How to pick up your new diesel at the factory

This looks like fun - and the last page (4) of the article has 7 multimedia tours of different aspects of the delivery and driving school experience.

BMW Factory Delivery at the Spartanburg Performance Center: 2012 BMW X5 xDrive35d

by Jonathan Spira

It’s been a tradition in my family that we go to the factory to take delivery of our cars. Even when I was a lad, I remember going to the local Mercedes-Benz car dealership for my parents to arrange picking up our next car in Germany.
So when it came to picking out a car – even a car for The Diesel Driver’s long-term fleet – one important criterion was the availability of Factory Delivery.
While this usually translates into European Delivery, that doesn’t always have to be the case. Two automakers offer factory delivery in the U.S.: Chevrolet, for the Corvette, and BMW, for all models sold.
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