BMW has long history of their existance. You can observe the following stories about the history.
Here is The history of BMW from times to times. Although BMW is known as a manufacturer of luxury cars, at first not so. At awanya this company does not make the car, but make airplanes and motorcycles.
The first car built by BMW called the Dixi 3/15 and even then not their creation. Dixi is a true British Austin Seven and made in Germany Einsenach under license.
After that, the head of BMW Franz Josef Popp BMW memuutuskan that it was time to expand the business other than airplanes and motorcycles.
After the first World War, inflation was rampant in Germany. Selling luxury car when it was almost guaranteed to fail. That is why Popp creates cars are cheap and affordable.
For this purpose, he was appointed Professor Kamm Wunibald to design a revolutionary low-cost car. Sadly the vehicle failed and finally decided to build a BMW back Austin in 1927 in order to get to know the ins and outs of the automotive industry.
After successful for one year, and BMW bought Dixi company began installing blue logo with a white circle on a new car called the 3/15. The new model is different from the previous and evolved over the years under the supervision of Max Friz.
But the great depression that hit the world in 1930 just makes the BMW managed to sell 19,000 units of production for 4 years (1927-1932). When the models 3/15 DA consists of 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The first model has a 747 cc engine-powered 15 hp with a 3-speed manual transmission. The vehicle can run up to 75 km / h and has a fuel consumption of 18 km / liter.
The second model, DA-2 has the same specifications. Technical change only occurs on some components such as brakes on all four wheels, larger tires and final drive ratio is lower.
DA-3 Wartburg is a roadster and BMW's first sports car. The engine has a power of 18 hp. Ttersebut car lower and only 400 kg lighter. While the last model (DA-4) is the first BMW car with independent front suspension.
Wartburg is introduced to coincide with major depression that swept the world in 1930 makes this sport-utility vehicle sold only 150 units and BMW halt production in 1931. In 1932, BMW halt production of the model 3/15 to be replaced with a better version and more powerful models is 3/20.
