BMW Dixi

Dixi was a car marque used by the Eisenach-based manufacturer Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach, later Automobilwerk Eisenach, and after BMW acquired the Eisenach plant in 1928 it was applied to the company's licensed small car derived from the Austin Seven. The Austin-based Dixi 3/15 PS was built under licence, and from July 1929 it was sold as the BMW 3/15 PS (DA 2), after which the Dixi name was phased out of BMW badging. The first hundred cars were supplied by Austin as kits, and by December 1927 the first officially Dixi-built DA-1 3/15 PS were leaving the line; DA stood for Deutsche Ausfuhrung, the German version, and 3/15 gave the tax and actual horsepower. Apart from left-hand drive and metric fasteners the car was nearly identical to the Austin, and most left the factory as tourers.