BMW India

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BMW India Pvt Ltd
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Automotive
Founded2006 [1]
Headquarters Gurgaon, India [2]
Area served
India
Key people
Vikram Pawah (President, CEO) [3]
Products Luxury vehicles
Commercial vehicles
Motorcycles
Production output
Increase2.svg 11,105 units (2018)
Number of employees
650
Parent BMW
Subsidiaries BMW Indian Financial Services Pvt. Ltd., BMW Indian Leasing Pvt. Ltd.
Website bmw.in

BMW India is the Indian subsidiary of German car manufacturer BMW. It started operations in January 2007 with a wide range of its activities, including a manufacturing plant in Chennai, a parts warehouse in Mumbai, a training centre in Gurgaon NCR, and development the of a dealer organisation across major metropolitan centres of the country.

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Locations

BMW Group Plant Chennai started operations on 29 March 2007. BMW Group Plant Chennai locally produces 12 car models – BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe, BMW 3 Series, BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo, BMW 5 Series, BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo, BMW 7 Series, BMW 8 Series, BMW X1, BMW X3, BMW X4, BMW X5, BMW X7 and MINI Countryman.

Models

BMW 5 Series 2018 BMW 520d xDrive M Sport Automatic 2.0 Front.jpg
BMW 5 Series
BMW X3 2018 BMW X3 xDrive30d M Sport Automatic 3.0 Front.jpg
BMW X3

Sales performance

Number of units sold by year

Year2012 [11] 2013 [11] 2014 [12] 2015 [12] 2016 [13] 2017 [14] 2018201920202012–2020
Units sold9,375

(including Mini) [11]

7,327

(including Mini) [11]

10,851 [12] 11,192 [12] (including Mini (340 MINI [15] ))7,861 [13] 9,800 [14] 11,105

(including mini-700)

9,641

(including mini-641)

6,604

(including Mini- 512)

90,894

MINI India

Mini Countryman 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S 2.0 Front.jpg
Mini Countryman
Mini Clubman Mini Cooper D Clubman (F54) - Frontansicht, 6. Marz 2016, Dusseldorf.jpg
Mini Clubman

MINI has successfully established itself as a premium small car brand in India since its launch in January 2012. Presently, the MINI model range in India includes the MINI 3-door, MINI Countryman and MINI Cooper SE. The MINI Countryman is locally produced at BMW Group Plant Chennai. Till date, MINI has established 10 sales outlets in India.

Dealer/service network

States and cities in India with one or more BMW dealership (number of dealerships):

StateCityNumber of dealerships
Andhra PradeshVijayawada1
ChandigarhChandigarh
ChhattisgarhRaipur
DelhiSouth-East Delhi
GoaVerna
GujaratAhmedabad
Surat
HaryanaFaridabad
Guragaon2
JharkhandRanchi1
KarnatakaBangalore2
Mangalore1
KeralaKochi
Kozhikode
Trivandrum1
Madhya PradeshIndore
MaharashtraMumbai
Pune1
Nagpur
Aurangabad
OdishaBhubaneswar
PunjabLudhiana
RajasthanJaipur
Udaipur
Tamil NaduChennai4
Coimbatore1
Madurai
TelanganaHyderabad
Uttar PradeshKanpur
Noida
Lucknow
West BengalKolkata

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