TG drives the BMW M3 Ute - Top Gear
Because I’m staring at a bona fide BMW M3 pickup. Made by BMW. Yes, BMW’s M Division has a Ute. Pickup 001 officially, but it’s clearly an Aussie-style Ute: car upfront, truck out back, the mullet of automobiles. And, equally obviously, logic states that if you need someone to test-drive a Jaguar, you send an Englishman, if you need someone to coax an Alfa to a mechanic, you call an Italian. But when you need someone to test a Ute, you send an Aussie. So here I am, TG magazine Australia’s editor and official Ute correspondent, preparing to assess a BMW M3, chopped and trayed into an honest-to-god Aussie Ute, V8 donk and all, by driving it at high speed down an autobahn. Australia, generally, has lots of speed limits. Which is almost certainly the first time anyone’s ever said that about a German joke. See, BMW engineers created the M3 pickup as a sort of April Fool’s funny, in the sort of deadpan, overly literal way only Germans can. But where other carmakers would have ‘leaked’ a production sketch, the Bavarians went into a workshop, chopped the back end out of an M3 convertible, and welded in a footplate to make a pickup. As I’m easing it out of the BMW Tech Centre, I hop out for a minute to shove. Source: www.topgear.com
