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Racing ahead

Updated on: 25 November,2010 08:09 AM IST  | 
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Aurangabad once again scores one up. The city's young entrepreneurs and industrialists formed a group and purchased 101 BMWs on a single day, creating history

Racing ahead

Aurangabad once again scores one up. The city's young entrepreneurs and industrialists formed a group and purchased 101 BMWs on a single day, creating history. Here are some facts on this high-end luxury car's brand:

>>u00a0Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company, which was founded in 1916.

>>u00a0After World War I, BMW was forced to cease aircraft (engine) production and so shifted to motorcycle production in 1923, followed by automobiles in 1928-29.

>> Its motorcycle brand is now known as BMW Motorrad. Their first successful motorcycle, after the failed Helios and Flink, was the R32 in 1923.

>> The circular blue and white BMW logo or roundel is portrayed as the movement of an aircraft propeller, to signify the white blades cutting through the blue sky.

>> It also owns and produces the Mini brand, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

>> According to BMW's annual reports in 2009, 1,068,770 vehicles were sold in all markets.




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