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Remember these? About thirty years ago they were the bread and butter model for BMW and up until two years ago, the Rosslyn plant pumped out millions of them to right- and left hand drive markets. The final figure was 1,191 604 before the plant was entirely restructured at...
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Guessing this is symbolic Honestly the moment felt enveloping. The climatic finish to the 530 MLE’s journey to restoration that it fully deserved. A fortnight ago the restored BMW 530 MLE was shown to the media trundling through the same BMW factory in Pretoria, South Africa just like it...
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The three letter MLE suffix on a BMW badge is almost lost in the fractured rhetoric but if you’re trudging back through BMW South Africa’s lineage to put a date and place to the first M Car, the 530 MLE is considered – under some caveats – to be...
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BMW Group SA made waves back in 2015 when they announced a colossal R6-billion investment into their Rosslyn plant. This investment was to redirect the plant from the production of the BMW 3-Series to a completely different model – the BMW X3. The first model rolled off the...