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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG A language like german for Bavarian Motor Functions, usually known under its abbreviation BMW, is a German luxurious vehicles, motorcycle, and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. Headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. BMW owns Mini cars and is particularly the parent company connected with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad, and plug-in electric cars beneath the BMW i sub-brand along with the "iPerformance" model designation within the regular BMW lineup. It is one from the best-selling luxury automakers on earth. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 wall street game index.BMW was established being a business entity following a restructuring of the Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft manufacturing firm in 1917. After the end associated with World War I within 1918, BMW was forced to cease aircraft-engine production because of the terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. The company consequently altered to motorcycle production for the reason that restrictions of the treaty has become lifted in 1923, followed by automobiles in 1928-29.The first car which often BMW successfully produced as well as the car which launched BMW on the path to automobile production was the particular Dixi, based on the Austin 7 and licensed from your Austin Motor Company inside Birmingham, England.

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BMW's primary significant aircraft engine, and commercial product associated with any sort, was the BMW IIIa inline-six liquid-cooled engine of 1918, known for good energy economy and high-altitude overall performance. With German rearmament inside 1930s, the company again started out producing aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe. The factory in Munich made ample using forced labour: foreign civilians, prisoners of war and inmates from the concentration camp Dachau. Among its successful Entire world War II engine models were the BMW 132 and BMW 801 air-cooled radial engines, and the pioneering BMW 003 axial-flow turbojet, which powered the 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 inside the first prototype of the particular Messerschmitt Me 262, the Me 262 V1, but in 1942 checks the BMW prototype machines failed on takeoff having only the standby Junkers Jumo 210 nose-mounted piston engine powering it with a safe landing. [11][12] The few Everyone 262 A-1b test examples built used a lot more developed version of the 003 jet, recording an official prime speed of 800 km/h (497 mph). The first-ever four-engine aircraft aircraft ever flown had been the sixth and eighth prototypes in the Arado Ar 234 jet reconnaissance-bomber, which used BMW 003 jets for power. Through 1944 the 003's stability improved, making it a ideal power plant for air flow frame designs competing for the Jägernotprogramm's light fighter creation contract. which was won by the Heinkel He 162 Spatz pattern. The BMW 003 aviation turbojet was also under consideration as the basic kick off point for a pioneering turboshaft powerplant intended for German armored fighting vehicles in 1944-45, as the GT information. Towards the end in the Third Reich, BMW developed some military aircraft projects with the Luftwaffe, the BMW Strahlbomber, the BMW Schnellbomber as well as the BMW Strahljäger, but none of these people were built.

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BMW 3-Series (F30)In 1992, BMW acquired a significant stake in California-based commercial design studio DesignworksUSA, which they fully bought in 1995. In 1994, BMW bought the Uk Rover Group[19] (which at the time consisted of the Rover, Land Rover and MG brands in addition to the rights to defunct models including Austin and Morris), and owned it for six years. By 2000, Rover was incurring large losses and BMW thought we would sell the combine. The MG and Rover brands were sold on the Phoenix Consortium to kind MG Rover, while Land Rover was absorbed by Ford. BMW, meanwhile, retained the rights to build the new Mini, which was launched inside 2001.

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Main designer Chris Bangle announced his departure from BMW inside February 2009, after serving on the planning team for nearly 17 years. He was replaced simply by Adrian van Hooydonk, Bangle's former right-hand person. Bangle was known intended for his radical designs for example the 2002 7-Series and the particular 2002 Z4. In July 2007, the production rights for Husqvarna Motorcycles was purchased by BMW to get a reported 93 million euros. BMW Motorrad plans to stay operating Husqvarna Motorcycles as being a separate enterprise. All development, sales and production activities, as well as the latest workforce, have remained in position at its present position at Varese.In June 2012, BMW was listed since the #1 most reputable company on this 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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