Let’s say we hop into Mr. Peabody’s WABAC Machine and set the date for October 1936 and Berlin as a location. With us, we bring a photo of the 1998 BMW R 1200 C. We show it to BMW R 5 designer Rudolf Schleicher. The revulsion is immediate, and he runs to the local Kneípe to drown his sorrows. “Was haben sie meiner geliebten Marke angetan?” he wails.
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