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Originally Posted by E93FTW
Yeah most people think is just the colors of the Bavarian flag.
Bayerische Motoren Werke über alles!
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Most people are right, then.
How about a video explanation uploaded by BMW themselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znBnNJ1Fv08
"The design was not in any way connected with aircraft engines or propellers. The idea that the blue and white had anything to do with spinning propellers comes from a 1929 advertisement, which featured aircraft with the image of the Roundel in the rotating propellers. This advertisement came at the beginning of the Great Depression, which coincided with BMW acquiring the license to build Pratt & Whitney radial aircraft engines. The advertising department used the Roundel and BMW heritage in an attempt to increase sales of the new radial motors."
http://bmwmcmag.com/2013/01/origins-...ropeller-myth/