History of BMW Motor Cars / Automobiles

• 8.6.2. BMW

• In 1928 the Bayrischen Motoren Werke Company acquired the Dixi factory and produced their first model, the BMW-Dixi 3/15, that year.
  
  

• Between about 1933 and 1939 BMW produced cars of their own design, including models 303, 327, 328 and the 335 sedan.

• The 501 model (1952-58) was the first car that the company produced after World War 2. Between 1955 and 1959 BMW also produced the Isetta, a single seat “bubble” car.

• The 697 cc 700 model was the most successful of the cars that BMW started producing in the 1950s, with nearly 190,000 being manufactured between 1959 and 1965.

• Other models produced during the 1950s include the 502, 503, 507 and the 600.

• In Soviet controlled East Germany BMWs factory was taken over and became known as the Eisenacher Motor-Werke EMW. Until 1951 EMW sold cars as  "BMWs" and then, until production ceased in 1955, as “EMWs”.

• Between 1960 and 1990 the company produced a range of models that inluded the 1500–2800 range, 528i, 628, 633, 635, 645Ci, 323i, M1, 528i, M5, M3, Z1 and the 750iL.

• Between 1977 and 2005 BMW produced over 9.5 million of their Series 3 cars.

• 2007 models include the 3, 5,6 & 7-Series, M5, M6, X3, X5 and Z4 cars.