The Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d'Elegance
News & Media
November 17, 2010
BMW Group to be Featured at 2011 Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – November 12, 2010… The BMW Group will be featured at the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2011. The BMW Group is a founding sponsor of this event.
The 2011 Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival will feature all of the BMW Group brands, including BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars as well as BMW Motorrad.
“We’re pleased to continue our relationship with the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival,” noted Jim O’Donnell – President of BMW of North America, LLC. “South Carolina has been our home for 16 years. Not only do we make vehicles there for worldwide distribution like the all-new BMW X3 Sports Activity Vehicle® , at the BMW Performance Center you can sharpen your driving skills and take delivery of your new BMW.”
As in years past, activities will include displays and customer ride & drive opportunities as well as a celebration of BMW’s rich motorsports heritage.
Dates of the 2011 Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival are Saturday, November 5 – Sunday, November 6. It will again be preceeded by the Hilton Head/Savannah Speed Classic vintage race weekend on Saturday, October 29 – Sunday, October 30.
Information about the event can be found at http://www.hhiconcours.com/.
BMW Group In America
BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, a strategic design consultancy in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country. BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group’s global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all X5 and X3 Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 Sports Activity Coupes. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 338 BMW passenger car centers, 336 BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 143 BMW motorcycle retailers, 100 MINI passenger car dealers, and 31 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group’s sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
Information about BMW Group products is available to consumers via the Internet at: www.bmwgroupna.com
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Journalist note: Information about BMW Group and its products in the USA is available to journalists on-line at www.bmwgroupusanews.com and www.press.bmwna.com.
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ABOUT THE HILTON HEAD ISLAND CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE & MOTORING FESTIVAL:
Positioned as one of the last Concours in the national annual show circuit, the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance & Motoring Festival has quickly climbed the ranks among national Concours events. In just eight short years, Hilton Head Island is already considered by many as being among those elite USA events such as Pebble Beach and Amelia Island. The ninth annual Festival will be held October 29 – November 7, 2010 at both The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa on Hutchinson Island (Savannah, GA) and the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn (Hilton Head Island, SC). For more information, call (843) 785-SHOW (7469) or visit www.hhiconcours.com.
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