BMW

The BMW story, short for the Bavarian Motor Works, began in nineteen thirteen, the original company named Rapp-Motorenwerke created by a man named Karl Rapp. It’s humble beginnings come from a former bicycle factory near Munich with Rapp manufacturing his own aircraft engines (quite a diverse start for a company that went on to produce motor cars). Unfortunately the design which Rapp himself had created was flawed, and as such he then has to move onto licensed building of Austro-Daimler aircraft engines.

In 1922 Rapp merged his company with another in the local vicinity becoming the BMW company that is known today.

In 1923 BMW diversify into motorcycles creating a 500cc model designed by Max Friz. Whilst their motorcycles were successful their aircraft engine production continued to prove successful with the first intercontinental flight to Persia being powered by a BMW engine. Nineteen twenty seven is a real landmark for BMW and the triumph of their aircraft engines with twenty nine out of the eighty seven records in aviation set that year coming from BMW engines.

The first BMW automobile model to be entirely developed in Munich came in nineteen thirty two with the twenty horsepower model the BMW 3/20 making a strong name for the company and it’s new developments in winning the Concours d'Elegance race.

From their first success in car manufacturing here, BMW continued from strength to strength to the strong brand it is today, a more recent milestone being the opening of its first USA manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina in nineteen ninety two.

Current BMW models on the market range in valuation from just over fifteen thousand pounds to just over eighty thousand pounds (brand new, of course). Car insurance groups are moderate as they range from ten to nineteen.