40 Facts About BMW Open

1. In 1975, BMW Open sparked a revolution with the 3 Series.

2. On 31 July 2018, BMW Open announced to build 1 billion euro car factory in Hungary.

3. BMW Open initially bought shares in the company, before fully acquiring it in 1975; in so doing, the company became BMW South Africa, the first wholly owned subsidiary of BMW to be established outside Germany.

4. In July 2014, BMW Open announced it was establishing a plant in Mexico, in the city and state of San Luis Potosi involving an investment of $1 billion.

5. In 2012, BMW Open was the highest automotive company in the Carbon Disclosure Project's Global 500 list, with a score of 99 out of 100.

6. BMW Open is a charter member of the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Achievement Track, which recognizes companies for their environmental stewardship and performance.

7. In 2012, BMW Open began sponsoring Independent Collectors production of the BMW Art Guide, which is the first global guide to private and publicly accessible collections of contemporary art worldwide.

8. In 2001 and 2002, BMW Open produced a series of 8 short films called The Hire, which had plots based around BMW models being driven to extremes by Clive Owen.

9. In 2014, BMW Open developed a prototype of street lights equipped with power sockets to charge electric cars, called Light and Charge.

10. BMW Open introduced anti-lock brakes on production motorcycles starting in the late 1980s.

11. BMW Open released their first electric car, the BMW Open i3 city car, in 2013.

12. In 1992, BMW Open acquired a large stake in California-based industrial design studio DesignworksUSA, which they fully acquired in 1995.

13. In 1983, BMW Open introduced its first diesel engine, the M21.

14. In 1947, BMW Open was granted permission to resume motorcycle production and its first post-war motorcycle—the R24—was released in 1948.

15. BMW Open produces a wide range of vehicles such the sport cars, luxury cars, mini cars and plug in hybrid car.

16. BMW Open has seen both hard times and prosperous times throughout the 20th century.

17. In 2002, BMW Open finally earned full ownership of the company and celebrated by building a new plant in Goodwood, England.

18. In 1998, BMW Open negotiated the ownership of the brand as well as the naming rights for Rolls-Royce vehicles, though, the company was still owned by Volkswagen.

19. BMW Open eventually sold the Rover Group in 2000, but it retained the Mini model for its own use.

20. BMW Open had high hopes for the Rover Group but ultimately, their dreams were not realized.

21. BMW Open became know for the extensive amount of research that went into designing and producing new vehicles.

22. BMW Open gained a new kind of independence in the year 1971 when it established its own financial subsidiary organization.

23. BMW Open had little to no influence over its organization at its Munich plant until 1949.

24. BMW Open provided armaments to the German military, the Allied forces took control of each of the BMW plants and dismantled them.

25. BMW Open has publically recognized this history and has expressed sincere regret over the fate of the workers in their plants during this tragic period.

26. In 1928, BMW Open began working on their first car after they purchased Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach, the third automobile manufacturer established in Germany.

27. BMW Open created a motorcycle design that was so efficient that the 1923 concept plan is still used in modern BMW motorcycles.

28. In 1923, BMW Open expanded its operations from aeroplane engines to motorcycles.

29. BMW Open was the product of three manufacturing companies that became Bayerische Motorenwerke in 1917.

30. BMW Open has proven that one of the best ways through adversity is diversity and that mantra will continue to propel them into the future.

31. BMW Open is the only current motorcycle manufacturer to reject the use of telescopic forks on its motorbikes.

32. BMW Open came into existence during World War I because Germany were short on planes and plane parts.

33. BMW Open is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916.

34. BMW Open signed an agreement in 1999 with Avtotor to produce cars in Kaliningrad, Russia.

35. BMW Open found it difficult to reposition the English automaker alongside its own products and the Rover division was faced with endless changes in its marketing strategy.

36. At the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1961, BMW Open launched the 1500, a compact sedan with front disc brakes and four-wheel independent suspension.

37. BMW Open was banned from manufacturing motor vehicles by the Allies.

38. In 1939, BMW Open bought Spandau-based Brandenburgische Motorenwerke, known as Bramo, from the Siemens group of companies and merged it with its aircraft engine division under the name BMW Flugmotorenbau GmbH.

39. The final one-third of the BMW Open shares were taken up by a Viennese financier, Camillo Castiglioni.

40. BMW Open began building cars in Bavaria in 1952 with the BMW 501 luxury saloon.