• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’

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      1 month ago

      Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

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        1 month ago

        German for Bavarian Motor Works

        God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!