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BMW Motorrad Marks 10 Years of Manaus Production in Brazil

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BMW Motorrad Marks 10 Years of Manaus Production in Brazil — PHOTO — MOTO ADVENTURE (BR) / © Moto Adventure (BR)↗ View original

BMW Motorrad celebrated 10 years of production at its Manaus plant at Festival Interlagos Motos 2026, revealing it has built 150,000 motorcycles in Brazil. It unveiled a 10th-anniversary R 1300 GS Adventure limited to 10 numbered units, and showed the in-development F 450 GS (48 hp, 178 kg) for market research. Brazil is BMW Motorrad's fifth-largest market worldwide.

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Shinji Hanoura

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Look at the spec sheet and the real story isn't the anniversary model — it's the in-development F 450 GS. 48 hp, 178 kg: clearly lighter than the old middleweight GS. Those are numbers aimed at setting a new midsize-adventure benchmark. A base of 150,000 units built in Manaus is what lets them field it. This finished at the market-research stage — that's the good part.