Inside BMW’s Hams Hall engine plant

BMW Group has spent £750m on its manufacturing sites in the UK in preparation for a “production ramp up” of its next-generation engines. A significant portion of this sum went towards improving the company’s Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham.

Ilka Horstmeier, responsible for the OEM’s global production network for engines and electrified powertrain, said: “Our new engine family of highly efficient three, four and six-cylinder engines have