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MINI rolls off its three millionth car at Plant Oxford

12 Sep 2014|1,333 views

MINI is floating in bundle of joy after its three millionth car left the assembly lines on Thursday while two million MINIs were exported from the U.K.

13 years after the brand was relaunched in 2001, MINI has reached an impressive milestone on Thursday after its three-millionth car rolled off the assembly line at the Oxford plant in the U.K.

The MINI Oxford Plant currently produces the Cooper Hatchback and its convertible variant, the five-door Cooper, the Coupe and its drop-top variant models

Harald Kruger, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for Production, and Peter Schwarzenbauer, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for MINI, BMW Motorrad, Rolls-Royce and Aftersales, joined Baroness Susan Kramer, British Minister of State for Transport, and Frank Bachmann, Managing Director of Plants Oxford and Swindon, to celebrate the special anniversary vehicle - a five-door MINI adorning the striking colours of the Union Jack as part of an official ceremony.

The success of the MINI can be attributed to the positive developments at the manufacturing facility since 2001 - from a headcount of 2,400 producing around 300 cars daily, to 4,000 employees - working in three shifts - producing around 1,000 cars a day now.

Last year, MINI produced a total of 303,177 vehicles with 175,986 units rolling out from Plant Oxford. A further 125,559 units of the MINI Countryman and MINI Paceman were contract-manufactured at MSF Graz in Austria and other assembly plants in Asia.

In addition, MINI is proud to report that two million of its iconic cars have been exported out from the U.K. to more than 110 countries over the same period. The U.K. is the automaker's second largest market after the U.S. while 80 percent of the manufactured MINI's in Oxford are exported - making MINI the third largest vehicle exporter in the U.K.

13 years after the brand was relaunched in 2001, MINI has reached an impressive milestone on Thursday after its three-millionth car rolled off the assembly line at the Oxford plant in the U.K.

Harald Kruger, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for Production, and Peter Schwarzenbauer, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for MINI, BMW Motorrad, Rolls-Royce and Aftersales, joined Baroness Susan Kramer, British Minister of State for Transport, and Frank Bachmann, Managing Director of Plants Oxford and Swindon, to celebrate the special anniversary vehicle - a five-door MINI adorning the striking colours of the Union Jack as part of an official ceremony.

The success of the MINI can be attributed to the positive developments at the manufacturing facility since 2001 - from a headcount of 2,400 producing around 300 cars daily, to 4,000 employees - working in three shifts - producing around 1,000 cars a day now.

Last year, MINIproduced a total of 303,177 vehicles with 175,986 units rolling out from Plant Oxford. A further 125,559 units of the MINI Countryman and MINI Paceman were contract-manufactured at MSF Graz in Austria and other assembly plants in Asia.

In addition, MINI is proud to report that two million of its iconic cars have been exported out from the U.K. to more than 110 countries over the same period. The U.K. is the automaker's second largest market after the U.S. while 80 percent of the manufactured MINI's in Oxford are exported - making MINI the third largest vehicle exporter in the U.K.