Thursday, October 28, 2010

BMW Under Scrutiny in Europe

On October 26, 2010, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the world’s largest luxury-car maker, is being investigated by Swiss antitrust authorities for allegedly preventing vehicle sales in some European countries to Swiss residents.

For UCanImport readers who have been following the class-action lawsuit currently underway in Canada, this likely comes as no surprise.

To read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-26/bmw-probed-for-blocking-sales-to-swiss-customers.html

To follow the Canadian lawsuit: http://autolawsuit.blogspot.com/

If you wish to import a BMW vehicle from the US into Canada, while maintaining the warranty, be advised that BMW Canada imposes a number of punitive costs for instrument cluster modification and heater module conversions, plus a fee to receive recall clearance. To learn more, search "BMW" on the upper-left hand search box and click on the magnifying class.

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