BMW operates an official museum as a part of its headquarters in Munich, Germany. Nevertheless, for armchair vacationers, the automaker has launched an internet museum of kinds, providing detailed info 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, presently lists 424 automobiles—and a good increased 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 shortly discover particular fashions. Every entry contains pictures and specs, and in some circumstances, hyperlinks to further publications akin to brochures, workshop literature, and specialist books.
For instance, choosing the 3-Sequence mannequin sequence narrows the a long time to the 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 type 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 basic automotive fans alike might simply lose hours exploring the catalog and discovering automobiles they by no means knew existed.
A lot of the info comes from BMW’s archives, and the automaker mentioned it plans to proceed updating the catalog with future car generations.
