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BMW Motorrad is the motorcycle brand and division of German automotive manufacturer, BMW. [1] It has produced motorcycles since 1923, and achieved record sales for the fifth year in succession in 2015. With a total of 136,963 vehicles sold in 2015, BMW registered a growth of 10.9% in sales in comparison with 2014. [2] In May 2011, the 2,000 ...
The first single-cylinder BMW motorcycle was the 1925 BMW R 39, which was BMW's smallest model and used a 250 cc (15.3 cu in) engine. It was not successful and was discontinued in 1927. [5] The next single-cylinder motorcycle was the BMW R 2, which was released in 1931. [6] It used a 200 cc (12.2 cu in) engine and could therefore be ridden in ...
The BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC, also known as BMW Spartanburg, is the BMW Group's only assembly facility in the United States, and is located in Greer, South Carolina. [11] The plant is currently BMW's major global production site for the X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, and XM crossover SUVs, [ 12 ] whose biggest market is the U.S., while other BMW models ...
The entire BMW Motorcycle production has, since 1969, been located at the company's Berlin-Spandau factory. During the Second World War, BMW produced the BMW R75 motorcycle with a motor-driven sidecar attached, combined with a lockable differential, this made the vehicle very capable off-road. [53] [54]
The origins of the BMW Group's Dingolfing plant go back to the former Hans Glas GmbH, which had been based in Dingolfing since 1905.In 1967 BMW took over Hans Glas, in 1968 the production of chassis parts and motorcycle parts for BMWs began, [2] production of the Goggomobil continued until 1969.
The BMW R1100RS is a sport-touring motorcycle that was manufactured by BMW Motorrad between 1993 and 2001, [3] and was the first BMW motorcycle to use the R259 "Oilhead" boxer engine. Design [ edit ]
In 1940 People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union acknowledged the lag in motorized vehicles and decided to choose a foreign platform to build upon. In 1941 a factory was built which is known today as IMZ-Ural with Nikolai Serdyukov as its head constructor because he was doing an internship in BMW factories in Munich, Spandau and Eisenach from 1935 till 1940 and worked his way up to ...
Production began at BMW's Spandau plant in December 2011, [2] and they were expected to be available in Europe in Spring 2012, [4] and in the US in Fall 2012 for the 2013 model year. [5] BMW has shown an electric motorcycle concept vehicle based on a similar size frame and similar styling. [6] [7] The C-series engine is built by Kymco company ...