1916年春,德国两位杰出的机械工程师卡尔·拉普和马克斯·弗里茨将他们管理的两个发动机制造厂合并在一起,在德国巴伐利亚州的首府慕尼黑创办了“宝马”公司(德文缩写“BMW”,正式名称为“巴依尔发动机股份有限公司”)。“宝马”成立之初的主要产品是飞机发动机,因此它圆形的蓝白相间的公司标志是其设计者在看到飞机螺旋浆转动时产生灵感而设计的。第一次世界大战德国战败后,它的飞机工业被严格限制发展,“宝马”被迫改产摩托车。1928年,它在兼并了一家小型的汽车制造厂之后开始研制汽车,一年后,第一台装备有一部11千瓦发动机的“宝 In the spring of 1916, Carl Lapu and Max Fritz, Germany’s two distinguished mechanical engineers, combined their two engine factories under their management and founded the “BMW” company in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, Germany “BMW”, officially known as “Bayer Engine Co., Ltd.”). The main product of the early days of BMW was the aircraft engine, so its circular, blue-and-white company logo was designed by its designers to see the plane’s propeller spin. After the defeat of World War I, Germany’s aircraft industry was severely restricted development, “BMW” was forced to change motorcycles. In 1928, after starting a merger with a small car factory, a year later, the first car equipped with a 11-kilowatt engine, "Po