Inline-6 Helped Forge BMW Brand - Since 1933, BMW I-6 engines have set premium-engine standard

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BMW AG UNASSUMINGLY CELEBRATED ITS 90TH anniversary last summer, and a look at its history shows an auto company irrefutably linked to engines like no auto maker before or since. Woven throughout BMW's history is its signature inline 6-cyl. engine - a layout to which the company owes its very origin. Starting as an aircraft engine from BMW's beginning in 1917 through today, the I-6 - a Ward's 10 Best Engines winner for 12 of the competition's 13 years - is so much a part of the brand's tradition that the letters BMW almost cannot be said without mentioning the magnificent I-6 in the same breath.