What do you wanna know exactly, Sean?

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First of all, let me tell you all that I\'ve come to this Kudoz question by accident. I received the request by mail, under the Spanish>English section. When I clicked on it, the asker had already changed it to English (monolingual) section. Now that I received a notification by mail about a peer comment, I see that the asker has changed it one more time to German>English. That\'s why I didn\'t understand what it was all about and asked for some more information.

Anyway, here\'s a list of references for the suggestion I\'ve posted. It seems the original name of the company is used in any language to explain what BMW stands for:

REFERENCES IN ENGLISH

Military-Vehicles: [MV] was: Mystery Jeep Trailers/now: KK towi-
... still RAL 7021 though and Andreas\' >KK towing tractor would look far better in Panzergrau than the bland silver >grey that Bayerisch Motoren Werke put on it. ...
www.mil-veh.org/archives/00-08/1424.html

FindLaw: Texas: Laws
... 31-98) Opinion of the Court. No. 99-0734 IN RE BAYERISCH MOTOREN WERKE, AG Dissenting Opinion. No. 99-0428 IN RE TEXAS FARMERS INSURANCE ...
www.findlaw.com/11stategov/tx/2000_1txsc.html

History Page 1
When BMW (Bayerisch Motoren Werke) started in 1928, there where 25 German Car brands
on the market, now this number shrunk to 7. BMW was founded on the 20th ...
bmwheaven.bmwsport.net/history/history_page1.htm

Pattaya Mail Business News
... Different from the German car maker Bayerisch Motoren Werke, which adopts a soft approach in forming BMW (Thailand) with its Thai partner earlier this year ...
www.pattayamail.com/312/business.htm

bus5
... close to the Ford management in the United States said Ford was expected to announce
this week that it is in the process of buying Bayerisch Motoren Werke AG ...
www.dispatch.co.za/1999/01/06/business/BUS5.HTM

Welcome to Korea Biweekly
... The BMW Group had its start in Bavaria, Germany, in 1916. BMW stands for Bayerisch Motoren Werke. Today, the group spans the world. ...
www.kisc.org/weekly/2001_09/foreign.htm

REFERENCES IN FRENCH

Histoire de BMW history
... Flugmaschinfabrik. La raison sociale d’abord modifiée en Bayerisch Flugzeug Werke donne finalement, en 1918, Bayerisch Motoren Werke (BMW). ...
www.histomobile.com/histomob/ presmark.asp?ID=7&lan=1

321 AUTO - Forum automobile - CHAT - site de communaute
Recherche. Accès Membres. Login Passwd. Je deviens membre. ...
www.autoatnet.com/321/communaute/communaute.asp

Guide BMW - Histoire - occasions - entretien - garages
Groupe BMW. Chronologie. 1917 : Création de la Bayerisch Motoren Werke, manufacture de moteurs d\'avion. L\'entreprise sera rapidement ...
www.321auto.com/guide_auto/constructeurs/bmw/bmw.asp

REFERENCES IN PORTUGUESE

BREVE HISTÓRIA DAS MOTAS BMW
... aviões. Em 1916 chama-se Bayerisch Flugzergwerk AG (BFW), só em 1917 é que se passa a chamar BMW (Bayerisch Motoren Werke). Como ...
www.terravista.pt/mussulo/1396/

REFERENCES IN SPANISH

LatinSite - El Punto de Encuentro en tu Idioma
... http://www.investmark.com.pa, 2/Jul/1999, Hits: 49. Invest Market, Inc. Panama. http://www.landrover.com.pa,
2/Jul/1999, Hits: 101. Bayerisch Motoren Werke AG, Panama. ...
www.latinsite.com/lalista/ sublista.asp?scID=19&page=9

LA TERCERA
... podría anunciar esta semana la compra de la fábrica alemana Bayerisch Motoren Werke
AG (BMW) y de la japonesa Honda Motors, indicaron ayer fuentes vinculadas ...
www.tercera.cl/diario/1999/01/06/55.html - 12k

Bavarian Motor Works

Bavarian motor factories.
Bavaria is one of the German former kingdoms, now one of the German states.
Greetings,

Nikolaus

It is I guess a nod to the company's origins in Bavaria (Munich if I'm not mistaken was where BMW was founded)

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