No details of where he is going are forthcoming but he has confirmed that he is leaving...

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• Magna to build MINI Sports Activity Vehicle for BMW Group.(Assembly Lines)

  - 2008-01-01

  AURORA, Ontario -- Canada-based Magna International Inc. has secured a contract to assemble the new MINI Sports Activity Vehicle SAV for BMW Group (Munich, Germany) at the Magna Steyr plant in Austria. The MINI SAV will be the second new vehicle produced by...

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• Personnel.(People)(Marco Saltalamacchia promoted)(Kia Motors Europe appoints Panu Vainamo)(Lear appoints Jim Brackenbury)

  - 2006-10-16

  BMW promotes Saltalamacchia Marco Saltalamacchia takes over sales and marketing for BMW group's Europe region effective January 1, 2007. The region - which accounts for 37 percent of BMW's total sales - includes all of Europe except Germany, which the company handles separately....

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• Show quotes.(News)(Norbert Reithofer of BMW AG)(Katsuaki Watanabe of Toyota Motor Corp.)(Brief article)

  - 2006-10-02

  "A BMW 7 series loaded like a Christmas tree comes at [euro]180,000. A Rolls Royce Phantom starts at [euro]380,000. In the middle, there is a gap at [euro]250,000 we will fill by the end of the decade with a new model which won't be a BMW." ...

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• The BMW Group registered sales of 44,335 million in the fiscal year ended December 31 2004.

  - 2006-04-06

  M2 PRESSWIRE-6 April 2006-Research and Markets: The BMW Group registered sales of 44,335 million in the fiscal year ended December 31 2004C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06042006 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c35398) has announced the addition of BMW AG 2006...

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• Best of the best

  - 2006-03-16

  GERMAN car manufacturer BMW looks set to be entrenched as number one among premium car manufacturers in Asia, if last year's sales figures and its expansion plans for 2006 are anything to go by. For the first time, the BMW Group has exceeded the magic mark of 100,000...

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• BMW Group bucks the market with record sales

  - 2006-01-17

  It's probably no great surprise, and it's particularly poignant in the year MG Rover met its end, but the former owner of our last volume car manufacturer, BMW Group, achieved record UK sales in 2005. There were more than 156,000 BMW and Mini registrations, an increase of 9 per cent...

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• BMW standardizes its FEA

  - 2006-01-01

  In efforts to improve the crashworthiness of its vehicles, BMW Group is standardizing on finite element analysis FEA software from ABAQUS, Inc. (Providence, RI; www.abaqus.com), a Dassault Systemes company. BMW has been working w software since 1986, when it deployed it for engine development (specifically, according to a paper, "Migration...

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• BMW Group's Chris Bangle Will Open Design Los Angeles Conference at LA Auto Show.

  - 2005-11-07

  LOS ANGELES, November 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Chris Bangle, BMW Group's chief of design, is known as much for his controversial and edgy automotive designs as he is for his imaginative and refreshing approach to the age of automotive reinvention. Bangle will provide an...

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• BMW names new head of technology office.(Bernardo Lopez, BMW Group Technology Office )(Brief Article)

  - 2005-07-25

  Dr. Bernardo Lopez has been tapped to head the BMW Group Technology Office in Palo Alto, Calif. The move was effective July 1, 2005. The BMW Group Technology Office was founded in 1998 to identify and investigate technologies in non-automotive fields that...

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