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Longtime manufacturing partner signs up for another future productContract manufacturers play a crucial, but often unnoticed and unheralded role in the automotive industry. Several popular models have been built by contract manufacturers at one time or another. Many first-generation Porsche Boxsters were built in Finland by Valmet, and Austria-based Magna Steyr has been a longtime partner with BMW and its Mini division, building the Countryman compact crossover, and the two-door Paceman. BMW has announced production of those two models is moving to Mini's main manufacturing plant in Oxford, England after 2016. But BMW has signed a new contract manufacturing agreement with Magna to build future models, according to a Magna statement.
