BMW are very good at innovations using old/unfashionable tech and are happy to sometimes be a bit eccentric/different from everyone else. I have a BMW motorcycl

BMW are very good at innovations using old/unfashionable tech and are happy to sometimes be a bit eccentric/different from everyone else. I have a BMW motorcycle with a "Boxer"[1] engine which is the product of a process of continuous refinement of an original 1923 design. It's an amazing engine design that is almost completely unknown outside of BMW. On the other hand, my old BMW motorcycles had a design for the indicator controls that everyone in the industry found really weird and ended up being abandoned[2] [1] Horizontally opposed twin cylinder https://www.carolenash.com/news/bike-news/detail/a-brief-history-of-bmws-boxer-engine https://www.carolenash.com/news/bike-news/detail/a-brief-his... [2] I actually liked the old design but w/e