BMW X5 to be added to the list of models built in China

Home Models BMW X5 BMW X5 to be added to the list of models built in China. That's why news that the BMW X5 will be made in China, for the local market, is quite a big deal. "We will be adding localized production of the BMW X5 in China, for the Chinese market," the spokesperson said, without providing a start date, according to Euronews. In recent years, China has become the largest BMW market in the world and the tariffs imposed by the US against it had a big impact. Since the X5 is currently made exclusively at the Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, BMW had to find an alternative, to keep deliveries going. In 2018, BMW started making the X5 in Thailand, via CKD, delivering up to 20,000 units a year to China from there, in order to keep up with the demand. From January to September this year, China accounted for 700,000 units of the grand total sold by BMW, an increase of about 20 percent compared to last year.