Bayerische Motoren Werke .. or Bavarian Motor Works, is a manufacturing company that makes motorcycles, OEM BMW Rims , & engines for cars. It's located in Germany & was founded in the year of 1916; which is not too long ago compared to other luxury brands. BMW even owns & manufactures the Mini brand, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Cars. BMW makes motorcycles under BMW Motorrad & Husqvarna brands - I know they're weird names, but you have to remember that they are in Germany. BMW's & Factory Original BMW Wheels are widely known for their luxury & the great way that they perform.
After the first World War, which was World War I .. if you didn't know, BMW was mandated to stop manufacturing engines for planes by the rules of the Versailles Armistice Treaty.
Because of this unexpected halt that they had to obey, the BMW company switched to making motorcycles in 1923 once the restrictions of the treaty were slowly starting to be lifted. After making motorcycles, they began to make cars & Original BMW Rims in 1928 & 1929.
The little blue, white, circular logo is supposed to illustrate or represent the movement of a propeller, to show that the white blades are cutting through the beautiful blue sky. I can honestly say that I had no idea; my Mom has a BMW with Factory BMW Rims & I had no idea what it meant. I just thought they liked those colors & it was the ones that looked best with the car - oh well.
After BMW made their first aircraft & it was successful because of its high-altitude performance, they started making engines for World War II aircrafts.
When 1959 rolled in, the automotive division in the BMW company started having financial troubles. After it did enough damage, the shareholders had a meeting to decide whether they were going to work with it & through it or just give up on it. As you can obviously tell, they decided to just work through it & just try to cash in onthe, at the time, economic car boom that was enjoyed by so many manufacturers & people. They eventually bought the right to make & sell the Italian Iso Isetta. After this was done, it helped the company get back on their feet & gave them what they needed to move forward & make their cars & Factory Original BMW Wheels .
In 1992, BMW came up on a large wager in California; it was based on industrial design studio DesignworksUSA - which they just so happen to fully acquire in the year of 1995. The year before that, 1994, BMW had bought the Rover Group & owned it for six years. The Rover Group included the Rover, Land Rover, & even the MG brands. By 2000, they weren't doing so well so BMW decided to sell the brands to Phoenix Consortium, they eventually formed MG Rover. At this time, BMW still had the rights to manufacture the new MINI model, which was launched in the year of 2001.
In February of last year (2009), the chief designer - Chris Bangle - stated that he was leaving BMW after being on the design team for seventeen years. He was replaced by a man named Adrian van Hooydonk, who was initially, Bangle's right hand man. Bangle was widely known for all of the radical designs he had produced with BMW including the 7-Series & even the 2002 BMW Z4 with Factory Original 2002 BMW Z4 Rims . Let's just hope that this new guy is doing a great job like Chris Bangle.
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