• 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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      471 month ago

      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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      281 month 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.

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

      • IninewCrow
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        81 month 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’

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            191 month ago

            German for Bavarian Motor Works

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

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

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