Bimmer/Beamer

Regional? Age? Car/ bike?

I'm 58, Canadian and car based, and Bimmer is mine.

Discuss.

I always believed it was Bimmer for cars, Beamer for motorcycles.  I'm 54 and grew up on the whitebread US East Coast.

[edit]  Or "Beemer" as an alternative spelling for bikes.

Let's let an expert answer this...  Que Beanie man.

https://youtu.be/dsQHNmaNxDg

I've lived in CA, PA, IN, TX, FL, MT, Ontario, and Germany.  The only place that didn't call them Bimmer was Germany.  The only guy I knew over there that abbreviated it called them BMs (pronounced Beh-em)

Bimmer FTW.

Almost the same as Duke save for spelling. I thought it was Bimmer for cars, Beemer for bikes. 47, US West Coast.

I've heard both used interchangeably, its the guys in the CCA are the ones that seem to care about trivial things like this. 

37, Oklahoma, currently own my 4th BMW. 

Bikes have one beam, cars are bimmers, because Beamer is just to nasally of a word and not at all sophisticated.  Plus why would you want people who are not in the know to know what you are talking about.

Don’t get me started on DSM, JDM, or the four hundred abbreviations I am supposed to know at work.

From a say what, many years ago: 

Bimmer - BMW Car

Beemer - BMW Bike

Bummer - Not having either one

I don’t know about anyone else but I call a BMW a BMW if it is indeed a BMW.

Not a big nickname person myself.

In reply to ebonyandivory :

you should be calling it a bavarian motor works then..

In reply to ebonyandivory :

Yeah; despite having tucked the Bimmer/Beemer "definitions" away with all the fervor of the pedant that I am, I just call them BMWs.

Fueled by Caffeine said:

In reply to ebonyandivory :

you should be calling it a bavarian motor works then..

Just whatever you do, don’t call it a BM. 

Fueled by Caffeine said:

In reply to ebonyandivory :

you should be calling it a bavarian motor works then..

And I’m sure you’ll agree to call a Mustang a Ford Motor Company Mustang?

My other option is Bmtroubleyou...

Duke said:

Fueled by Caffeine said:

In reply to ebonyandivory :

you should be calling it a bavarian motor works then..

Just whatever you do, don’t call it a BM. 

Well they did give us the E36 M3.

In reply to ebonyandivory :

you said you didn't like nick names.... 

Bimmer for cars, Beemer for bikes. I like the bummer for if you don't have one. I'm always amazed at how many people are surprised when I tell them my bike is a BMW. 

Fueled by Caffeine said:

In reply to ebonyandivory :

you should be calling it a bavarian motor works then..

Bayerische Motoren Werke of course

28M from North Carolina and I've always said and heard Beemer but I just call mine Porcupine.

BMW. 32M, US, East Coast

My guess is the confusion arose because Bimmer is pronounced "beama" in German. 

Bummer, I'm stuck with my FMC S197.   

Ridden most of my life and always used model designations like R65 or K100. I doubt if motorrad owners ever use the term bimmer or beamer. Might be in my eighth decade.

I call mine an ill-tempered, code-throwing, eurotrash piece of E36 M3 on occasion.  Usually it's great and it's just 'daddy's car.'

I always thought it was "Porcupine Car."

Anything but calling them a BMW seems inappropriate - what, are we saving one sound/letter?  Why?