2 million Bimms
From BMW: On December 15 last year, the 100,000th motorcycle was built at the Berlin plant, the first time that magical milestone had been achieved in a single calendar year.Exactly 100,064 BMW motorcycles were sold worldwide -- the highest number ever supplied by the company to customers in a single year, and a 2.7 per cent increase on 2005. (The company sold 1610 bikes in Australia in 2006.)
But perhaps more significantly, in December the number of all BMW motorcycles produced since 1923 reached the two million mark.
By the end of the year a total of 2,061,977 motorcycles had been produced, 1,616,016 having come off the production lines of the motorcycle plant in Berlin-Spandau since 1969.
In keeping with the company's roots, the 100,000th motorcycle was a flat twin "Boxer", a R 1200 R.
Hermann Bohrer, head of production of the Berlin plant since September, said: "100,000 is great symbol for the work done here in the plant in recent years. This kind of thing can only be achieved with a strong, well-motivated workforce. Six new models have been a big challenge to the plant. I would like to thank everyone. Their efforts have made this great success possible."
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