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...Inside, however, scores of mechanics are assembling classy sedans, while nearby, engineers in white lab coats huddle to discuss production levels with their Russian colleagues in German-inflected English. It's an incongruous setting for one of Europe's most prestigious automotive marques, the Bayerische Motorwerken, better known as BMW...
...move that struck many in Moscow's downtrodden business circles as quixotic, BMW set up shop in Russia last fall. The arrival represents a return to an area closely linked with German history. Before World War II, the Russian region of Kaliningrad, separated from the motherland by Poland and Lithuania, was Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia. From 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it served as a major Soviet naval base and was off limits to Westerners. But now BMW's $25 million joint venture is up and running and--mirabile dictu--is actually assembling cars from...
...twin sister Rowena. Her latest trip took her to India, the Netherlands, Singapore, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, among other places. And she doesn't take the touring coach. As might be expected of the mother of a fighter pilot, she straps herself into a fire-engine-red BMW. She logged 7,200 miles on her latest road trip, which is why she has run through three other cars over the years. At the end of each adventure, she leaves her roadster somewhere in Europe so it will be ready for the next time. "I'm like a little turtle...
...BMW shot up behind me on the right, going well over 80. The driver paused when he drew abreast. He gave me the finger - not once but repeatedly, stabbing the air in a pantomime of nasty proctological hydraulics. With his other hand, he flicked the steering wheel to the left in a spasm of menace, as if he meant to run me off the road. A complete stranger wanted me dead - or anyway, he played at it for a moment. At 75 mph, I had blocked the left lane. I had made him late for an IPO, I suppose...
...Sunnyvale, Calif.: Engineers at Interwoven get a leased BMW Z3 ($15,000 a year...