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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 102 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's also a reference to the bavarian flag.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks 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'