BMW plans to build the 3 and 5 series at an assembly plant in Tamil Nadu, 25 miles (40km) from Chennai in South India.
The vehicles will be imported in completely knocked down kit (CKD) form from Germany through Chennai Port and assembled at the 22-acre Maraimalai Nagar site in the Mahindra Industrial Park.
General Motors has dropped plans to buy Daewoo Motor India’s car plant at Surajpur in Uttar Pradesh. What has prompted General Motors to call off the deal is the government’s inordinate delay in reaching an out-of-court settlement with the lenders to the beleaguered plant and Arcil, an asset reconstruction fund overseeing the sale, sources close to the development said. 
