BMW will transfer the production of the Mini Countryman to Leipzig in 2023
- BMW has announced that it will transfer the production of the Mini Countryman from the Dutch factory in Born to the German one in Leipzig when the new generation of the model will enter the market in 2023. Firstly produced in Graz in Austria, from 2010 to 2016, the Mini Countryman was transferred to Born in the Netherlands from 2017, when it was renewed. The Leipzig plant currently produces the BMW 1 and 2 Series, as well as X1 and X2 (partly).
- As the production capacity of the BMW plant in Leipzig is limited to 400,000 vehicles per year, it is possible that a number of X1 models produced today in Leipzig will be transferred to the Born plant, as a share of the X1 production is already made there.
- It seems that this decision to transfer the Mini Countryman to Germany anticipates the decision to transfer the Mini sedan from the United Kingdom to Europe, maybe to BMW's future Hungarian plant.
- The carmaker had indeed announced that in the absence of a free trade agreement between Great Britain and the European Union, following the Brexit vote, it was no longer profitable to continue the production in the island and that the transfer of production of the Mini would be considered.
- It therefore seems that this scenario is pending and we understand better why the British government wants to compensate the departure of foreign carmakers from England by the arrival of new carmakers, for example Chinese, which would explain why this country has decided to electrify all of its automobile market from 2030.
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