BMW is canceling shifts due to missing parts

Car manufacturer BMW is missing parts. "Due to short-term bottlenecks in external parts supply, shift cancellations have occurred or are currently occurring at individual BMW Group plants," said a spokesman when asked by the dpa news agency.

The company did not comment on which parts were missing and why. According to company circles, three plants are or were affected - specifically Regensburg, Leipzig and Oxford.

We are in close contact with the supplier network and have taken measures "to stabilize the supply of parts and resume production," said a spokesman. There was initially no concrete information about how much production was lost.

BMW produced almost 357,000 cars at the Regensburg plant last year.

in Leipzig there were almost 260,000

and in Oxford around 124,000.

A single lost shift can affect several hundred cars there. However, experience shows that such failures can often be made up for.