"<p>Having found itself on the wrong side of the war, the Werke took a while to rebuild. And in 1951, when the swoopy, sophisticated 501 rolled out, BMW announced to the world that it was back in grand style. The general public called it the ""<em>Barockengel,</em>"" or the Ba-roque Angel, a thoroughly dramatic nickname as only the Germans can do. The 501 became the first German car to be built with a V8, and later the first car in the world with an aluminum V8: capable of 140 horsepower and over 100 miles per hour, it was a postwar return in the finest of forms.</p>"
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