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Attention Getter: Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Psychological Orientation: It’s easy enough to say that by this time in your lives, most of you have probably become licensed to drive. Another majority of you have become car owners, and the rest of you will most likely follow within the years to come. After having worked for BMW for an extensive amount of time, it’s become evident to me on how people put trust in a well known brand, or should I say roundel. Not only this, but people trust in a company that has a long and successful history. This being said, BMW’s heritage and branding plays a significant role in their success; they have one of the world 's most recognized and revered …show more content…

The inner featured quadrants in the Bavarian Free State colors of blue and white, but in the opposed order, because according BMW Motorrad UK, it was illegal to use national symbols in a commercial trademark.

Conclusion
Logical Closure: In conclusion, today I’ve shared with you a little about the BMW heritage and how the BMW brand symbol came to be.
Psychological Closure: Now that you know a little more about this corporate logo and it’s representation of what they say to be the “Ultimate Driving Machine”, when you look behind or in front of you while in your commute, you’ll now know that the BMW brand and roundel came a long way to getting applied to that vehicle. Almost 90 years to be exact.
Clincher: I know many of you may not enjoying marketing and branding as much as I do, but I find it truly impressive that one marketing notion can go on for almost 90 years, unchanged and uncorrected. So next time you’re in a rip roaring game of trivial pursuit, because I know that’s what all of you do in your spare time, you can eloquently tell, or even correct your competition on what the BMW roundel was based off of, not airplanes, but the free state of Bavaria and the companies that founded BMW.

BMW Motorrad UK, (2007, Oct. 19). Retrieved Mar. 11, 2011, from http://www.worldofbmw.com
Kiley, D. (2004). Driven: inside BMW, the most admired car company in the world. (Vol. 1,). Wiley.

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