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Are the X6's on sale yet? I've seen a few of them around town. They're pretty bad-ass.]]>Mar 7th 2008 1:58AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/Mar 6th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/
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In any case, I'd think this expansion would allow the price of BMWs I think sell well to remain relatively constant oppose to the ever dropping dollar which would lead to increasing costs for these automobiles.]]>Mar 6th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/Mar 6th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/

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Hell with the weak dollar even the French are building here. Freighter versions of the Airbus A330 are coming to the South as a result of the A330 MRTT winning the KC-45 contract.]]>Mar 6th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/Notice all these new opportunities are going to the south...and not the anti-business climate of Michigan and Ohio. Maybe those states should look to become more like Alabama, TX, and SC and worry less about making NAFTA a scapegoat.]]>Mar 6th 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/The largest private owner of EADS with 15% is Daimler AG (yes Mercedes!) The largest part of the EADS stocks are private owned .. only 15% of the stocks are in the hand of the frensh government.
The HQ of EDAS is in Munic, Paris and the Netherlands..

Airbus is a subdivision of EADS
The HQ of Airbus is in Touluse France, the main plant and delivery center of Airbus is in Hamburg Germany..]]>Mar 6th 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/Mar 6th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/Mar 6th 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/
As for the Research Triangle in NC, yes I am familiar with it as I travel there several times a year, but as you say, it has little to do with the automotive industry.

Down in South Carolina, the area around the BMW and Michelin plants is growing into a nice center of excellence, with IBM and Clemson U getting involved in developing the infrastructure as well, but it's a tiny fraction of what you would find in Michigan. And, aside from the motorsports program at Clemson, there isn't a huge link to the mainstream of America's racing industry.

So what's the issue again? I'm not slamming the Carolinas, just setting the record straight on where American motorsports was "born".]]>Mar 6th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/]]>Mar 6th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/Mar 6th 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/06/bmw-to-announce-u-s-spartanburg-plant-expansion/
At $1.50/Euro you have to build here to save your margins]]>Mar 6th 2008 8:58PM