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BMW321

1938 – present Germany passenger car 1 production year
Production1938 – present
Recorded originGermany
Classpassenger car
Background

The BMW 321 is a compact six-cylinder automobile produced by the Bavarian firm between 1938 and 1941. After 1945, production of the 321 resumed at the Eisenach plant and continued until 1950.

Text adapted from “BMW 321” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07

Chronology ledger

Dates with their meaning intact

Production chronology1938–open

Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.

rdw ↗1 year
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations1938–1948

First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.

Netherlands RDW ↗11 years