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BMW M's Secret Underground Garage!!

  • 05-04-2011 4:25pm
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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Nice! Looks like they were planning on doing that M3 pickup April Fool's joke during e30 times :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Nice pics, though its not much of a secret now :).

    I think most of those cars have appeared at some show or another over the years, and are sometimes on show in the BMW museum in Munich. Some such as the M8 and E60 M5 have been test driven by car magazines and the X5 variation was considered but they eventually settled for the X5 4.6is.

    The two cars they should have built in my opinion out of all of them were the E34 convertible (with any engine option) and the M8.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,158 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    Wonder why they never put the M3 Touring into production considering you can/could get an M5 touring. Surely it would have made some sense as a proper S4/RS4 Avant rival?


  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Number Nine


    Top Dog wrote: »
    Wonder why they never put the M3 Touring into production considering you can/could get an M5 touring. Surely it would have made some sense as a proper S4/RS4 Avant rival?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,158 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    That high-top 5-series looks hideous! :eek::eek::eek:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Irish Fire


    Top Dog wrote: »
    That high-top 5-series looks hideous! :eek::eek::eek:


    Looks like it hit a Legacy........


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    reminds me of a hearse


  • Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭JohnnyMustang22


    first time I've seen these pics......

    Has anyone any more info on them? Private collection or BMW stash?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


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    Looks like a wheelchair or a couple of bicycles in the back of that. Could have been a one off for a BMW sponsored team.
    first time I've seen these pics......

    Has anyone any more info on them? Private collection or BMW stash?

    The collection belongs to BMW and is in their M development buildings in Munich. Its out near the new Bayern Munich stadium. You can't normally get in but the cars are sometimes on view in their museum and sometimes in the showroom of the BMW sales HQ. This is the place where you go when you decide to pick the car up yourself instead of at a dealers.

    BMW also have another storage facility in Munich for other cars that are not (or never will be) on display such as ex-F1 ex-DTM etc cars, concepts, experimentals, one offs and so on. Again access is impossible.

    I'm not sure why they never built some of those models, the only M5 estate they ever built was the E34 and then they only built less than 900 of them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭JohnnyMustang22


    bijapos wrote: »
    Looks like a wheelchair or a couple of bicycles in the back of that. Could have been a one off for a BMW sponsored team.



    The collection belongs to BMW and is in their M development buildings in Munich. Its out near the new Bayern Munich stadium. You can't normally get in but the cars are sometimes on view in their museum and sometimes in the showroom of the BMW sales HQ. This is the place where you go when you decide to pick the car up yourself instead of at a dealers.

    BMW also have another storage facility in Munich for other cars that are not (or never will be) on display such as ex-F1 ex-DTM etc cars, concepts, experimentals, one offs and so on. Again access is impossible.

    I'm not sure why they never built some of those models, the only M5 estate they ever built was the E34 and then they only built less than 900 of them.

    Thanks for the info. Very interesteing.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Just saw that apparently they used that e30 M3 pickup as a way of bringing around parts. lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Number Nine


    first time I've seen these pics......

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  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Number Nine


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    Although my pics are very slow to appear, they should also be an M7 from the early 1990s and not sure if there was an M8 series convertible.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,451 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    M3 Touring looks fantastic imo. i'd have that before the coupe!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Note that the M8 has no pop up lights. The car could supposedly hit 325 km/h and they reckoned the car travelling at that speed with the lights up would eventually damage the pop up motors.

    The E30 M3 pick up was built by BMW apprentices and does not have the full running gear of the M3, it has neither the flared arches for the wider track nor does it have 5 stud wheels. As it has no homolgomation number for German roads it can only be driven on private land such as the factory grounds.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Cmar-Ireland




    Nice video of the V12 BMW X5. Sounds fantastic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭ants09


    also seen pictures of a E30 M3 rhd one red one black omg i would love to have one of those as only two were built


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,740 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    This would sell by the ship-load, even now:

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    Ode To The Motorist

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭MercMad


    I see it is a 1984 Dublin reg :D

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    MercMad wrote: »
    I see it is a 1984 Dublin reg :D

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    @ OP how did you get to see these cars? You've made my day posting these pics!

    That E34 Convert is just gorgeous


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 282 ✭✭Caddyman


    I remember an M1 leaving one of my classmates to school in Dundalk back in 78/79
    Can anyone guess who the owner was?


  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Number Nine


    Caddyman wrote: »
    I remember an M1 leaving one of my classmates to school in Dundalk back in 78/79
    Can anyone guess who the owner was?

    Phil Monaghan !


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 282 ✭✭Caddyman


    Phil Monaghan !

    Give the man a Cigarrr!


  • Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭JohnnyMustang22


    Phil Monaghan !

    they still have that car i beleive.....

    One of the Monaghan's called up to me in it a few months ago...prob the same car...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 282 ✭✭Caddyman


    they still have that car i beleive.....

    One of the Monaghan's called up to me in it a few months ago...prob the same car...

    If its white then Bingo!
    Can't remember if it was put on Louth plates but I do remember the German plates it had on!


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