About one week ago, the German engineers were seen on Nurburgring testing an unexpected prototype, a pickup version of the current BMW M3 generation. Today, they decided to release the official details on the pickup model, the Germans yet trying to tell us that everything is somehow serious, but we know it is not.

However, there is a BMW M3 pickup, the prototype in the photos of course, a model that packs the 4.0-liter V8 engine developing 414 horsepower and 400 Nm of torque.

Mainly, the pickup version retains all the major elements from the standard version but of course, it gets what it needs for a pickup model, the rear platform.

Moreover, BMW stated that the rear platform has a load capacity of 450 kilograms but however running at a top speed of 300 km/h, as the M3 pickup reaches the same top speed, it is hard to think that you can carry safely something in the rear. Check the photo gallery released by BMW and drop a comment if you would buy this kind of vehicle if it will somehow enter production.

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Recently, the engineers from BMW were spotted on Nurburgring while testing a model that most probably shocked few people around. We talk about a pickup version of the current M3 generation. In the beginning, they managed to leave us speechless as the combination of a sports car with the purposes of a pickup model were not blending very well together.

Today, BMW announced through a press release that the pickup model was just a joke prepared for April Fool’s day. However, at that moment, everything seemed to be serious as the prototype got its layer of camouflage and other features for a prototype being under serious tests.

The head of product communications within BMW, Dirk Arnold, told us that this is not a model that follows to be introduced in the series production and all of this was a joke. However, he added that this prototype is available if someone would offer to enter a competition dedicated to the pickup models.

Without doubt, it would be a very strong rival considering the performance of the M model, the Germans claiming in the end that they will never develop such a model in this segment.

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