BMW's history dates

1913

Karl Rapp (Karl Rapp) opens the company Bayerische Flugzeug-Werke, which produces aircraft engines. Area businesses - District Milbertshofen (Milbertshofen) - chosen not by chance: next was a partner firm Flugmaschinefabrik («Factory Flying Machines"), owned by Gustav Otto (Gustav Otto), son of Nikolaus Gustav Otto (Nikolaus August Otto), the inventor of the internal combustion engine. < br /> In common version of the blue and white logo is a stylized image of a spinning propeller aircraft. There is also a view that the design is based on klechatom white and blue flag of Bavaria.





1917

The First World War brings both companies a large amount of orders. As a result, Rapp and Otto decide to join forces and to attract third-party investment. Thus arises the company Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH («Bavarian Motor Works») - BMW.
In the same year, Rapp left the company.

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1918

The company is changing the legal form, becoming a public company. The new name - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG



1919

MIRV installed the first record in the history of the company: the pilot Franz dimer (Franz Diemer) went up in an airplane with a BMW engine to a height of 9760 m.



1919

The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, prohibited the production of aircraft in Germany. The company was forced to move to production of other products - brakes for trains.



1923

At the new factory in Myunhine built a year ago, it launched the first motorcycle brand BMW - R32.



1928

The company acquires automobile plant in Eisenach and with him a license to produce a small car called the Dixi. The following year, the production line will come down the first car brand BMW.

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1933

Launch of the first BMW car with a 6-cylinder engine. It is on the 303 model was first used, later became characteristic of all models of BMW, the design of the grille (two ovals).



1933



1936

It turns out the famous sports model 328, winner of the plurality of races (rallies, circuit races and other competitions). With the advent of this model byo initiated ideology BMW, as a "car for the driver».



1937

The rider Ernst Henne (Ernst Henne), developed on the speed of a BMW 279, 5 km / h, becoming the fastest rider in the world.



1940

At the beginning of the war suspended car production as consumers begin to gather and aircraft engines and special military vehicles BMW 325 Lichter Einheits-Pkw.



1945

The main factory in Munich goes to the British, and the company caught in the eastern zone of occupation passed into the possession of the Soviet Union.



1948

The one-cylinder motorcycle BMW R24 is the first post-war product of the company that was going to actually artisanal.



1951

Started production of the first post-war car - model 501. In the commercial sense, the model has not justified itself: its production costs the company very gorogo so the price was too high for the majority of potential buyers. It is also not justified itself follow the model 503.



1955

Released the first mass car BMW - three-wheeled Isetta 250, which is popularly nicknamed "egg on wheels". A strange mixture of car and motorcycle enjoyed great demand, even among middle-class people. There were produced 137 thousand. Copies Izetta.



1956

It creates an expensive sports roadster BMW 507. Due to the high prices for the three years was sold only 252 vehicles, most of which are preserved to this day. Current cost of the machine, which has become a collector's rarity, is about 800 thousand. Euro.
Amazingly beautiful car body was designed by American designer Albrecht Graf Goertz.



1962

Launches a small sports car BMW 1500. Orders for this model was so much that the production capacity can not meet demand fully.

On sports model 3200 CS was introduced so-called "Hofmeister kink" - the characteristic curve of the rear pillar (naming comes from the BMW chief designer Wilhelm Hofmeister).



1968

The premiere of the first postwar car class "suite" with a 6-cylinder engine - model 2500.



1972

Opens branch of the company for the development of sports cars - BMW Motorsport.



1975

It appears first car 3 Series (E21).



1975

Launch of a sports car BMW 3.0 CSL, lies in its design, a number of technical innovations. For example, brake system with ABS and engine with four valves per cylinder.



1976

At the Geneva Motor Show was presented to the 6-Series BMW: the new sports coupe built on the basis of sedan 5 Series (body E9). For predatory front view of the car he was nicknamed "The Shark».



1977

A year after the release of the 6-series, there is stylistically similar to the sedan representative class - 7 series. The car is designed to compete with the Mercedes S-Class.
The top version of the 745i, was not a 4, 5-liter engine, as you might think, and 3, 2-liter turbocharged.



1978

Purebred sports car BMW M1 mid-engined stunned the world with its design body developed by Giorgetto Giugiaro (Giorgetto Guigiaro).



1986

Since 1986, over five years in highway-ring races dominated by compact sports car BMW M3, which was developed in parallel with the sport and "civilian" version.



1988

Small Roadster BMW Z1 was originally conceived as an experimental model, but the car went into the series (from 1988 to 1991, produced about 8,000 copies). Plastic body design feature is unusual in rapids retractable doors.



1989

In place of the old 6-series comes a new sports car. The most expensive 850CSi modification to the engine 5, 4 liters. develops power of 380 hp



1994

The BMW buys for 2, 5 billion. DM British manufacturer Rover Group. The development of the Rover 75 sedan and the new version of the luxury SUV Range Rover.
Six years later, BMW sold the company because of the constant loss, leaving himself a model Mini.



1996

The new roadster BMW Z3, ​​designed for the mass market, becomes the star of cinema, starring in a James Bond movie.
The machine was made on the new BMW plant in the United States.



1999

BMW releases the first SUV - X5. The model is marketed as "sports car for an active lifestyle» - SAV (Sport Activity Vehicle).
The number "5" in the title indicates that served as the base sedan fifth series.



2001

Under the leadership of BMW's updated plant in Oxford (England) started production of a new car MINI.
Release the old Mini (the name of the new model is written in all capital beeches) stopped the year before. In total, since 1959, it has produced more than 5 million copies.



2002

The emergence of the new 7 Series marked the beginning of a new era of BMW. The design of the car, designed by Chris Benglom (Chris Bangle), was fundamentally different from anything that has been at the company before. And that's not all had to taste.
The car was first used computer system iDrive.



2004

Launches 1-series vehicle "Golf class". Traditionally, for BMW, the model has rear-wheel drive.

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This text I wrote for the multimedia encyclopedia BMW (information about the project on tupatapas.com); but first published on Yap!



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