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Latest archived mark · 2020

BMW

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ABT

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What we compare	BMW	ABT
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	1916	1991
Founder	Karl Rapp	Abt family
Headquarters	Munich, Bavaria, Germany	Kempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, 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.	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.
Selected models	3/15, 328, Isetta, 507, M1, 3 Series	Audi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR
Earliest archived brand logo	1917	—
Latest archived logo	2020	1990s
Archived logo assets	9	1

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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