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Latest archived mark · 1990s

ABT

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BMW

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What we compare	ABT	BMW
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	1991	1916
Founder	Abt family	Karl Rapp
Headquarters	Kempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany	Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Name origin	ABT is the surname of the Abt family of Kempten im Allgäu. The family business goes back to 1896, when Johann Baptist Abt's blacksmith and horseshoeing tradition began, and Abt Sportsline GmbH was founded in 1991.	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	Audi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR	3/15, 328, Isetta, 507, M1, 3 Series
Earliest archived brand logo	—	1917
Latest archived logo	1990s	2020
Archived logo assets	1	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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