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Latest archived mark · 2021

9ff

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BMW

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What we compare	9ff	BMW
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	2001	1916
Founder	Jan Fatthauer	Karl Rapp
Headquarters	Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Name origin	Wikipedia does not explain where the name 9ff comes from. It does record that the company was founded by Jan Fatthauer and that it specializes in Porsche conversions. The 9 may allude to the Porsche 911 line, but that is an assumption and not a documented fact.	BMW is an acronym for Bayerische Motoren Werke, German for Bavarian Motor Works. The name was adopted in 1917 when Rapp Motorenwerke was renamed, and it was later transferred to the aircraft maker Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, which became today's BMW AG in 1922.
Selected models	GT9, Speed9, GTurbo	3/15, 328, Isetta, 507, M1, 3 Series
Earliest archived brand logo	2001	1917
Latest archived logo	2021	2020
Archived logo assets	2	9

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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