BMW History

The BMW story has not always been smooth and easy. Yet every time crises arise, the company managed to cope with them and emerged more powerful after such challenging periods. Ever since its birth in…

BMW has a tradition of designing beautiful and stylish exterior mirrors. From the early ’90s to the present day, I virtually look back and examine the history of some of the most attractive and varied…

People have been talking about the meaning of the BMW logo for literally decades. Officials have been adamant about what it is supposed to mean, but some people always thought they knew best. Ask random…

In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted his famous Guernica as a protest reaction to the crimes of fascism in Spain. The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6. George VI’s coronation at Westminster Abbey took place on…

26 year old Münchner Oliver Sold is a passionate photographer and one of his subjects is the Bavarian brand with the blue and white roundel. Inspired by the 100 year anniversary of BMW, Sold devoted his bachelor…

Let’s sit down and talk about cars. Let’s talk about the past, the present and the future. Let’s talk about how things used to be and how they are now. We have to. Why? Because…

The newly launched BMW G30 5 Series reinforced once again BMW’s claims of being the best in the segment. The new 5er is actually the seventh iteration of the Bavarian model with more than 40…

The German economic miracle, the ‘Wirtschaftwunder’, was predicated by the western allies currency reform – the replacement of the old Reichsmark with the new Deutschmark, tax reform, and the Marshall Plan. It aided Germany in…

One of the few things Germany did not have a shortage of at the end of World War II was rubble. There were over 400 million cubic meters of rubble on the streets of Germany…

This video from Donut Media follows the evolution of the BMW 3 Series, from the E21-chassis 1975 316  and the E30 M3 to the F80-chassis 2015 M3. Over its lengthy existence, BMW 3 Series has…