BMW M3 Pickup: The Photos

BMW's April Fool M3 Pickup is actually the real deal

BMW’s big April Fools was the BMW M3 Pickup. But as it’s a real M3 Pickup and not just a spoof we thought it deserved a photo gallery.

Yesterday we covered the car April Fool japes inflicted on an unsuspecting public by car makers’ PRs. Some were funny, some pointless. But the most elaborate by far was the BMW M3 Pickup.

Sadly for BMW, they managed to fall in to the national stereotype of German humour by admitting that the M3 Pickup was built to pull off an April Fool – a week before April Fools day. Oh, well.

Still, although the Germans may not really ‘get’ humour, they certainly ‘get’ how to put together a convincing spoof car.

Because the BMW M3 Pickup is far from a five-minute cobble-together after-hours by a bunch of bodyshop workers.

Which is what you’d probably have got if the Brits had knocked this up for an April Fool. This is a proper M3 Pickup, make no mistake.

To quote the blurb BMW sent us:

Maximum load capacity has been raised to 450 kilograms. The load bed of the BMW M3 Pickup is clad in high-grade structured aluminium sheeting and provides the biggest cargo capacity ever offered on a BMW M vehicle. In terms of the unit of measurement generally applied to premium automobiles, that gives the loading area of the BMW M3 Pickup the capacity to carry up to 20 standard 46-inch golf bags. What’s more, the BMW M3 Pickup is the first BMW M3 variant in the 25-year-plus history of this model range to come with a trailer tow hitch.

So we though it deserved a proper photo gallery, rather than just a passing nod in a roundup of April Fools stuff.