Before its merger with HP, it also sponsored the Williams Formula One team when it was still powered by BMW engines.

The Soviet Union built on German World War II development by Junkers ( BMW and Hirth / Daimler-Benz also developed and partially tested designs ).

As an important industrial and business center, the city is also home to an array of Mexican companies, including Pemex, Lanix Electronics, CEMEX, Vitro, Zonda Telecom, Mercedes-Benz Mexico, OXXO, Mastretta, BMW de Mexico, Mabe, Grupo Bimbo, DINA S. A., Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery ( Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma ), formerly fully owned by FEMSA now jointly owned with Heineken and Grupo ALFA.

At some point he also set the BMW on fire with fuel.

The book contains alternative suggestions for incorporating other donors including a BMW E36, Mazda MX-5 and also motorcycle engines.

Hill also became involved in a BMW dealership, just outside Royal Leamington Spa, that bore his name and an Audi dealership in Exeter.

The town is also home to the UK headquarters of BMW and the headquarters of Avis Europe.

BMW commercials were also filmed in the area in the 1990s.

Some additional buildings in adjacent lots were also eliminated to make way for a new BMW dealership and other commercial businesses.

Greer is also the site of the only BMW manufacturing facility in North America.

A BMW chief engineer, Dr. Fritz Fiedler, was also given employment.

BMW also experimented with a V-16, eventually showing a 9-litre (~ 550 CID ) version in the Rolls-Royce 100EX concept car, but it has been changed to a V12 for production due to the customer feedback.

BMW also supplied the M12 / 13 on a customer basis to the ATS, Arrows, Benetton and Ligier teams during this period, with various degrees of success.

BMW also revived the MG brand in 1995 on a new affordable sports car, the MGF, as well as strengthening Land Rover's position in the off-roader market.

Farr is also a designer of America's Cup competitors, including New Zealand's entries in 1986 ( co-designed with Ron Holland and Laurie Davidson ) and 2000, and Larry Ellison's United States's BMW Oracle Racing Challenger in 2003 ( accepted as Challenger of Record for the 2007 Cup ).

Hulme also started racing in Australia, racing in the team of former European compatriot Frank Gardner's JPS Team BMW, which included second in class at the 1984 Bathurst 1000.

They also provide automotive accessories to BMW, including trailer hitches.

In engineering terms, the PSA TU powerplants are carried over from the old car and Citroën also announced a new range of small petrol engines which PSA Peugeot Citroën developed in partnership with BMW.

FedEx operates a major package facility on the north end of the airport, and BMW also has a facility which allows for the importation of parts to be easily accessed to the company's manufacturing facility, located three miles to the east.

The town is also home to the UK headquarters of BMW Group

The ability to shift gears manually, often via paddle shifters, can also be found on certain automated transmissions ( manumatics such as Tiptronic ), semi-automatics ( BMW SMG ), and CVTs ( such as Lineartronic ).

He also raced in other formulae than single seaters, once finishing second in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship driving a Team Schnitzer BMW M3.

He also returned to touring car racing in the Japanese Touring Car Championship, finishing seventh in 1990 and 1991 in a BMW M3.

The new MINI, which had been developed at Longbridge by Rover Group and was due for launch within a year, along with marques ( Riley, Triumph ) and former-Rover trademarks ( Metro, Maxi ) were also strategically retained by BMW.

Berger was also successful in Group A touring cars during this time, racing for the highly rated German Schnitzer BMW team, driving the highly competitive BMW 635 Csi in the European Touring Car Championship.

Ownership of the original Rover Group marques is currently split between BMW ( Germany ), SAIC ( China ), and Tata Motors ( India ).

For instance, many BMW vehicles share a design language, including front-end styling consisting of a split kidney and four circular headlights.

The original version of the Rover 800 was one of the most popular cars in Britain's full-sized executive car market, which at this stage was effectively split into two strong sectors – mainstream brands such as Ford and Vauxhall, and prestige brands such as BMW and Audi.

