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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed .... which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it's the image of a spinning propeller

Just don't ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago

Nintendo started off making playing cards, that's why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Just don't ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Silent movies with Chaplin?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's also a reference to the bavarian flag.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes .... and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works ... its actually 'Bayerische Motoren Werke'

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

German for Bavarian Motor Works

God damit! .... I was right all along ... just in the wrong language!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

That’s awesome

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

Stay on target.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

But also resemble a motor with three pistons.