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Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo · Jun 6, 2026

🇷🇺🇩🇪‼️🚨 RUSSIAN-MADE BMW CARS - HILARIOUS SANCTION BREACH: Russia has started assembling its own Russian BMW cars…

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Russia has begun assembling BMW vehicles in Kaliningrad using abandoned German BMW plant infrastructure, leftover parts, and experienced employees. They've now exceeded the original assembly kits and are reportedly producing new models like the BMW 5 Series, possibly sourcing components from Chinese factories, while BMW officially rejects these vehicles.

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    🇷🇺🇩🇪‼️🚨 RUSSIAN-MADE BMW CARS - HILARIOUS SANCTION BREACH: Russia has started assembling its own Russian BMW cars in Kaliningrad! You can now buy a Russian BMW X7 SUV for a lower price. These Russian-assembled BMWs are produced in the former BMW plant, which the Germans left and abandoned. -> The Russians took over the experienced employees, leftover parts, and the assembly line to start their own production! Now there are two BMW manufacturers in the world: one in Germany and one in Russia. 🤣 Want ti buy a Russian BMW? 🧵 1/

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    🇩🇪🇷🇺 Russian-assembled BMWs are equipped properly, even with accessories not easily available in Germany. In the beginning the Russians started using leftover German BMW “assembly kits” to make the cars. This was an attempt to use up the stock and move on. But it worked so well that the number of cars they assembled now exceeds the kits left in Kaliningrad, and BMW itself is wondering how it’s possible. So how is that possible? 2/

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    🇷🇺🇩🇪‼️ The Russian BMW manufacturer already hints at the assembly of models that were never produced in Russia! Until now the Russian BMW plant only assembled the BMW models that were produced by the Germans there before (X5, X6, X7), but now they plan to also assemble the BMW 5 Series in Kaliningrad. The BMW 5 Series was never produced in Kaliningrad, but that might change soon. If that happens it would be wild. They closed off and abandoned Russia fully, so Russia just copy-pasted all BMW cars and now sells them by itself without giving a cent to the Germans. 3/

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    🇩🇪🇷🇺 This famous Russian blogger is careful and does not openly admit where the assembly parts come from, but he clearly states that new models are being assembled and this is NOT from old leftover assembly kits. So Russia is getting them from somewhere? One can only speculate that Chinese factories may produce some secretly and send them to Russia. An old known scheme is to keep official (BMW) factories working at night, for example, and produce parts that the Germans don’t know about. PS: But to be clear, I have no idea where they come from; I just speculate. 4/

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    🇩🇪🇷🇺 Russians began manufacturing spare parts for BMW cars themselves. This does not include big complex parts, so where they come from is a mystery. Certainly interesting things are happening if you cut off a big country like Russia from western technology. 5/

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    🇩🇪🇷🇺 The BMW Corporation is furious that Russia keeps producing BMW cars without its approval and rejects them. They are not officially recognized by BMW as real cars. I don’t think anyone who bought one cares, and most who buy a used one later will never even know it’s a “Russian BMW.” 6/

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    Full report by the Russian tuner and blogger youtu.be/-1zT229sXA4