In a surprising change of events, for the first time the MINI Countryman is going to be produced outside Europe.
The BMW Group earlier today announced the start of local production of the MINI Countryman at the BMW plant near Chennai. This comes in as a move to expand their international production network in response to the growing demand for MINI cars. This is going to be the first time the British premium brand will roll off an assembly line outside of Europe. Quality standards will remain the same and this move will hopefully help to meet their steadily increasing demand. But the other petrol variants of the MINI Countryman – MINI Cooper S Countryman and MINI Cooper S Countryman High – will be imported in India as Completely Built-up Units (CBU). The MINI (MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S) and MINI Convertible (MINI Cooper Convertible) will be imported to India as Completely Built-up Units (CBU) in petrol variants. In another big move, the locally produced MINI Countryman will be introduced in two diesel variants – MINI Cooper D Countryman and MINI Cooper D Countryman High. A new petrol variant of MINI ONE Countryman will also slated to be produced at BMW Plant Chennai.
