Since the reopening of VDL Nedcar on 17 July 2014, the factory has built four different models for BMW Group: the MINI 3-door (since 2014), the MINI Convertible (since 2015), the MINI Countryman (since 2016), including the MINI Countryman Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (since March 2017) and the BMW X1 (since August 2017). The production of the million vehicles that VDL Nedcar has built for the BMW Group involves no fewer than 34.000 man-years of employment.  

'Performance of size'

Director John van Soerland of VDL Nedcar: “Building a million cars for a premium brand like BMW says something about the craftsmanship of our employees. Since the collaboration with BMW Group started eight years ago, our employees in Born have excelled in quality, flexibility and delivery reliability. This milestone is an achievement of size and craftsmanship of the highest order of which we can all be justifiably proud.”

'Impressive'

Director Frank Bachmann of the BMW Group plant in Regensburg: “The development of VDL Nedcar is impressive when it comes to performance and reliability and the professional way in which the factory builds our cars. That is something VDL Nedcar and its employees can be proud of.”

About VDL Nedcar

VDL Nedcar in Born is an independent car manufacturer that produces cars for third parties. It is the only large car factory in the Netherlands that has been part of VDL Groep in Eindhoven since the end of 2012. Currently there are 4.200 employees. The plant has a capacity to produce up to 200.000 cars per year, on a two-shift basis. 

VDL Nedcar uses a highly automated production process (1.400 industrial robots). Since the start in 1967, more than 5,7 million cars (DAF, Volvo, Smart, Mitsubishi, MINI, BMW) have rolled off the production line in Born. VDL Nedcar currently produces the MINI Convertible, the MINI Countryman and the BMW X1, the PHEV variant of the MINI Countryman is also being produced.