UPDATE: BMW Pickup Indeed an April Fool's Joke

Remonster · 03-17-2011, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by GotM1491

no weight over the rear .. a second or so slower

Around the 13 mile Nürburgring? No, it would be much, much slower probably at least 10 seconds or even more than the normal M3. Having so little weight over the rear would make it very hard to put the power down coming out of corners, it would behave even worse than the C63s do in every video where it's pitted against the M3. The C63's willingness to light up its tires (thanks to its MASSIVE torque, which is hugely fun when it does hook up) is the main reason it's slower than the M3 around a track despite its superior power to weight ratio.

Almost forgot to address the topic, there's plenty of precedent for hilarious one-off test mules like this from BMW. They also have made M5 convertibles, that M5 CSL we saw last year and I'm struggling to remember the others I've heard of but I'm sure they offer valuable insight into vehicle dynamics in addition to being great fun for the employees.

jrAdiRon · 03-17-2011, 02:03 PM

Now i can understand why people made up the word "FUGLY"
That thing looks more of a mess than Japan's tsunami's aftermath.

Fraggy · 03-17-2011, 02:36 PM

I think a truck is a great idea, much better than their other recent MPV ideas. Maybe not an M, but call it an P28i or P35i.

Tiz113 · 03-17-2011, 09:36 PM

I WANT ONE!!!!

M2 · 03-17-2011, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Zadjali

Finally a competitor to Holden UTE . . . It could be called BMW X-Pickup . . . LoL

Here's your competitor, delivery van, which won. lol...

I love top gear.

GringoStar · 03-18-2011, 12:33 AM

I got my 135. Are we gonna meet up?

Beemer323 · 03-18-2011, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Dazzler

Err... Fail. The Falcon has a leaf spring non independent rear end on old school chasis rails. The commodore has a multi link independent one as part of it's Monocoque body.

So, one handles and the other doesn't. There is no comparison.

Excellent point! Kiwi 1 : skip 0 Hehehe

greycrx87 · 03-18-2011, 09:04 AM

ugly as fuk

GringoStar · 03-19-2011, 10:59 AM

Most of these are garbage. Love the pics of the 1ers. Everything else is failure

Alex_750whp · 03-20-2011, 08:02 PM

I'll give you 5 bucks and am local

T1T2GRE · 03-23-2011, 07:29 AM

Hahahahaha! That's all kinds of awesome. I would actually consider it, just for the shock value and the fact that I could move my mulch from Lowe's to home in 35 seconds.

135ARG · 03-23-2011, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jrAdiRon

Now i can understand why people made up the word "FUGLY"
That thing looks more of a mess than Japan's tsunami's aftermath.

too soon lol

this might actually get texans to buy more bmw

Sedan_Clan · 03-23-2011, 05:55 PM

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vtm3 · 03-25-2011, 10:02 PM

Are there any vendors that have truck nutz in carbon fiber to keep the weight down???

Dengel · 03-26-2011, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Toker335i

+1

Haha, all it needs is a Lift, some mud tires, and a magnaflow exhaust

I take offense to that. I ran magnaflows on my e92 and it sounded kickass

comar1979 · 08-29-2013, 03:43 AM

look who's at the Nordschleife right now!!!

I just clicked @ the Webcam on the Bilstein Homepage

M3 Pilot · 08-29-2013, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by comar1979

look who's at the Nordschleife right now!!!

I just clicked @ the Webcam on the Bilstein Homepage

I thought someone might nail you for major thread revival but I must admit, that is a good find !

dozaiya · 08-29-2013, 02:33 PM

LMAO

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