In the 1930s, BMW pilots were successful with the BMW 328 two-litre sports car, winning many races including the prestigious Mille Miglia — a class win in 1938 and the outright winner ( with a streamlined body on a shortened course ) in 1940 with Huschke von Hanstein.

They are or were used in: the Volkswagen Beetle, some Porsche and Subaru cars, many BMW and Honda motorcycles, and aircraft engines ( for propeller driven aircraft ), etc.

BMW and Ford had previously retained ownership of the Rover brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which ' Rover ' might be confused in the US 4x4 market ; the Rover brand was originally used under license by MG Rover until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was re-acquired by the then Ford Motor Company owned Land Rover Limited.

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

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.

Other post-war projects included Bristol Cars, which used pre-war BMW designs as the basis for the Bristol 400.

* Other: 2 BMW motorcycles ( 31-32 ) donated by JMK BMW of Springfield, NJ and a Chevy Tahoe used by the Chief of Police.

The car used by the client will typically be a large sedan with a low center of gravity and a powerful engine, such as a BMW or Mercedes Benz.

HJ Aldington, a director of the Bristol Aeroplane Company affiliated AFN ( BMW's pre-war concessionaire in the UK ), used his British Army connections to visit the bombed BMW factory in Munich several times post-war.

Until 1961, all Bristol cars used derivatives of a six-cylinder BMW engine.

The Indian 841 was heavily inspired by the BMW R71 motorcycle used by the German Army at the time, as was its competitor, the Harley-Davidson XA.

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

BMW has used air-or air / oil-cooled flat-twin engines in its motorcycles from 1923 until the present day.

The 1923 BMW R32 used a similar engine position with a drive shaft using bevel gears to power the rear axle.

Flat-twin engines were used in several economy cars, including the Citroën 2CV, the Panhard Dyna X and Dyna Z, Steyr-Puch 500, DAF Daffodil, BMW 600, several Jowett cars between World Wars I and II, and the Toyota Publica and Toyota Sport 800.

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.

They continued to be used by BL's Austin Rover Group and its successor the Rover Group, which was eventually bought by BMW, and then by a management consortium, leading to the creation of MG Rover.

In, Brabham temporarily withdrew from the sport and BMW withdrew its official backing from the engines, which were still used by the Arrows team under the Megatron badge.

* Automatic Stability Control, a term used by BMW Motorrad to refer to their traction control system

During World War II, German troops used many BMW and Zündapp sidecar motorcycles.

Berger's helmet originally was blue with yellow lines and azure and white details near the visor In 1986, during his first spell at Benetton he used a different design that complimented the livery of the Benetton BMW.

Rotax engines have been used in scooters by Aprilia, NV Nederlandse Scooterfabriek ( Bitri scooters ), BMW and Lohner.

Instead of using an integrated starter generator, BMW has used an enhanced-starter which is nothing more than a conventional starter, developed by Robert Bosch GmbH, that can withstand the increased number of engine-starts in a stop-start vehicle.

Since this battery experiences very different load characteristics than a normal car battery, BMW used an absorptive glass mat type instead.

Perhaps ironically, what was essentially a new engine developed by Volkswagen Group engineers for the RL in 2001, was now producing the same sort of power as the original BMW V8 4. 4 engine used in the first Arnage in 1998.

A sporty model badged 4. 8is was also released a few years later replacing the 4. 6 engine with a 4. 8-litre ( also developed by Alpina and used in Alpina Roadster V8, based on BMW E52 Z8 ).

There is no BMW M version of the 7 Series, as BMW did not want its flagship saloon to be powered by a high-revving engine, and as the recent top-performing versions ( usually the BMW 760Li ) have V12 engines which while powerful are considered too heavy for a sporty offshoot.

Since the pre-war BMW 328 model, BMW had a reputation for sporty production cars.

Only the pre-war origin BMW VI V12 of Germany was an " upright " engine.

The early years of the post-war World Drivers ' Championship saw private BMW racing cars, based on the pre-war BMW 328 chassis, entered in the 1952 and 1953 German Grands Prix.

The R24 was based on the pre-war R23, and was the only postwar West German BMW with no rear suspension.

The XG 4-cylinder of 1, 776 cc, first tested in October 1943, was based on the 1. 5-litre Standard block and used its single cam-in-block to operate the opposed valves via a complicated crossover pushrod arrangement, similar to that of the pre-war BMW 328.

Loof was also a famous motorcycle racer and designer, who scored numerous successes in pre-war years for Imperia of Bad Godesberg and for BMW.

These cars were entirely unrelated to the chain-drive pre-war Frazer Nash, but were largely a direct evolution of the sporting BMW 328, mentioned above.

The BMW 328 is a sports car made by BMW between 1936 and 1940, with the body design credited to Peter Szymanowski, who became BMW chief of design after World War II ( although technically the car was designed by Fritz Fiedler ).

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.

* BMW ( 327 / 318, 327, 328, and 335 )

For the automobile, see Volvo 340, Ferrari 348, BMW 315, BMW 328 and Porsche 356.

The race was won by Frank Pratt driving a BMW 328.

Despite being populated ( due to the circumstances even more than usual ) mainly by Italian makers, it was the aerodynamically improved BMW 328 driven by Germans Huschke von Hanstein / Walter Bäumer that won the high-speed race at an all-time high average of.

The earliest use of " Kamm " to describe an automobile body incorporating this design was the prototype 1940 ' Kamm ' Coupe based on a BMW 328 chassis.

* 1940 BMW 328 " Mille Miglia " Kamm coupé

Prior to World War II, Touring gained fame for their Superleggera bodies, particularly those made for the Alfa Romes 8C 2900 and the BMW 328 chassis.

BMW 328 Touring Coupé

* 1940s BMW 328

He finished third in the 1940 Mille Miglia in the BMW 328.

BMW 328 Mille Miglia coupé

He contributed to the design of the BMW 328 sports car in the late 1930s.

Among his close friends were Jaguar founder William Lyons ( to whom he lent his BMW 328 for detailed mechanical investigation during the planning and design of the Jaguar XK120 ) and Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix engineering supremo Rudolf Uhlenhaut.

Winner, Torquay Rally, BMW 328.

* 1938: 3rd, RAC Rally, BMW 328.