Bmw takes the ‘Greenest Manufacturer of the Year’ award

LOL a company that does not have a Hybrid anything in the lineup wins this award, wow, that made my day.

perhaps you can't read. the award was for "Greenest Manufacturer". it has jack shit to do with what they actually make. it could have just as easily gone to a company that made clothing.

BMW is probably one of the furthest companies away from being "green". No hybrid tech, a bunch of diesel's and high hp/gas sipping vehicles.

definitely laughable...crazy Brits, I wonder where Jag finished?

Being green isn't always about having hybrids. BMW has a lot of smaller and efficient engines outside of North America for instance. Then, there is the prospect of recycling. BMW and Mercedes have for decades been producing their cars out of recycled materials. For example, the sound isolating foam under the hood of the S class is made from recycled coconut fibres which can be recycled over and over again. I remember reading that the current S class is close to either 85 or 90% recyclable. With BMW it's no different and I guess such FACTORS have given them the advantage in this placing.

Exactly, funny to read this.

In which place did Honda finish there? Last?!

Welcome to business 101. Being a green company means garbage if your product does not also emphasize this. Based on some peoples logic below that being green has nothing to do with the car. So basically the end product, what your company ultimately makes its dollar profit on is not hybrid or extremely earth friendly (aside from diesels). At least compared to other companies with lots of hybrid tech and other green stuff in their actual products.

So let me put it simply before I rant on the above. If I make a Hummer that gets 5mpg and costs $50,000 to the consumer, and uses up loads of resources to make, but my building has a lot of glass for natural light, and my factory has convertors to transform gases to heat/energy, then I am a green company? That is like Clorox making bleach in a green way. It is still bleach and still harmful. If you want to be a true green company you need to show that in your products. If BMW interiors were recycled materials and they had hybrids, ultra clean diesels (blue tech MB), used the Michelin saver tire for better fuel, put solar panels on all buildings, then maybe they can be green. You can do everything you want in your company to be greener but if your end product does not promote your companies green-ness, then what is the point.

If it takes more harmful emissions and toxins to make that prius then that 5mpg hummer will ever create in it's lifetime then yes the Hummer is greener. Only with bmw, they aren't making hummers, they are making fairly efficient vehicles that don't require harmful processing chemicals to create them.

Well it is green, they are one of the only automakers to only use paint on basis of water. It is about how they make the car, they use less water in their production than other car makers things like that.

Nearly all manufacturers use waterbased paints for the topcoat.

Hybrid/battery technology is hardly green. Batteries (all types) are just about the most toxic substances on earth.

You see, unlike other companies that pretend to be green by producing hybrids while killing the environment, BMW manufactures it's cars in a green. "Other" companies also offer more V8 SUVs than BMW's whole line-up. ;)

What about the BMW X6 Active Hybrid and the BMW 7 Series Active Hybrid?
Do these not count as Hybrids, i think thez do !!

Sorry..forgot to add link>
http://www.bmwblog.com/2009/12/28/bmw-activehybrid-7-first-exclusively-for-vips/