Model histories by make
BMW.
5 researched BMW histories spanning 1955 to 1999, from the Isetta to the M3. 92 cited sources in all, with 22 claims where those sources disagree and we say so.
Isetta (Isetta 250 / 300 and BMW 600)
1955–1962
The BMW Isetta was not a BMW design. It began as the Iso Isetta, drawn for Renzo Rivolta's Milanese refrigerator and motorcycle firm by the engineers Ermen…
2002 (02 Series)
1968–1976
The BMW 2002 began as an improvisation. Alex von Falkenhausen, who ran engine development, and Helmut Werner Bonsch, who ran product planning, had each qui…
M5 (E28)
1985–1988
The BMW M5 (E28, 1985-1988) was the first car to wear the badge and the car that created the super-saloon class. It was a plain four-door body, assembled b…
M3 (E30)
1986–1991 · 17,970 built
The BMW M3 (E30) is the car that founded the M3 name, and it was born for one reason: to go racing. BMW needed a homologation special to qualify a 3 Series…
M3 (E36)
1992–1999
The E36 M3 (1992-1999) is where BMW M stopped building homologation specials and started building a product line. Where the E30 M3 was a four-cylinder Grou…
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