BMW builds the final word on-line museum for followers of its model

BMW operates an official museum as a part of its headquarters in Munich, Germany. Nevertheless, for armchair vacationers, the automaker has launched a web based museum of types, providing detailed data and pictures of fashions relationship again to 1928, when BMW started constructing its first automobiles.

The net museum, which BMW refers to as a product catalog, at present lists 424 autos—and a fair larger 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 consists of 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 many years 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 technology, and choosing the Coupe physique type additional refines the listing to 12 distinct fashions, together with uncommon variants just like the M3 CSL and M3 GTR.

BMW on-line catalog

BMW and traditional automobile lovers alike may simply lose hours exploring the catalog and discovering autos they by no means knew existed.

Many of the data comes from BMW’s archives, and the automaker stated it plans to proceed updating the catalog with future car generations.