Word: knockdown
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...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 so-called knockdown kits. "The Russian market may be chaotic," says Klaus Liske, BMW's local production director, "but we're confident that we've found a good home." As it happens, BMW's latest plant is a former Soviet naval factory that was built by Germans before the war to make...