He Made Airplanes, Then Turned It Into A Billion Dollar Car Brand!
Building airplane engines for the German army, this carmaker was developing the engineering expertise that would one day make their cars famous. But once they fell on the wrong side of the Nazis, the company almost never had the chance. It would take a daring design to bring this carmaker back from the brink and turn it into one of the most elite brands in history. This is the story of BMW.
About BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG), trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (German pronunciation: [ˌbeːʔɛmˈveː] ), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational conglomerate manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Germany. The moniker, "BMW ", first came into use when the German firm Rapp Motorenwerke changed its name to Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH (BMW GmbH) in 1917. Thereafter, in 1922, the name and asse...
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