BMW also NEVER took directives from the Third Reich or Nazi parties, never used any products of camp labor…

Okay, it may not be a prop, but in this case, I wouldn’t take wiki or the corporate spokesman as being solid evidence. The collective guilt of the German people should not be overestimated, and I fully understand the sentiment if not the effects.

The reason they don’t make aircraft engines supposedly goes back to a postwar promise. I think they ought to get over it. Thielert is making good bucks rebuilding mercedes diesels for light aircraft, but I would rather have a BMW in my plane.

Beginning with aircraft engines, BMW AG produced a variety of products in its early years, eventually shifting to motorcycle production in 1923 and automobiles in 1929. The circular blue and white BMW logo, which has not been altered throughout the company’s history, does not in fact symbolize a spinning propeller according to a BMW spokesman Joerg Huebner (although the imagery did appear in post-WWI advertisements)

While we are strolling down BMW history lane, how about they put out a new piston aircarft engine to remind everyone why they have a prop as a company symbol.

On topic, that idea would be fantastic to see and something I would actually be interested in. Bloated, played out SUV’s and trucks hold no interest for me.