All models are equipped with the BMW xDrive All Wheel Drive system, with a default 40: 60 torque split between the front and rear axles and has the ability to direct all the torque to either axle.

In 1994, the 2-litre Super Touring championship split off from the ATCC, though these cars ran at Bathurst that year alongside the V8s, with a top placing of 10th outright for the works BMW of Paul Morris / Altfrid Heger.

This can range from cheap vinyl imitation leather, found on some low cost vehicles, to real Napa leather, found on certain models of luxury car brands like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi.

Ford acquires the Rover trademark from BMW, who previously licensed its use to MG Rover Group

* Atmel AVR used in a variety of products ranging from Xbox handheld controllers to BMW cars.

Rather than using a customer chassis, the team commissioned a BMW powered design from Giacomo Caliri's FLY studios — previously responsible for the Fittipaldi Automotive team's F5A Formula One car.

The Motorcycles used in the chase from the castle were a mixed bag: the scout model with sidecar in which Indy and Henry escape was an original BMW R75, complete with machine gun pintle on the sidecar, while the pursuing vehicles were more modern machines dressed up with equipment and logos to make them resemble German army models.

Audi will switch from their A4 model and use the A5, Mercedes will use the Coupe version of their C-Class and BMW have announced their addition to the competition with their M3 Coupe.

The prestige of Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, Lotus, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and Aston Martin derives in part from success in sports car racing and the World Sportscar Championship.

Automotive brands can be summed up simply with their corporate logo — from the Chevrolet " Bow Tie " mark to the roundel marks of Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, to the interlocking " RR " of Rolls-Royce — each has stood for a brand and clearly differentiated the product line.

Pollard emerged from the BMW and went towards Bryant, who shot him in the chest, killing him.

Bryant then moved to the BMW and pulled Nixon and Helene Salzmann from the car and shot them dead, dragging their bodies onto the road.

Existing normally aspirated cars such as the BMW M3 could continue to compete under the Class C clause, unlike the turbocharged Ford Sierra and Nissan Skyline GT-R models which the new rules excluded from the category.

Other German experiments with JATO were aimed at assisting the launch of interceptor aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Me 262C, as the Heimatschützer special versions, usually fitted with either a version of the Walter HWK 109-509 liquid fuelled rocket engine from the Me 163 Komet program either in the extreme rear of the fuselage or semi -" podded " beneath it just behind the wing's trailing edge, to assist its Junkers Jumo 004 turbojets, or a pair of specially rocket-boosted BMW 003R combination jet-rocket powerplants in place of the Jumo 004s, so that the Me 262C Heimatschützer interceptors could reach enemy bomber formations sooner.

The Sauber team were bought out by BMW for the following season and Villeneuve struggled to score points, taking seven points from eleven rounds before suffering an injury in Germany.

Automobile and motorcycle manufacturer BMW manufactured the Italian Iso Rivolta Isetta under licence, using an engine from one of their own motorcycles.

In August 2001, the City of Fillmore introduced its first traffic enforcement motorcycle, a BMW bike, which was purchased with technology grant funds from the State.

The 319 BMW became the host wing as the 4133d Strategic Wing inactivated and command of the base transferred from the ADC to SAC.

* " BMW executive says Greer plant is vital to company's future ", a June 2005 article from The Greenville News

Shortly after additional runway improvements, in July 1949, the 28 BMW began conversion from B-29s to the huge B-36 Peacemaker.

Headquarters Strategic Air Command ( HQ SAC ) reassigned the 28 BMW from 8th Air Force back to 15th Air Force in October 1955.

This was followed by a formal letter of reprimand from the BMW Williams F1 team.

He announced, during that same month, that he would be taking a break from acting, in order to pursue a career in race car driving, under a full-time two-year deal with Jensen Motorsport in the Formula BMW competition.

The E61 BMW 5 Series Touring is expected to be dropped from BMW's North American lineup, due to slow sales in the United States with only 400 wagons sold in 2009.

Derived from immediately pre-WW2 BMW products ( thanks to a connection to BMW through Frazer Nash ), the chassis was based on the BMW 326, the engine on the 328, and the body on the 327.