BMW built more than 1m cars in Germany last year

BMW built more than 1 million cars in Germany in 2025 or around 25% of the country's total car production, the Munich-based company announced on Wednesday, reported dpa.

Overall, there were 4.15 million passenger cars built in Germany last year, the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) reported on Tuesday.

This means that 40% of the cars built by BMW worldwide are likely to come from Germany. The company has not yet released exact figures, but in 2024 the share was around 43%.

In Germany, BMW builds cars in Munich, Regensburg, Dingolfing and Leipzig. Most of them are destined for the European region.

The company has not yet released any figures on the current distribution, but in 2024 Regensburg had the highest production volume among the German plants with 343,000 cars, ahead of Dingolfing with 298,000, Leipzig with 246,000 and Munich with 201,000.

The distribution last year is likely to have been roughly similar. This means that just under a third of the cars produced by the BMW Group, which also includes Mini and Rolls-Royce, come from Bavaria.

BMW builds vehicles with combustion engines, plug-in hybrids and fully electric drives on one production line at all four German plants.

The Bavarian plants exclusively build vehicles for the core brand, while the Leipzig plant also manufactures the Mini Countryman in addition to BMW models.

However, the company's largest plant is located abroad. In 2024, it was in Spartanburg, South Carolina in the south-eastern United States, where 396,000 vehicles were produced.

"Our plants impressively demonstrate how competitive industry in Germany is," said BMW's chief production officer and designated chief executive Milan Nedeljković. "More than a million vehicles produced are over a million good arguments for Germany's innovative strength," he added.