• BMW to introduce in-car gaming
    • 25/10/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    AirConsole and the BMW Group have created a new partnership to introduce gaming into new BMW vehicles from next year. The games will be instantly delivered over-the-air while AirConsole technology will enable them to be controlled using smartphones. Stephan Durach, senior vice president BMW group connected [...]
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  • Mini factory pauses production
    • 24/02/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Production at the Mini factory in Oxford has been halted due to a shortage in semi-conductors. The factory stopped operating on Monday and will remain closed for the rest of this week. A spokesman for BMW said: "As a result of the global semiconductor shortage, an issue that has affected the entire automotive [...]
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  • BMW open for apprentices
    • 14/12/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    BMW Group has announced it is looking for 95 apprentices to join its 2022 programme. The apprenticeships are in a wide range of roles including engineering, maintenance, human resources, purchasing and communications, with a start date of September 2022. The intake includes around 80 apprentices in the [...]
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  • BMW 7 Series claims EuroCarBody Award 2015
    • 12/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Car experts from all over the world are in agreement: the Carbon Core for the body structure of the new BMW 7 Series is currently the ultimate benchmark. At the 17th Global Car Body Benchmarking Conference, the construction created using an innovative composite consisting of carbon fibre reinforced plastic [...]
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  • Record sales for BMW
    • 11/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Following on from the best ever first three quarters in the company’s sales history, October was another record month for BMW Group deliveries. Sales of BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brand vehicles totalled 191,651 for the month, an increase of 4.0% compared with the same period last year. In the first ten months of [...]
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  • Sytner Tamworth ready bodyshop
    • 27/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Sytner BMW and MINI will open the doors to its new dual-branded Stage One bodyshop in Tamworth next month (November 2015), complete with a pristine, state-of-the-art workshop designed and equipped by Spraybooth Technology Limited (STL). Central to the bodyshop are three latest-generation spraybooths designed, [...]
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  • BMW engine plant revs up production
    • 09/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A large investment programme to develop the BMW Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham is complete. The production of new three and four-cylinder engines is already being ramped up on brand-new production lines, and over one million components will be machined at the plant for the first time this year as supply [...]
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  • More VM’s involved in DieselGate?
    • 05/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Four major vehicle manufacturers have been drawn into the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal after Government-funded research revealed that their engines are emitting toxic fumes at up to seven times the legal limit. The Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds University tested hundreds of new diesel cars on UK [...]
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  • BMW launches upgraded shortfall cover
    • 28/08/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Working with Allianz Global Assistance in the UK, BMW Group has launched a new Shortfall Insurance product for BMW, MINI, BMW Motorrad Retailers and Alphera Partners. The new product helps customers to protect themselves should their car be written off, up to 100% of the invoice price, with no need to select the [...]
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  • The age of enlightenment
    • 27/08/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Magazine
    As car technology continues to evolve at an astounding rate, one of the things manufacturers are focusing on, in regards to car safety, is the design and development of lighting. As car lighting is set to get increasingly more sophisticated, bodyshop magazine looks at what effect this will have on the repair [...]
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