By now it is well known that the Dubai Police force owns a wide variety of rare, expensive or at the very least interesting (see Renault Twizy) vehicles.

The latest to join the ranks is an F10 BMW 5 Series, draped in the already famous white and green paint job.

As most BMW 5 Series owners would agree, the vehicle is a quality build, executed by the German car maker in their traditional premium manner. But still, we have to wonder why the Arabs decided to pick this particular version. It is not ever the M5 variant, and if you compare it to other cars in the pool, like the Aston Martin One-77 or the McLaren 12C, the Bimmer seem a tad out of place.

It doesn’t even have that certain comedy air about it like the Renault Twizy the police force also acquired. It seems that expanding the vehicle lineup has become quite a fad for Dubai, as the Youtube and Twitter accounts seem to suggest. They have begun showing off their latest additions, and the video of the F10 BMW 5 Series is just below.

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The special visitor in question is none other than Katarina Witt, former ice skating figure and two-time Olympic champion at that. Now that you know who the visitor is and what her background is you’ve probably guessed why she’d want to visit BMW Group’s Energy and Environmental Test Center.

In case you’re not sure, it’s because this particular Test Center, can, at the push of a button, take you to any place in the world. Well, at least as far as the weather is concerned.

So BMW Group’s best looking ambassador, at least to my mind, had some fun over there as within a few hours of photo shooting she enjoyed a summer’s heat and a nice breeze from “driving” a Z4 and also had the opportunity to do a bit of skating next to a 1 Series they were testing in Alaskan weather conditions.

Katarina Witt greeted the Manager of Efficient Dynamics at the BMW Group, Dr. Johannes Liebl, during her visit to the BMW Group’s Energy and Environmental Test Center and he also gave a few details on the importance of the facility but mainly there was some fun involved.

Besides the climatic wind tunnel, which can reproduce speeds of up to 250 km/h, temperature (from minus 10°C to plus 45°C), sun, wind and humidity under simulated conditions, there are also four other thermal wind tunnels and test chambers in the ETC facility. This comes in handy as the company’s efficiency grows in terms of cold and hot weather testing, no longer does it take weeks between testing in Dubai and in Norway as that timetable can now be fit into a period of 8 hours all of which are spent in northern Munich.

Just in case you haven’t had enough of Miss Witt, i mean, the BMW Test Center here’s a short “behind the scenes clip”:

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