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- BMW is an independent German automobile,manufacture founded in 1916.
- BMW is a worldwide manufacturer of Highperformance and premium automobiles and motorcycles, and is the current parent company of both the MINI and Rolls-Royce car brands.
- History Of BMW
After World War I, BMW (and Germany) were forced to cease aircraft (engine) production by the terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty.The company consequently shifted to motorcycle production in 1923 once the restrictions of the treaty started to be lifted, followed by automobiles in 1928.The circular blue and white BMW logo or roundel is often alleged to portray the movement of an airplane propeller, an interpretation that BMW adopted for convenience in 1929, which was actually twelve years after the roundel was created.In fact, the emblem evolved from the circular Rap Motorenwerke company logo, from which the BMW company grew. The Rap logo was combined with the blue and white colors of the flag of Bavaria to produced the BMW roundel so familiar today. Thus, the logo was created before BMW ever tested an airplane engine.BMW's first significant aircraft power plant was the BMW IIIa in line-six liquid-cooled engine of 1918, much preferred for its high-altitude performance.With German rearmament in the 1930s, the company again began producing aircraft engines for thev LuftWaff Among its successful WWII engine designs were the BMW 132 and BMW 801 air-cooled radial engines, and the pioneering BMW 003axial-flow turbojet, which powered the world's first operational jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262 BMW AG bought the British Rover Group (which at the time consisted of the Rover,Land Rover and brands as well as the rights to defunct brands including Austin and Morris) in 1994 and owned it for six years. By 2000, Rover was making huge losses and BMW decided to sell the combine. The MG and Rover brands were sold to the Phoenix Consortium to form MG, while Land Rover was taken over by Ford. BMW, meanwhile, retained the rights to build the new MINI, which was launched in 2001.The dominating shareholder of the BMW Aktiengesellschaft
