BMW starts production at its first vehicle plant in South America  [ Brazil ]

The BMW Group celebrated the first car to be assembled in its new South American automobile plant in Araquari, Santa Catarina on October 9.The new plant covers an area of about 1.5 million square meters of which 500,000 paved square meters will be used for production. All construction on the production site is due to be completed by September 2015, by which time the site will comprise also a bo...