BMW BECOMES A 'PART' OF STOCKTON

Site Announced for New Regional Parts Distribution Center

Woodcliff Lake, NJ - August 20, 2004... BMW of North America, LLC has selected
Stockton, California for the site of its fifth regional Parts Distribution
Center and will begin construction in the coming weeks.

The 250,000 square-foot facility, designed to grow with BMW, will support 44
BMW and MINI dealerships in the region, which includes northern California,
Northern Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The
center will accommodate inventory for all BMW and MINI vehicles - about 70,000
different parts - and will employ about 50 people. Most of those employees
will be hired locally. Completion of the new distribution center, to be
located in the Airport Gateway Center Industrial Park, is scheduled for May,
2005.

"BMW continues to set sales records; in 2003, BMW sold more than 276,000
vehicles in the U.S., an increase of 8 percent over the previous year,"
explained Alan Harris, Vice President of Aftersales. "In addition, the
company is in the midst of its strongest product offensive ever. And, the MINI
Cooper convertible is due to launch in just a few weeks.

"The northwest part of the U.S. continues to be a strong market for BMW Group
and we are committed to providing our dealers, and our customers, with the best
possible service," Harris continued. "With nearly two million BMWs on the road
now, and the exciting new models planned for the coming years, we are ready to
expand our parts logistics capabilities." There are also plans to source BMW
motorcycle parts from this facility.

BMW selected Stockton as the site for its new parts distribution center because
of its proximity to San Francisco - a major market for the luxury automaker.
The Stockton facility will be built by Panattoni Development Company. The
automaker's other four parts centers in the U.S. are located in Mount Olive,
NJ, Ontario, CA, Jacksonville, FL and Senatobia, MS.

BMW Group In America
BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975.
ROLLS-ROYCE Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW
Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial
service organizations for the BMW brand, the MINI brand, and the ROLLS-ROYCE
brand of Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, an industrial design firm in California; a
technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the
country. BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group's
global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all
Z4 Roadster and X5 Sports Activity Vehicles. The BMW Group sales organization
is represented in the U.S. through networks of 340 BMW passenger car centers,
327 BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 148 BMW motorcycle retailers, 76 MINI
passenger car dealers, and 25 ROLLS-ROYCE Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding
Corp., the BMW Group's sales headquarters for North, Central and South America,
is

located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.

Information about BMW Group products is available to consumers via the Internet
at:

www.bmwusa.com
www.bmwmotorradusa.com
www.miniusa.com
www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com

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Journalist note: Information about the BMW Group and its products is available
to journalists on-line at the BMW Group PressClub at the following address:
www.press.bmwgroup.com.
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