Bmw Stand For In English

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By Joe Bruzek

September 1, 2016

Q: What does BMW stand for?

A: BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke, or, translated into English, Bavarian Motor Works. If you're a footling rusty on globe geography, Bavaria is a southern state in Germany where BMW originally started making airplane engines around 1917. The current BMW group is equanimous of BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce, with its headquarters in Bavaria's majuscule, Munich.

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If Bavarian Motor Works is too formal for your taste, the High german automaker'southward luxury models are colloquially known by the nickname Bimmer, while the company too fancies itself "the ultimate driving motorcar" — at least co-ordinate to its long-running advert campaign in the U.s..

From the company'southward official bio: "BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the Usa since 1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW Grouping in the United states has grown to include marketing, sales, and fiscal service organizations for the BMW make of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; Designworks, a strategic design consultancy based in California; engineering science offices in Silicon Valley, Chicago and various other operations throughout the country. BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group's global manufacturing network and is the manufacturing institute for all X5 and X3 Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 and X4 Sports Activeness Coupes. The BMW Grouping sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 344 BMW passenger car and BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 153 BMW motorcycle retailers, 127 MINI rider car dealers, and 36 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (The states) Holding Corp., the BMW Grouping's sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey."

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