BMW yesterday launched a new car in Britain for the first time.
The company took the wraps off the new M6 Convertible at its outdoor exhibition at the British International Motor Show in London's Docklands.
BMW chairman Dr Helmut Panke said Britain was the second biggest market for the group's M range high performance cars.
This year's Motor Show, at the ExCel Centre, marks a return for BMW, which did not exhibit at the last Motor Show held at the National Exhibition Centre in 2004.
The company employs 6,500 manufacturing staff in Britain, its second largest production outside Germany.
Its "manufacturing triangle" consists of Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham, the Mini factory at Oxford and a body pressings operation at Swindon.
