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In 2023, BMW Group South Africa marked a monumental achievement – 50 years of its Rosslyn plant, the first outside Germany. A whopping R4.2 billion investment was announced, fueling the production of the next-gen BMW X3 plug-in hybrid, set to roll out in late 2024. South Africa gets the exclusive …
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