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BMW

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9ff

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What we compare	BMW	9ff
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	1916	2001
Founder	Karl Rapp	Jan Fatthauer
Headquarters	Munich, Bavaria, Germany	Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Name origin	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.	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.
Selected models	3/15, 328, Isetta, 507, M1, 3 Series	GT9, Speed9, GTurbo
Earliest archived brand logo	1917	2001
Latest archived logo	2020	2021
Archived logo assets	9	2

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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