the BMW logo myth

so everyone knew that it represents an airplane propeller, right ? well, wrong.

[www.autoblog.com]

and it's not a recent discovery - check out this 2005 document: [jeff.dean.home.att.net]

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A physics truck just turned over outside. There's physics everywhere!

Lalala I'm not listening.

Actually, to be nit-picky, it DOES represent a propeller, because that's what everyone thinks it is. However its original conception was not, I have now learned, inspired by a propeller.


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1989 - E30 - M20 - Manual. Approximately 270,000 miles
2000 - E46 - M52TUB28 - Manual. Approximately 110,000 miles

BMW built motors for Planes during WWII. The symbols does represent a propeller and the blue and white represents the sky and clouds.

Since 1929, BMW has been using the propeller story; so no matter what it might have represented before that; it doesn't matter.

What it is today is what BMW wants it to be...therefore; no myth

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jimmy_bones
BMW built motors for Planes during WWII. The symbols does represent a propeller and the blue and white represents the sky and clouds.

Did you read the article?

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Dave
'91 325iX