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BMW Group brands

Munich maker of BMW cars and motorcycles, MINI and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.

BMW Group owns 3 brands today: BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce.

Founded
1916
BMW 3 Series in grey
Its most registered: BMW 3 Series
  1. BMW logo BMW
  2. Mini logo Mini
  3. Rolls-Royce logo Rolls-Royce

Brands BMW Group owns today

Most registered first, each with its most registered models.

Also holds the name of: Austin-Healey, Riley, Triumph.

BMW Group timeline

  1. Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG, forerunner of BMW, established.

  2. Financier Camillo Castiglioni acquires the engine business and name; company becomes Bayerische Motoren Werke.

  3. BMW offers British Aerospace £800 million for its 80% of Rover Group and later buys Honda's 20%.

  4. Volkswagen, not BMW, buys Rolls-Royce/Bentley from Vickers in 1998; BMW holds the right to the Rolls-Royce name from 2003.

  5. BMW sells Land Rover to Ford and the rest of Rover to the Phoenix consortium and keeps MINI.

  6. Earliest date BMW can use the Rolls-Royce name; Phantom unveiled 2003-01-06.

Brands BMW Group used to own

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