BMW Motorcycle History

The legendary German marque that is so well known for its cars actually has its roots in motorcycles. BMW’s first motorcycle, the R32, st...

Few know that BMW started as a manufacturer of aircraft engines. In October 1913 Karl Friedrich Rapp establishes Rapp-Motorenwerke in a f...

    Rapp's company has secured a contract with Prussia and Austro-Hungary to produce 25 large V12 aircraft engines. Rapp Motoren Werke h...

Popp and Castiglioni forced Rapp out of the company who needs to depart in this year. advertising In 1917, BMW's first aircraft ...

In 1918 this engine powered a biplane to 5,000 meters altitude in just 29 minutes. It was an impressive performance in the BMW histor...

           After the armistice was signed, the Allies prohibited German military to produce aircraft engines. Therefore BMW turned to boat...

The tough business climate at the end of WW1 made Castiglioni to sell his holdings for 28 million Reichsmarks to the chief executive of Kno...