"E Varden" wrote
> > Because its stupid. It's Bee Em Doubleyou fer crissakes. Beemer > > for short.
> >
> > Bimmer is a raggedy-ass lame bit of moronicity that somehow has been
> > picked up by lackwits with no ear for euphony.
>
> Actually, there's been the quarterly rant about "bimmer" vs. "beamer"
> on alt.autos.bmw going on. Many (in the US) insist that bimmer is
> a car and beamer is a bike. YMMV.
While others in the US insist that a beemer (same pronunciation as beamer) is a car, and few (except a few other even snobbier folks) have ever heard of the bike.