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

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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— Agent001 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 12:47:35 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

its a pretty good rendering though

— ericisamazing335 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 1:32:06 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

wtffffff is that
lf-a please

— eric452 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 1:33:33 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

I actually think that's a pretty hot creation.

— Threepoint1415926 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 1:51:18 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

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?

— 007vehispy1 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 1:54:55 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

background comes from a Ford GT photo

— chewy (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 1:58:07 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

That looks great!
Awesome render.

— adamsaf723 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 2:38:26 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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.

— Matthew1 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 3:17:51 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

wow... i really hope they take a look at this rendering and abandon that hideous m1 concept we saw a week or so ago.

— CLK63BlackSeries (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 3:44:48 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

That looks like a mix of M6 and M3.

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— JUGNU (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 5:26:35 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

The headlights came off an EVO. But it looks quite nice.

— M53R (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 7:18:54 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

it looks like the M3 attempted to take some steroids and went very wrong

— KZ258 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 9:48:14 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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.

— Whelan (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 9:58:10 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

a mid engined bmw would bring peace to the middle east and cure aids.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 10:05:36 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Love it

— snatchandgrab (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 10:49:16 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME

— drakarula (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 11:40:18 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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.

— cdoke (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 11:45:31 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

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?

— 007vehispy1 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 11:52:35 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

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!

— GermanNut (View Profile)

Posted on 5/5/2008 11:59:42 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1