BMW Group Environmental Leadership Honored by 4 AMES Awards
BMW Group Environmental Leadership Honored by 4 AMES Awards
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, February 27, 2003... BMW Group automobiles won four
awards from AMES Award LLC, the auto industry's leading authority on
environmental performance, for their environmentally safe 2003 model year
products. BMW Group automobiles including the BMW 3 Series, 5 Series, Z4, and
MINI Cooper all won awards in their respective vehicle classes, selected from a
pool of 220 brands/models. These vehicles account for over 80 percent of total
BMW Group sales in the United States. AMES Awards are presented based on the
following criteria: Regulated Emissions, Non-Regulated Emissions including Fuel
Economy, and use of Recycled Materials. The BMW Group has captured 13 awards
for its models since the inception of the award program in 2000.
Not only does the BMW Group use recycled materials in production but, more
importantly, it is a leader in designing recyclability into the cars
themselves, designing cars to be easily dismantled and recycled at the car's
end-of-life. The BMW Group was among the first in the industry to eliminate use
of asbestos in brake and clutch linings, and to use water-based paints in
production.
AMES Award LLC is a privately held business that uses a patent-pending business
process for providing consumers objective, comparative information on the
environmental sensitivity of cars and light trucks. Results are then
communicated in a user-friendly Automotive Market Environmental Superiority
(AMES) Award format.
BMW Group In America
BMW of North America has been present in the United States since 1975. Since
then, the BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales
and financial service organizations for the BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brands;
DesignworksUSA, an industrial design firm in California; a technology office in
Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country, including
BMW Manufacturing Corp. in South Carolina. The BMW Group sales organization is
represented in the U.S. through networks of 340 BMW car, 327 BMW Sports
Activity Vehicle, 148 BMW Motorcycle retailers, 70 MINI car dealers and 27
Rolls-Royce motorcar dealers. BMW US Holding Corp., the 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 http://www.bmwusa.com http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com and
http://www.miniusa.com