The Dixi continued briefly as the BMW Dixi but the renamed BMW-Factory Eisenach soon started making an updated version of the car called the BMW 3/15PS dropping the Dixi name.
Eisenach | Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Automobilwerk Eisenach | Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach | Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1911-1988) | Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | A "leaning" 1920's Automobilwerk Eisenach |
Despite the nomenclature, it was clear that BMW’s Eisenach plant was no longer under the control of BMW: later BMW 340s, still based on the prewar 326, were badged as EMW 340s following a protracted dispute concerning title to the BMW name.
The BMW 340, subsequently rebadged as the EMW 340, was a large six-cylinder four-door passenger saloon produced at Eisenach initially in the name of BMW.
Several manufacturers were therefore charged with production, each supposedly following the same standardized plans: BMW (Werk Eisenach), Hanomag, Stoewer, Opel (Werk Brandenburg), Ford Germany and Auto Union (Horch and Wanderer).
In 1921 the company purchased Automobilwerk Eisenach, thereby entering automobile production and, with the Dixi 3/15 DA-1 playing an important part in expanding the German auto-market to buyers who hitherto would have been motorized, if at all, only as motor-cylilsts.