BMW builds more than one million cars in Germany

BMW built more than one million cars in Germany in 2025. This means that the Munich-based company is responsible for around a quarter of domestic car production, according to the company. According to the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), this amounted to 4.15 million cars last year.

This means that two-fifths of the cars built by the BMW Group will once again come from Germany. The company has not yet provided exact figures, but in 2024 the share was around 43 percent.

Four car plants in Germany - not just in Bavaria

In Germany, BMW builds cars in Munich, Regensburg, Dingolfing and Leipzig. Most of them are destined for the European region. The Munich-based company has not yet provided any figures on the current breakdown, but in 2024 Regensburg had the highest production by number of units among the German plants with 343,000 cars - ahead of Dingolfing with 298,000, Leipzig with 246,000 and Munich with 201,000. The distribution last year is likely to have been roughly similar. This means that just under a third of the cars produced by the BMW Group, which also includes Mini and Rolls-Royce, come from Bavaria.

At all four German plants, BMW builds vehicles with combustion engines, plug-in hybrids and all-electric drive systems on a single assembly line. The Bavarian plants only build vehicles of the core brand, while the Mini Countryman is also produced in Leipzig alongside BMW models.

However, the Munich-based company's largest plant is located abroad. In 2024, it was Spartanburg in the USA with 396,000 vehicles.

"Our plants impressively demonstrate how competitive industry is in Germany," says BMW Board Member for Production and designated Group CEO Milan Nedeljkovic. "More than a million vehicles produced are over a million good arguments for Germany's innovative strength."