BMW M3 Cabriolet E93 2008 in Metallic Grey 1:43 scale by Minichamps

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German for Bavarian Motor Is effective, usually known under their abbreviation BMW, is a German luxurious vehicles, motorcycle, and engine manufacturing firm founded in 1916. Headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. BMW owns Mini cars and it is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles within BMW Motorrad, and plug-in electric cars under the BMW i sub-brand as well as the "iPerformance" model designation inside regular BMW lineup. It is one with the best-selling luxury automakers on the globe. The company is a factor of the Euro Stoxx 50 currency markets index.BMW was established like a business entity following a restructuring with the Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft production firm in 1917. After the end of World War I inside 1918, BMW was forced to help cease aircraft-engine production from the terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. The company consequently changed to motorcycle production since the restrictions of the treaty has become lifted in 1923, followed by automobiles within 1928-29.The first car which often BMW successfully produced plus the car which launched BMW on the path to automobile production was this Dixi, based on the Austin tx 7 and licensed from your Austin Motor Company throughout Birmingham, England.

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BMW's very first significant aircraft engine, and commercial product regarding any sort, was the BMW IIIa inline-six liquid-cooled serp of 1918, known for good fuel economy and high-altitude performance. With German rearmament from the 1930s, the company again begun producing aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe. The factory in Munich made ample utilization of forced labour: foreign civilians, prisoners of war and inmates with the concentration camp Dachau. Among its successful World War II engine types were the BMW 132 and also BMW 801 air-cooled radial applications, and the pioneering BMW 003 axial-flow turbojet, which powered the very small, 1944-1945-era jet-powered "emergency fighter", the Heinkel He 162 Spatz. The BMW 003 jet engine was first tested as a prime power plant within the first prototype of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the Me 262 V1, but in 1942 exams the BMW prototype applications failed on takeoff having only the standby Junkers Jumo 210 nose-mounted piston engine powering it with a safe landing. [11][12] The few Me personally 262 A-1b test examples built used a lot more developed version of your 003 jet, recording an official best speed of 800 km/h (497 mph). The first-ever four-engine aircraft aircraft ever flown had been the sixth and eighth prototypes of the Arado Ar 234 airliner reconnaissance-bomber, which used BMW 003 jets for power. Through 1944 the 003's trustworthiness improved, making it a acceptable power plant for atmosphere frame designs competing for that Jägernotprogramm's light fighter production contract. which was won through the Heinkel He 162 Spatz layout. The BMW 003 aviation turbojet was also involved as the basic starting place for a pioneering turboshaft powerplant pertaining to German armored fighting motor vehicles in 1944-45, as the GT info. Towards the end with the Third Reich, BMW developed some military aircraft projects for your Luftwaffe, the BMW Strahlbomber, the BMW Schnellbomber along with the BMW Strahljäger, but none of these people were built.

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BMW 3-Series (F30)In 1992, BMW acquired a big stake in California-based manufacturing design studio DesignworksUSA, which they fully received in 1995. In 1994, BMW bought the British Rover Group[19] (which back then consisted of the Rover, Land Rover and MG brands in addition to the rights to defunct brand names including Austin and Morris), and owned it for six years. By 2000, Rover was incurring enormous losses and BMW chose to sell the combine. The MG and Rover brands were sold towards the Phoenix Consortium to kind MG Rover, while Land Rover was bought out by Ford. BMW, meanwhile, retained the rights to build the new Mini, which was launched within 2001.

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Chief designer Chris Bangle reported his departure from BMW with February 2009, after serving on the design team for nearly 17 years. He was replaced by means of Adrian van Hooydonk, Bangle's former right-hand guy. Bangle was known regarding his radical designs for example the 2002 7-Series and the actual 2002 Z4. In July 2007, the production rights with regard to Husqvarna Motorcycles was purchased by BMW for just a reported 93 million pounds. BMW Motorrad plans to keep operating Husqvarna Motorcycles as being a separate enterprise. All development, sales and production routines, as well as the latest workforce, have remained in spot at its present spot at Varese.In June 2012, BMW was listed because #1 most reputable company on the planet by Forbes.com. Rankings are based upon aspects such as "people's willingness to buy, recommend, work for, and invest in a company is driven 60% by their perceptions of the company and only 40% by their perceptions of their products.".

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