New ammunition to rag on BMW owners. Funny? Kinda, or maybe not.
08-11-2002, 01:38 PM
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New ammunition to rag on BMW owners. Funny? Kinda, or maybe not.
This is hilarious (at least to me) and has been a great tool to rag on BMW owners, which is always fun.
BMW is in trouble because it's websites have been posting interactive maps to help people locate the dealer nearest to them for sales and service. Well that in itself isn't the problem, it's just that BMW conveniently omitted Israel from it's maps of the Middle East and conveniently replaced the country with someplace called "Palestine", which of course doesn't exist (yet) as a nation.
An article (below) shows their retraction:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1028814646210
BMW to correct Web site omitting Israel
By MICHAEL FREUND
In response to a flurry of protests, BMW has agreed to correct its Middle East division's Web site, which showed "Palestine" in place of Israel, a company spokesman told The Jerusalem Post.
Rob Mitchell, the BMW Group's North American director of corporate communications, said on Friday the company had received "quite a number" of calls from people objecting to the omission of Israel from a map on the Internet indicating the location of BMW dealers in the Middle East.
"The minute we got the calls, we contacted our colleagues over there," said Mitchell, referring to the company's Middle East division. "They removed the link and are working to correct the site."
BMW also issued a press release stating, "BMW Group regrets having published this map on one of its Internet sites. Obviously there have been faults in designing and programming this site. We are working on correcting these faults as soon as possible.
"As a car manufacturer, we are not involved in Middle East politics, do not support any of the given political attitudes, and did not aim to make any kind of political statement."
This is not the first time that BMW has been the object of criticism from Israel and world Jewry.
In August 1998, a class-action suit was filed against the company in New York regarding its use of Jewish slave-labor during the Holocaust. BMW later agreed to take part in a German compensation fund in exchange for protection from lawsuits in the US.
BMW is in trouble because it's websites have been posting interactive maps to help people locate the dealer nearest to them for sales and service. Well that in itself isn't the problem, it's just that BMW conveniently omitted Israel from it's maps of the Middle East and conveniently replaced the country with someplace called "Palestine", which of course doesn't exist (yet) as a nation.
An article (below) shows their retraction:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1028814646210
BMW to correct Web site omitting Israel
By MICHAEL FREUND
In response to a flurry of protests, BMW has agreed to correct its Middle East division's Web site, which showed "Palestine" in place of Israel, a company spokesman told The Jerusalem Post.
Rob Mitchell, the BMW Group's North American director of corporate communications, said on Friday the company had received "quite a number" of calls from people objecting to the omission of Israel from a map on the Internet indicating the location of BMW dealers in the Middle East.
"The minute we got the calls, we contacted our colleagues over there," said Mitchell, referring to the company's Middle East division. "They removed the link and are working to correct the site."
BMW also issued a press release stating, "BMW Group regrets having published this map on one of its Internet sites. Obviously there have been faults in designing and programming this site. We are working on correcting these faults as soon as possible.
"As a car manufacturer, we are not involved in Middle East politics, do not support any of the given political attitudes, and did not aim to make any kind of political statement."
This is not the first time that BMW has been the object of criticism from Israel and world Jewry.
In August 1998, a class-action suit was filed against the company in New York regarding its use of Jewish slave-labor during the Holocaust. BMW later agreed to take part in a German compensation fund in exchange for protection from lawsuits in the US.
08-11-2002, 04:11 PM
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BMW was banned from making planes ever again by Allied Powers after Germany surrendered in WWII...
BMW then focused its engineering skills into making great cars. The BMW logo is actually a representation of a propeller.
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08-11-2002, 06:49 PM
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Are you happy with finish, quality, etc.?
DennisA4 just purchased another hot AT Italia wheel (Lunas).
Are you happy with finish, quality, etc.?
