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the 700 revolution ( bmw story )

 
As we have stated that the company is suffering losses in bulk sector of large vehicles, which were due to poor economic conditions planned by BMW for a merger with-Daimler-Benz-but the President of the Board of Legislators,-Kurt Golda-persuaded the majority owner in the company's shares-Herbert Quandt-that Almtsqubl will be BMW's and soon became a success which led him to increase its share of equity rather than merger with Daimler.
In 1959 appeared a new model of the company brought it back to life again in the medium category, which was almost entirely from the dead.
 
This model is the BMW 700, which began a new era for the company in the world of cars and put the car in the list of the most important models in the company's history.
It began with-Wolfgang Denzel-one suppliers of BMW in Venice, a friend-Dr. Richter-Brohm-Chairman of the Board of Directors, which began the tale of his own design a sports car and was honored these small rearguard experience in the field of car manufacturing himself.
 
He built his new car, depending on the structure and drive a BMW 600 with dependence on Seats of the Isetta, but the car did not succeed commercially because it is unconventional and remarkable considering
 
He was forced then-Wolfgang Denzel-to push the car to the Italian designer-Giovanni Michelotti-designed for a car good enough to have received-Wolfgang Denzel-new car in mid-January of 1958 and began to develop for presentation to the new company
Finally finished-Wolfgang Denzel-empirical Modelh of the car and subject to the company that much welcomed this model, which holds the dye in the area of the famous Italian sports car but it was the biggest problem in the car and the economic adaptation to the surrounding economic conditions.
 
The-Wilhelm Hofmeister-and design department resurrected in the restructuring of the car to get the required specifications of the vehicle as that-Helmut-Werner Bönsch-director of the company's new section often encouraged to ask the Model sedan from the car
 
In November 1958 able-Wilhelm Hofmeister-submission of the Cuban version under Project Code 107 and that made the decision to the Board of Directors Itkhadd production on this picture as final.
On the other side was-von Falkenhausen-ended development of the engine of the 600 old to the new engine has 30 hp and 700 CC capacity and gives the performance of the car is fun and interesting as well.

In mid-February 1959, the company has completed its official trials of the car on the road and began to prepare to launch new commercial Mawil but raised in the first Aldrop the thirty-ninth of-IAA-to be watched by the public for the first time.
 
It was not the company's new car is a BMW exclusive network where we did not find the famous BMW in front of the car where the car was carrying the engine in the back, not forward, as was overwhelming to the Italian car charm in dazzling exterior design.
BMW has been able to reach the hearts of audiences with this version advanced by the advantage of good brakes and suspension and also convenient means of safety provided by the car and the car has become the top in its class for the first time the BMW to the feet of the car market is also stable and stron
 
Due to the start of the improvement in economic conditions after about 15 years after the end of World War II bear markets started a sports car, which support the success of the new car, which has greatly benefited from the absence of competitors and natural meanings at the time.
In 1960 the company produced 10.000 car and started to put models of the carrier half automatic or the Saxomat and the company continued to develop arose subtracting the model more powerful BMW 700 C Sport, which appeared in 1961 an engine more powerful than its predecessors were up to 100 km in just 20 seconds with top speed of 135 km per hour.

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