“BMW Manufacturing employs 11,000 people at its eight million square-foot campus. The Spartanburg plant [in South Carolina] assembles the BMW X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, and XM Sports Activity Vehicles and Coupes and their variants. For 30 years, our associates have been proud to assemble more than 6.4 million safe, premium-quality BMWs for our customers around the world. Plant Spartanburg is also the largest automotive exporter in the U.S. by value with a total export value of nearly $9.6 billion.”
https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/spartanburg/en.html
BMW was there long before Nikki.
It was some time in the 1990’s I rode my BMW motorcycle to visit relative in North Carolina.
I went past the plant and they had some sort of museum but it was closed because it was a Sunday.