BMW operates an official museum as a part of its headquarters in Munich, Germany. Nonetheless, for armchair vacationers, the automaker has launched an internet museum of types, providing detailed data and pictures of fashions courting again to 1928, when BMW started constructing its first vehicles.
The net museum, which BMW refers to as a product catalog, at the moment lists 424 autos—and an excellent larger quantity when together with fashions from Mini and BMW Motorrad, each of which have had their very own product catalogs since 2021.
Automobiles are organized by mannequin collection, decade, and physique sort, with a search bar permitting customers to shortly discover particular fashions. Every entry contains pictures and specs, and in some instances, hyperlinks to extra publications resembling brochures, workshop literature, and specialist books.
For instance, deciding on the 3-Sequence mannequin collection narrows the many years 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 deciding on the Coupe physique model 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 automobile 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 stated it plans to proceed updating the catalog with future automobile generations.