On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:14:10PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: > Cotty wrote: > > On 9/2/07, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > >> It's built by BMW and designed by BMW. Just by them in England. MINI is > >> just a BMW nameplate and BMW builds and designs in many places > >> (including the US). > > > > That's a computer talking. The people building the mini are mostly > > recruited and live locally. They are the same people who were building > > rover cars, and they are Brits. They wear overalls with BMW logos and > > they get paychecks with money from German banks. The cars are made by > > Brits. I've seen it. > > And if you buy a BMW X-Series, it was made in Georgia, USA. So? Still a > BMW factory and BMW design team.
The MINI is as much a BMW as the K10D is a Hoya camera. And while BMW might build X-Series cars in Georgia (and Z4s in N. Carolina, I believe) they were still designed in Germany; the BMW plants in the USA are just offshore manufacturing locations to save shipping costs. Not the same thing at all. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
