BMW operates an official museum as a part of its headquarters in Munich, Germany. Nonetheless, for armchair vacationers, the automaker has launched a web based museum of types, providing detailed data and pictures of fashions courting again to 1928, when BMW started constructing its first automobiles.
The web museum, which BMW refers to as a product catalog, at present lists 424 autos—and a good greater quantity when together with fashions from Mini and BMW Motorrad, each of which have had their very own product catalogs since 2021.
Autos are organized by mannequin sequence, decade, and physique sort, with a search bar permitting customers to rapidly discover particular fashions. Every entry contains pictures and specs, and in some circumstances, hyperlinks to extra publications akin to brochures, workshop literature, and specialist books.
For instance, choosing the 3-Sequence mannequin sequence narrows the a long time to the Nineteen Seventies, ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, and the physique sorts to Compact, Convertible, Coupe, Sedan, and Touring. Selecting the 2000s brings up the E46 era, and choosing the Coupe physique fashion additional refines the checklist to 12 distinct fashions, together with uncommon variants just like the M3 CSL and M3 GTR.
BMW on-line catalog
BMW and traditional automotive lovers alike might simply lose hours exploring the catalog and discovering autos they by no means knew existed.
A lot of the data comes from BMW’s archives, and the automaker mentioned it plans to proceed updating the catalog with future automobile generations.
