• IninewCrow
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      BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed … which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it’s the image of a spinning propeller

      Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

      • @[email protected]
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        Nintendo started off making playing cards, that’s why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

      • @[email protected]
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        272 days ago

        This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

      • Ragdoll X
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        Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

      • Lord Wiggle
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        Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

      • Ephera
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        The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.

        • IninewCrow
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          72 days ago

          Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’

            • IninewCrow
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              172 days ago

              German for Bavarian Motor Works

              God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!

    • @kn33
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      Then they moved to motorcycle forks

      • Boxscape
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        Then they moved to motorcycle forks

        Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

        Stay on target.