In 2000 Rover Group was broken-up by BMW and Land Rover was sold to Ford Motor Company, becoming part of its Premier Automotive Group.

* 2000: BMW breaks up the Rover Group and sells Land Rover to Ford for £ 1. 8 billion

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

Porsche's design and development efforts paid off during the 1978 European Car of the Year competition where the 928 won ahead of the BMW 7-series and the Ford Granada.

Non-candy products featured in Seinfeld include Rold Gold pretzels ( whose advertisements at the time featured Jason Alexander ), Kenny Rogers Roasters ( a chicken restaurant chain ), Oreo Cookies, Triscuits, Ben & Jerry's, H & H Bagels, Baskin-Robbins, Dockers, Drake's Coffee Cakes, Ring Dings, Pepsi, Mello Yello, Snapple, Clearly Canadian, Bosco Chocolate Syrup, Kix ( cereal ), Cadillac, Saab, Ford Escort, Tyler Chicken ( a parody of Tyson Chicken ), Specialized Bicycles, Nike, BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Tupperware, Calvin Klein, Klein Bicycles, Ovaltine, Yoo-hoo, Arby's, TV Guide, Trump Tower, Glide Floss, Gore-Tex, Entenmann's, J. Peterman clothing catalog, and the board games Risk, Boggle, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and Battleship.

Common models are currently sold in North America include: Acura MDX, BMW X5, Ford Edge, Chevrolet Equinox, Dodge Journey, Nissan Murano, Hyundai Santa Fe, Land Rover Discovery, Toyota Highlander, Kia Sorento, Volkswagen Touareg and Volvo XC90.

Manufacturers represented by privateers include BMW, Vauxhall, Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen and Audi.

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.

Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include Lanix, Hyundai, Sony, Vortec, BMW, Vizio, Toyota, Dell, Samsung, Kodak, Matsushita / Panasonic, Bimbo, GE, Nabisco, Ford, Microsoft, Cemex, Zonda, Philips, Pioneer, Airbus, Plantronics, Siemens, Jaguar, Pall Medical, Tara, Sanyo, Volkswagen and vimay.

Alfa Romeo, AMC, Aston Martin, Audi, Austin, Bentley, BMW, Cadillac, Caterham, Checker, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Citroen, DeTomaso, Dodge, Ferrari, Fisker, Ford, GMC ,, Hillman, Holden, Honda, Hummer, Infiniti, Isuzu, Jaguar, Jeep, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Lotus, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mercury, MG, Mini, Mitsubishi, Morgan, Nissan, Oldsmobile, Opel, Plymouth, Pontiac, Porsche, Renault, Rolls-Royce, Saab, Scion, Shelby, Smart, Studebaker, Subaru, Toyota, TVR, Vauxhall, Volkswagen, Volvo, Yamaha

Straight-6 engines are used in some models from BMW, Ford Australia, Chevrolet, GMC, Toyota, Suzuki and Volvo Cars.

The firing sequence is odd ( BMW M5, Dodge Viper, Ford 6. 8 V10 ).

Exceptions to the shift to V6 engines include BMW, which specializes in high-performance straight-sixes used in a lineup of front-engine / rear-wheel-drive vehicles, Volvo, which designed a compact straight-six engine / transmission package to fit transversely in its larger cars, and the Australian Ford Falcon, which still uses a straight-six configuration.

Other European OEM standards are from General Motors ( dexos ), the Ford " WSS " standards, BMW Special Oils and BMW Longlife standards, Porsche, and the PSA Group of Peugeot and Citroën.

These experiments culminated in a joint project by the Forschungsgemeinschaft Automobil-Technik ( FAT ), a conglomeration of all seven German car makers ( Audi, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Opel ( GM ), Porsche, and Volkswagen ), which tested the applicability of two emerging commercial crash simulation codes.

The Rover brand, which had been retained by BMW and licensed to MG Rover, was sold to Ford, which had bought Land Rover from BMW in 2000.

BMW had acquired the Rover Group from British Aerospace in 1994 and had since sold the Land Rover business to Ford, and split-off the MINI business as a new BMW subsidiary based in Cowley.

, series production all-electric cars available in some countries include the Tesla Roadster, REVAi, Buddy, Mitsubishi i MiEV, Tazzari Zero, Nissan Leaf, Smart ED, Wheego Whip LiFe, Mia electric, BYD e6, Bolloré Bluecar, Renault Fluence Z. E., Ford Focus Electric, BMW ActiveE, Coda, and Tesla Model S. The Leaf, with more than 32, 000 units sold worldwide by early July 2012, is the world's top-selling highway-capable all-electric car.

