BMW Hits Nine Million Cars, The Milestone Is A Velvet Orchid iX1

• Regensburg plant has built 9,000,000 cars since 1986.
• The nine-millionth car was a BMW iX1 in Velvet Orchid II Metallic built to a Swedish customer's specification.
• Regensburg assembles gasoline, plug-in hybrid, and fully electric X1 and X2 models on the same assembly line.

BMW's Regensburg plant has built nine million cars since 1986, and the one that tipped the counter over is an iX1 painted in a shade you will not see twice in a parking lot: Velvet Orchid II Metallic.