(FILES) A staff member cleans the car logo of a BMW at the International Motor Show IAA on September 8, 2025, in Munich, southern Germany. Premium carmaker BMW is to offer almost half its German staff voluntary redundancy in a bid to cut 8,000 jobs by the end of 2027, a company source told AFP on July 29, 2026. About 40,000 of BMW's roughly 85,000 permanent German employees would receive the offers from October, the source said, adding that production line workers would be spared the cuts. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP via Getty Images)