The BMW Group is quite busy these days as the Bavarian automaker is developing a raft of new models, ranging from the upcoming Megacity electric-vehicle and the MINI Coupe and Roadster, to the next generation of the 3-Series and the production version of the Vision ED concept sports car.
Carscoop reader Andras from Hungary was vacationing in Obertauern, Austria when he spotted this convoy of BMWs comprising of both masked prototypes and normal production cars, including a sedan in full body cladding. Check out Andras' photos and story after the jump.
Andras Deak's Scoop:
"I am currently in Obertauern, Austria for my holidays and discovered a small parking place dedicated to BMW. I walked there to check the cars and took some pictures.
There were 4 "cooling boxes" for cars. At the parking area I recognized a heavily camouflaged next-gen BMW 3-Series (possibly a hybrid version), the brand new X3 with some light camouflage (also possible hybrid version) and several 5-Series... Note that all the cars were plugged into something which looked like an electric charger to me.. Maybe a plug-in hybrid?
The interior of the next-gen 3-Series looks like all the new BMWs these days. It looked like a small 7-Series from the inside. The navigation screen is huge. I could see several fingerprints on the screen (maybe touchscreen?), but also an iDrive controller..."
Köszönöm for the pictures Andras!
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7 Comments:
Are you sure that the heavily camouflaged sedan is the new 3 series? Cause to me it looks the 5 series, and I know they have no reasons to drive a camouflaged 5 series 1 year after it's premiere, but who knows, maybe BMW is trying something diferent, like a hybrid, but the proportions don't look like a 3 series :/
It's nothing special - waste of time to see these pictures.
Anon#2 It´s also a waste of time to read your comment!
Unfortunatelly he didn´t get some close-ups of the stickers inside. You can learn a lot from what they say!
Wondering why that Golf (pics 3 & 4) is covered...
The sedan is definitely a 5 Series.
"It's nothing special - waste of time to see these pictures."Look,there's a plug so bmw is planning a e car disguised as a 5.
It´s a 5-series. The 3-series is camouflaged with the psycho camo from the first day on. BMW is not using the black panel camo anymore.
And the plug is the engine heater (like they always use during coldness testing).
Thats the 5-series, old prototype. as Carspy says, the cable is for the engine heater.
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