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April Fools Joke In May? This Site Says They've Caught The BMW M1 In The Flesh!
Do these guys think we're one of those faceless, emotionless, generic, inspected by employee number 15 type of car blog?

A couple people have been emailing me that these guys have caught the BMW M1 in an airplane hangar.

Sorry to break everyone's heart here but all this is, is a pretty good photoshop mashup of the Audi R8, BMW M3, Acura NSX and add whatever else strikes your fancy here at the end.

Even though it's a spoof, we still LOVE the idea of an M1 coming to market.

Audi is re-identifying their entire company by having the wicket hot R8.

So you don't think the boys and girls in Munich are gonna let them ride, do you?

We think it's a pretty good bet you'll see the M1 come to market.

And to all our competitors...they got ya!

Rookies!

While they were getting duped, we were assembling the hottest Bimmerfest photo gallery for your viewing pleasure...

2008 Bimmerfest Photo Gallery

I think the photo below is one of those bloggers...LOLOL!!!!!



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April Fools Joke In May? This Site Says They've Caught The BMW M1 In The Flesh!



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Agent001Agent001 - 5/5/2008 12:47:35 AMView My AgentSpace
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Love how they photoshopped the BMW corona rings into the R8 lenses!!! LOLOL!!!

Bet Bangle and the rest of the BMW design team will be laughing over this one!!!

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Matthew1Matthew1 - 5/5/2008 4:45:23 AM
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001,

You seem to be taking this very personally. If you like the rendering so much, and appreciate that the artist is no amateur, then why are you ripping it to bits with your 'LOLOL's'?

Last time I checked, despite the rendering, the sun will still rise in the morning and BMW will still be around.


ericisamazing335ericisamazing335 - 5/5/2008 1:32:06 AMView My AgentSpace
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its a pretty good rendering though

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Agent001Agent001 - 5/5/2008 1:53:46 AMView My AgentSpace
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It's an excellent pshop that fooled a lot of people.

Except us.

But I Still Love it as I said!

001


eric452eric452 - 5/5/2008 1:33:33 AMView My AgentSpace
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wtffffff is that
lf-a please

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Threepoint1415926Threepoint1415926 - 5/5/2008 1:51:18 AM
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I actually think that's a pretty hot creation.

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007vehispy1007vehispy1 - 5/5/2008 1:54:55 AMView My AgentSpace
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whoever posted this to their website was just looking for attention which they got. the write up on it on the site is a complete joke, first it says it is caught in spain then it goes on to say "we don’t know any more details at this point other then it was created by H0SS Forero" : hence its a photoshop, an interesting one at that. a protype I think not?



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chewychewy - 5/5/2008 1:58:07 AMView My AgentSpace
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background comes from a Ford GT photo

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adamsaf723adamsaf723 - 5/5/2008 2:38:26 AM
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That looks great!
Awesome render.

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Matthew1Matthew1 - 5/5/2008 3:17:51 AM
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Autospies could have approached this story in a few ways, but ditched the 'R8 KILLER' stance for the let's-blow-our-own-trumpet rhetoric.

Well done.

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CLK63BlackSeriesCLK63BlackSeries - 5/5/2008 3:44:48 AM
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wow... i really hope they take a look at this rendering and abandon that hideous m1 concept we saw a week or so ago.

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JUGNUJUGNU - 5/5/2008 5:26:35 AMView My AgentSpace
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That looks like a mix of M6 and M3.

JUGNU

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M53RM53R - 5/5/2008 7:18:54 AMView My AgentSpace
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The headlights came off an EVO. But it looks quite nice.

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KZ258KZ258 - 5/5/2008 9:48:14 AM
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it looks like the M3 attempted to take some steroids and went very wrong

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WhelanWhelan - 5/5/2008 9:58:10 AM
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If BMW made a car that looked like that to compete against the R8 (which was in Iron Man and totally an awesome car), then it would be a looker.

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1995e341995e34 - 5/5/2008 10:05:36 AM
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a mid engined bmw would bring peace to the middle east and cure aids.

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dimitri_010dimitri_010 - 5/5/2008 10:18:08 AM
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most intelligent answer i have ever heard :)


snatchandgrabsnatchandgrab - 5/5/2008 10:49:16 AM
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amazinBimmeramazinBimmer - 5/5/2008 11:05:11 AM
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where do you see the r8? i dont see a fwd derived, low power v8 in this picture? cant see the common parts with Vw either.

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drakaruladrakarula - 5/5/2008 11:40:18 AM
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IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME

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cdokecdoke - 5/5/2008 11:45:31 AMView My AgentSpace
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I cannot believe that Autoblog took this picture seriously. It was even pointed out to them that the wheels are straight from the Mazda Kabura concept. Look for yourself

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/images/large/2612-1.jpg

If you really look at it, it isn't even that good of a photoshop:

The headlights have no depth, it is missing the driver-side headlight, which you should be able to see the very top of. So, the car as it is illustrated isn't symmetrical.

The panel gaps are the same width- so if the car were real, it means that the panel gaps would be getting larger away from the photographer. The little line of light along the front panel gap was taken without respect to the primary lighting of the car in certain places.

There is some strange bright red thing next to the headlight, which is way to vivid to be a reflection in white paint. It has been dulled down in this image the original is highly vivid. In addition, the little red thing at the lower part of the door is shaded wrong.

Last, but not least the rear window is just really screwed up- it is like the person just gave up.

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cdokecdoke - 5/5/2008 1:00:19 PMView My AgentSpace
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...should be "too vivid..."


007vehispy1007vehispy1 - 5/5/2008 11:52:35 AMView My AgentSpace
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http://www.forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=883560

this also appears to be a source of the photoshop- looks like it has some Alpha in the front end as well. It is pretty sad how some online auto sites are even taking this picture serious- are these people blind?

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GermanNutGermanNut - 5/5/2008 11:59:42 AM
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Hahhah what a clear rip-off of Audi's R8. Can you make the headlights any more obvious that they come from Audi's R8.

Don't worry by the time the M1 comes out Audi will be ready to spank it with the R8 V10 Twin Turbo producing 572 horsepower and 0-200 km/hr in 8.4 seconds!

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M53RM53R - 5/6/2008 12:27:19 PMView My AgentSpace
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I dont know what you're smoking, but the headlights on this photoshop dont even look close to those on the R8.


MaindrianPaceMaindrianPace - 5/6/2008 6:58:45 AM
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Kind of strange the way the photochopper thought that a MR car needs a power dome on the bonnet!

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