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DAIR · 16 Mar 2011 at 12:36

What do you think the Fantastic Mr Fox will make of this?

Sin_Chase · 16 Mar 2011 at 12:40

...what....is...that.

Vita · 16 Mar 2011 at 12:42

M3 Pick-up.

DAIR · 16 Mar 2011 at 12:43

http://www.worldcarfans.com/111031531086/bmw-m3-pickup-spied-for-first-time

Is this something a BMW engineer is building as a favor to his hillbilly cousin?

Or maybe BMW is working up to a nice big prank the rather haughty Bavarian brand will play on us this coming April 1st?

We don't know.

All we do know is that our spy photographers have just shot a BMW M3 Pickup. Yes, an M3 done El Camino-style, doing some testing at the Nürburgring circuit.

They checked and the car is indeed registered to BMW and wears the standard black and white camouflage that the automaker likes to use.

The body is an M3 reduced to two doors with the rear half of the car converted into a real pickup bed. Maybe BMW needs it to run parts really, really quickly from one facility to another. Well, that's what the link loving blokes at Jalopnik have been told.

Incidentally, today was the first day of the 2011 testing season at the Nürburgring and you'd think BMW had more important issues to attend to.

Read more: http://www.worldcarfans.com/111031531086/bmw-m3-pickup-spied-for-first-time#ixzz1GlZqpD1n

Morba · 16 Mar 2011 at 12:45

looks great, only for fun though surely

GravyMonster · 16 Mar 2011 at 13:57

Took me a while to realise what was going on there. I was like, why does that pickup have M3 wheels?

IMO it's awful. Almost as bad as the classic Impreza STi someone turned into a pickup.

4T5 · 16 Mar 2011 at 13:59

The Yanks would go mental for that, Personally I think the rear is hideous but that hasn't stopped me in the past.

LSPIII · 16 Mar 2011 at 14:00

I can see the Aussie market going for it. If they were to sell even one here I'd be surprised.

End Creditz · 16 Mar 2011 at 14:01

4T5 said:
The Yanks would go mental for that, Personally I think the rear is hideous but that hasn't stopped me in the past.

Makes your Skoda pickup look positively gorgeous

tigerstyle · 16 Mar 2011 at 14:22

I thought it was a convertible, obviously without the roof but some testing rig?

DAIR · 16 Mar 2011 at 14:36

I think Manuel from Mexico would go crazy for this!

Dup · 16 Mar 2011 at 14:40

It's a one off for a BMW motorbike tuning/accessory company.

I love it, my old tech teacher at school had an E36 with a similar conversion.

naefeart · 16 Mar 2011 at 14:41

A whole new lineup for BMWs range.

BMW Marketing Slogan: 'Unlock your inner Aussie!'

SoliD · 16 Mar 2011 at 19:37

This is better! http://www.nextconceptcars.com/custom-cars/bwm-m5-pickup/

Sin_Chase · 16 Mar 2011 at 19:38

naefeart said:
A whole new lineup for BMWs range.

BMW Marketing Slogan: 'Unlock your inner Aussie, meight! Too easy.'

Fixed

DAIR · 17 Mar 2011 at 09:17

SoliD said:
This is better! http://www.nextconceptcars.com/custom-cars/bwm-m5-pickup/

Like the look of that!

griffo_001 · 17 Mar 2011 at 13:13

Sorry to wee on your bonfire:

UPDATE: And...product planner-to-the-car-stars Jim Hall tells us it's a one-off parts hauler for ZTechnik or another BMW motorcycle accessory builder that's used just around the compound. As for camouflage, Hall said: ""Camouflage means nothing. BMW puts camouflage on anything and everything. Look at that BMW Vision Connected concept. That has camouflage and they're obviously not building that."

Source

It was worth building just to watch the internet explode

Cosimo · 17 Mar 2011 at 13:22

Hell yes, perfect for them good old boys down south.

Dogbreath · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:39

4T5 said:
The Yanks would go mental for that, Personally I think the rear is hideous but that hasn't stopped me in the past.

Hasn't stopped BMW either

phi1 · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:49

I want one!!!