Comments on: Living a lie: BMW logo not based on spinning propeller

By: Alexander Matthews

Alexander Matthews — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:57:53 +0000

This is for Zack Scott.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:52:06 +0000

One-77, didn’t “the public” get that idea from Will Smith? Wasn’t it a line in Bagger Vance?

By: beemerdude

beemerdude — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:24:30 +0000

My dad – who was born and raised in Germany – is 86 years old.

He always said that the BMW logo is based on THE MOTOR FLYWHEEL ON A SEWING MACHINE.

Yes, BMW traces it’s roots to the production of sewing machine motors. Long before airplanes and automobiles.

BMW may deny this, but it’s the real story!

By: One-77

One-77 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:22:51 +0000

it doesn’t say that BMW themselves told people it was based on the propeller…

By: One-77

One-77 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:21:33 +0000

but if they found at the museum, they weren’t living a lie. that’s just what people thought for so many years from other people spreading it falsely

By: BAD124

BAD124 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:22:47 +0000

howsmydriving – peace symbol? I always thought it was a new type of cross hair design to aim for lesser pedestrians that get in the way ?

By: BAD124

BAD124 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:18:37 +0000

I think it would do good for the execs to learn where they came from and get back to their roots. They are diluting themselves with all these ridiculous mass market abortions like the X6/5 series GT

By: Autopilot

Autopilot — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:29:18 +0000

I’ve always wondered if Enzo Ferrari knew that his Ferrari Shield is almost identical to Stuttgart’s Coat of Arms.

By: A4

A4 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:15:24 +0000

Borat… I get sh!t for being a Masshole… yet you continue to grace our world with television shows like Jersey Shore? Cmon man. Shoulda known.

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:11:11 +0000

Mark- Oh, alright. Lots of people get the origin confused, I just noticed you guys had quite a few good articles Friday with new stuff, and then two sorta stale articles. Don’t mean to come by as harsh either

leftwing-… EVERYONE who’s owned a BMW badge of course!

By: scratchy

scratchy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:02:14 +0000

they could have just ask anyone in Europe, everyone knows that’s the Bavarian flag on the BMW logo. i’ll help you with the next “mystery”, the colours on the Porsche badge are the German flag colours ! stay tuned for the horse and deer horns explanation…

By: wyVern

wyVern — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:17:00 +0000

When i read the article I wondered why some1 cares what a logo stands for and why LLN bother themselves and write the article, but after I read the funny comments from u guys, I realized why they post such silly news. IT’S THE FIRST TIME ALL U GUYS AGREE ABOUT SOMETHING. Thnx LLN.

By: KarLoveBoy88

KarLoveBoy88 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:40:21 +0000

Interesting enough that I almost cared about this….

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:29:29 +0000

Still beats Chevy’s logo, which is based on a wallpaper pattern…

By: Borat

Borat — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:16:14 +0000

@howsmydriving, kudos for funny.

@BU, that when Bungle era started. I am with you on that. 1996-2001 7 series is gorgeous.

By: BuyUSA

BuyUSA — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:47:05 +0000

I stopped admiring BMW when they restyled the 7 series in 2002.

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:55:36 +0000

Wow, next thing you know, Daimler will tell us that the Mercedes Benz logo is not based on the Peace symbol.

By: Mark Kleis

Mark Kleis — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0000

@jayjc08 – I thought Drew did a decent job of pointing out that although the news about BMW’s logo wasn’t new knowledge to the world, it was new to the NY Times and a good portion of the population – I for one never even considered the history of the logo. Blasphemy, I know.

As for the Volt story, most of what was discussed was old news (as it pointed out), but this was the first time anyone from GM had officially commented about a price point other than the $40,000 price – so we felt that aspect of the story was worth mentioning.

Glad you liked the other stuff, though.

By: l.sanchez

l.sanchez — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:20:18 +0000

Another BMW recall.

By: AutoCritical

AutoCritical — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:55:02 +0000

can someone hold me?

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:43:52 +0000

Can Deuce McCallister use this in his countersuit against Nissan?

By: Borat

Borat — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:39:21 +0000

You know guys, for us living in NJ it is not a big deal: we survived gay American governor who learned that he is living a lie, while being a governor, twice married father of two children from 2 wives and shtooping same time either male aid or Israeli sailor. Propeller next to it is not a high sea drama.

By: NRG

NRG — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:18:46 +0000

OMG. I almost had a heart attack. That was blasphemy. Interesting story though.

By: Lawnchair88

Lawnchair88 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:13:43 +0000

LOL @ Leftwing.

By: oldraven

oldraven — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:53:28 +0000

This was a question in a cheesy board game my sister in law pulled out at our Christmas party. It was called ‘Battle of the Sexes’, and the men would ask the women guy questions, where the women asked us gal questions. I got the one asking what the Mitsubishi, Saab, and BMW emblems are supposed to symbolise. I gave them a bonus hint of “This also includes Spyker.”, which I knew wouldn’t do them any good. They got it wrong, but maybe now they didn’t.

By: leftwingagenda

leftwingagenda — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:50:00 +0000

so who do i sue over this?

By: idrinorbarsaku

idrinorbarsaku — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:47:35 +0000

It’s still funny how I know where their logo came from, even though I don’t own a BMW, and I tell someone that their propeller image is false, they tell me I know sh!t, and think that they are right because they own a bmw and I don’t…. Stupid idiots…though, I’m not surprised, I rarely see someone who is actually smart and drives a bmw at the same time

By: 85ZingoGTR

85ZingoGTR — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:47:06 +0000

What?? After all these years??

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:46:30 +0000

Now THAT’s funny!

By: Sgt Pepper

Sgt Pepper — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:44:30 +0000

Before I get attacked. Just kidding I like the six series

By: Sgt Pepper

Sgt Pepper — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:43:42 +0000

Nazi sled. Who cares about BMW.

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:42:42 +0000

This article and the last Chevrolet Volt article are just a little bit of reused and recycled media. This is something that most car enthusiasts know, and if you don’t but are interested in BMW then you’ll probably learn. And this whole time they’ve been calling for a sub-40k price tag for the Volt, and if you didn’t acknowledge that the estimates that they were giving out did not include the gov. rebate then you didn’t read much of the article.

However, good job on the other recently posted articles, great to see Chrysler with some life in them…

By: DenverGuy217

DenverGuy217 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:41:20 +0000

Thank goodness BMW cleared that up. Now I can sleep peacefully

By: 71fiveanddime

71fiveanddime — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:35:14 +0000

my world is in chaos……….