Build-Sheet Analytics · US Sample
Every 2027 iX3 50 xDrive we have been able to identify in the US — 830 cars in production or transit — decoded down to every package, wheel, and paint choice. Click any bar or chip to filter the whole page; click it again to clear. Or look up a VIN and follow one car.
+n = cars that reached that stage within the last 7 days.full sample Factory statuses freeze on weekends (no Sunday build dates anywhere in the data), but logistics scans — dispatch, port arrival — post in large batches that can land any day.
These medians are young and honest. Clean full-fleet tracking only began Aug 17, so stages are measured from cars we actually watched enter and leave — cars still sitting in a stage, or already in it when tracking began, are excluded rather than guessed. Expect the port and transit numbers to fill in over the coming weeks; the counts show how much evidence sits behind each figure.
Ocean Wave Blue keeps stretching its lead at 34% — three times the runner-up, and remarkably stable as the sample has grown from 200 cars to over 800. Behind it the field is tightly packed: Polarized Grey and Alpine White 11%, Black Sapphire and Brooklyn Grey 10%, Space Silver 9%, Eucalyptus Green 7%. Vegas Red is up to 35 cars, and three buyers sprang for the matte Frozen Ocean Wave Blue.full sample
76% of buyers add an M Sport treatment, with the base package now edging ahead — 330 of 830 chose base M Sport against 301 for M Sport Professional. 199 cars ship without any M Sport, a share that has grown as the sample has widened beyond dealer listings.full sample
M Sport brakes are the most-picked stand-alone extra at 41% — red calipers over blue by more than 3-to-1 (256 vs 81). Close behind, 38% add 3-zone rear climate, and 20% heated rear seats. A handful go the other way: 32 debadge the trunk and 32 delete the panoramic roof for a solid one.full sample
† Marked rows are inferred from package membership. BMW's build sheets only itemize some of what a package contains — the Technology Package lists Harman Kardon and nothing else — so the 3D Head-up Display and Iconic Glow exterior lighting show up on no build sheet despite being fitted to every car with that package. Their counts are the package's own take rate, not a per-car observation.
The Panoramic Glass Sunroof is near-universal at 83%, and a heated steering wheel (89%) and Harman Kardon audio (90%) are effectively default — they arrive inside the Comfort and Technology packages nearly everyone checks. 498 of 830 cars carry five or more named packages.full sample
Roughly 370 iX3 per production day. VINs are stamped in build order, so each car's sequence number plotted against its factory date exposes the line speed — though individual cars do fall out of sequence, since numbers are assigned when an order is scheduled rather than when it is built. No car in this set has a Sunday build date and only a handful land on Saturdays (the shaded gaps), so the raw ~330/calendar-day figure understates output; across actual working days it's nearer 370. Weekend work is rare rather than banned: a random-VIN probe did turn up one Sunday-built car, so treat the shaded days as near-shutdowns, not hard closures. Only the 640 cars past assembly are dated (R² 0.94); the rest are still being built, with higher VINs. Output over a six-week window — read it as a floor, and it's plant-wide across all markets, not US-only.full sample
Checked against BMW itself: the 50,000th car. On July 28 BMW announced that Plant Debrecen had built its 50,000th iX3. In this dataset, the cars flanking sequence number 50,000 — serials 49,973 and 50,004 — were built July 24–25, one working day before the press release. That confirms two things at once: the five-digit sequence number is the plant's lifetime odometer, counting every iX3 ever built from job one, and the build dates here are accurate to the day against BMW's own communications. It also frames the US program: American production began July 6 at sequence ~43,600, so everything below that is nine months of European-market ramp — and BMW says incoming orders are approaching 100,000, roughly ten weeks of production ahead of the ~62,000 sequence numbers assigned so far.