Bavarian Mortor Works (BMW)

Before Lana and I flew back to the USA, we took a tour of the Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) plant. The BMW headquarters is just to the north of downtown Munich, near the Olympic complex from 1972. It was a very interesting tour showing how the BMW 3 series is made from start to finish...back in 2001, our BMW was made at the same plant. The tour started with the parts section, then moved to parts assembly. There are over 600 robots in the assembly section alone putting the different parts together...it's felt as though we were in a terminator movie of some kind with sparks flying around as the robot moved and welded.

From there we moved into the paint section, door assembly, drive train and finally the final assembly belt. There are 900 cars rolling off the assembly line each day, taking 39-40 hours each to build. Sadly, we weren't able to take any pictures during the tour, but the pictures you see are from BMW World...I think I'm sold on BMW for life!