...that the BMW Turbo released in 1972 was the first car to incorporate ground-breaking vehicle-safety innovations? ABS, renewable crumple zones, radar distance sensors and many other features that didn’t become standard equipment until years later. | |
… that the software in a modern luxury car like the BMW 7 Series has more than double the number of lines of software code (approx. 100 million) used in Windows 7, which has approx. 40 million lines? | |
…that the BMW E1 prototype unveiled for the first time at the 1991 Frankfurt Motor Show is considered the world’s first real fully-fledged modern electric car? | |
…that one in three BMWs is delivered with xDrive all-wheel-drive? | |
…since 1973 all advertising for BMW automobiles and motorcycles has featured the slogan “Sheer driving pleasure” still used today? |