Rolls Royce, BMW and General Motors joined Ford and Toyota as customers.

Its members include: Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen Group, Volvo, Ford, DAF, Renault, Fiat Group, Scania AB, Porsche, Mercedes, PSA Peugeot Citroën, and MAN AG.

On the way they were informed to look for a BMW and eventually they were informed of people at the Fox and Hound who had been shot.

" Bakshi found Krantz's claims dubious, as the producer had recently purchased a new BMW and a mansion in Beverly Hills.

This had a capacity of, and was highly competitive against the BMW straight-sixes.

However, these wagons had fewer trim and powertrain levels than their sedan counterparts, for instance the wagon styles of high-performance trims such as the BMW M5, Audi RS6, Mecedes-Benz E63 AMG were never imported to North America.

Mesrine and Jeanjacquot had reached Porte de Clignancourt on the outskirts of Paris when the gold BMW they were driving was boxed in at the entrance to an intersection and police marksmen in the rear of a lorry immediately in front of their car threw open a tarpaulin.

* may enable consolidation / simplification of a manufacturer's car lineup ; for instance the current BMW Z4 ( E89 ) is offering only as a coupé-convertible ( hardtop ), compared to the preceding E85 generation that had separate coupé and cabriolet ( soft-top ) variants.

The company operated out of a former BMW car dealership building in Palo Alto, California, which it had been able to obtain for very low rent, but the space was suboptimal for technology development.

That was not BMW's first foray into V-16: BMW had conceived the Project Goldfish, adding four cylinders to the BMW M70 V-12 motor.

The BMW Goldfish V16 motor had the displacement of 6. 7-litre ( 414 CID ), putting out about 408 hp ( 304 kW ) and 637 N · m ( 470 lb · ft ).

Cristiano da Matta's pole time of 1m 18. 959s was 6. 123 seconds shy of 1999 CART champion Juan Pablo Montoya's stunning pole-winning effort aboard the BMW / Williams at the 2002 GP-which was exactly the sort of discrepancy da Matta had predicted in the run-up to the event, any way the fastest time for a Champ Car in the same weekend was only 3. 97 seconds above Montoya's record, set by Tagliani in Practice.

By, the relationship between BMW and Williams had detoriated, and BMW chose to part company and buy the rival Sauber team outright.

Neerpasch had arranged the sale of Rosche's M12 / 13 engine to Talbot, but Rosche and Neerpasch's successor, Dieter Stappert, successfully protested to their board that such an undertaking deserved full works commitment, particularly as the fact that M12 / 13 was derived from a production road car engine meant that potential success could be extremely valuable to BMW from a marketing and sales point of view.

Volkswagen Group won the auction with a bid of US $ 780 million, but Rolls-Royce plc, which had the right to block a transfer of the Rolls-Royce name to non-British owners, agreed to sell the rights to BMW for US $ 65 million.

The X-4 met these specifications and more ; its BMW 109-448 rocket motor accelerated the missile to over 1, 150 km / h ( 715 mph ) and kept it there during its " cruise ", between 1. 5 and 4 km ( 0. 9-2. 5 mi ), while the defensive guns had a maximum effective range of about 1000 m ( 1, 094 yd ).

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.

For example, the 2006 rally included a 1983 BMW 732i which appeared to be incapable of making it out of England but in fact did complete the course ; a Fiat Uno which performed fantastically and even pushed the previously mentioned BMW up a mountain ; some Renault 19s and a VW Beetle.

The 2005 Stirling Prize shortlist contained a number of buildings ( most notably Zaha Hadid's BMW Central Building and the eventual winner, Enric Miralles ' Scottish Parliament Building ) featuring significant amounts of exposed concrete, something that would have been regarded as aesthetically unacceptable when the prize was inaugurated nine years previously.

Launched in 2002, the W211 E-Class was another evolution of the previous model and was considered by the motoring media as an even more competitive offering to the long term rival BMW 5-Series ( which previously was the preferred choice of the motoring media ).

A consortium led by the Deutsche Bank and the Diskonto-Gesellschaft purchased the BMW shares previously held by Camillo Castiglioni, who was facing problems of liquidity.

BMW M GmbH ( previously: BMW Motorsport GmbH ) is a subsidiary of German car manufacturer BMW AG.

Launched in 2002, the W211 E-Class was another evolution of the previous model and was considered by the motoring media as a more competitive offering to the long-term rival BMW 5-Series ( which previously was the preferred choice of the motoring media ).