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BMW originally an initialism for Bayerische Motoren Werke in German, or Bavarian Motor Works in English) is usually a German multinational company which currently produces luxury automobiles and motorcycles, and in addition produced aircraft engines until 1945.The company was founded in 1916 and contains its headquarters in Munich, Bavaria. BMW produces automobiles in Germany, Brazil, China, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, along with the United States. In 2015, BMW was earth's twelfth largest producer of motorcars, with 2,279,503 vehicles produced. The Quandt family are long-term shareholders from the company, together with the remaining shares of public float.Automobiles are marketed beneath the brands BMW (with sub-brands BMW M for performance models and BMW i for plug-in electric cars), Mini and Rolls-Royce. Motorcycles are marketed within the brand BMW Motorrad.The name BMW can be an abbreviation for Bayerische Motoren Werke. The German name isn't grammatically correct, because motorenwerke can be a single word in German. The term Bayerische Motorenwerke (that has been used in several German publications and advertisements before) could result in English as Bavarian Motor Works, that has been used by BMW for marketing products in English-speaking countries. The suffix AG, short for Aktiengesellschaft, signifies an incorporated entity which is of shareholders.The terms Beemer, Bimmer and Bee-em are usually used slang for BMW inside the English language and therefore are sometimes used interchangeably for cars and motorcycles.In the United States, a number of people prescribe that "beemer" needs to be used especially for motorcycles and "bimmer" ought to be used for cars. Some of these people report that "true aficionados" makes distinction and those that don't are "uninitiated." Usage in North American mainstream media also varies, for example The Globe and Mail of Canada prefers Bimmer and calls Beemer a "yuppie abomination", along with the Tacoma News Tribune says it is "auto snobs" who makes use of the terms to differentiate between cars and motorcycles.The circular blue and white BMW logo or roundel evolved from the circular Rapp Motorenwerke logo, where the BMW company grew, combined together with the blue and white colors with the flag of Bavaria. The BMW logo still used today appeared in 1917, albeit with some other minor styling changes.The origin in the logo is frequently thought to be a portrayal from the movement of your aircraft propeller using the white blades cutting by having a blue sky. However, this portrayal was first employed in a BMW advertisement in 1929 - twelve years following the logo was developed - so this isn't the origin from the logo itself.

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