[modkrazy]

To each their own and all... but does anyone feel the urge to steal the badges?

[Zyrock]

The non BMW brown car that is all marked up as an M is down right hillarious and clever. I try not to take myself to serious. That car is funny.

[Level3]

That VW is not a nod to the BMW M car. It's a nod to Porsche Martini Racing. VW owns Porsche.

Originally Posted by Move Over

\\\VMW

[p-lethal]

//M

[JTO24]

Found this one over on Rennlist:

http://rennlist.com/forums/991/98239...and-after.html

[8k_v8]

Spotted this gem last week. Didn't know BMW made a E93 328i M3 Owner should of opted for the "individual" self-parking option..

[R3dliner]

Seeing this way too much lately. Especially X5, X6

[Flying Ace]

Originally Posted by Level3

That VW is not a nod to the BMW M car. It's a nod to Porsche Martini Racing. VW owns Porsche.

Nice try...Not convinced. VW only recently owned Porsche... Certainly well after the Martini racing livery days

[aajjcc]

Originally Posted by JTO24

Found this one over on Rennlist:

http://rennlist.com/forums/991/98239...and-after.html

i think the dude is trolling to get a reaction

[DSilk]

Originally Posted by Flying Ace

Nice try...Not convinced. VW only recently owned Porsche... Certainly well after the Martini racing livery days

They have been sister companies since shortly after Porsche's inception. Ferdinand Porsche left Mercedes Benz to form his own company in 1931, designed the first Beetle in 1935, and all of the early 356 Porsches had engines that were based on the flat 4 units in the VW and suspensions taken from the Beetle. The 914 was marketed as a VW-Porsche in Europe (as was the 924), and both it and the 912 (and 912E) used VW engines.

There is a lot more relationship between the 2 companies than many Porsche snobs are willing to admit.

[JTO24]

Originally Posted by aajjcc

i think the dude is trolling to get a reaction

He has to be..

[Flying Ace]

Originally Posted by DSilk

They have been sister companies since shortly after Porsche's inception. Ferdinand Porsche left Mercedes Benz to form his own company in 1931, designed the first Beetle in 1935, and all of the early 356 Porsches had engines that were based on the flat 4 units in the VW and suspensions taken from the Beetle. The 914 was marketed as a VW-Porsche in Europe (as was the 924), and both it and the 912 (and 912E) used VW engines.

There is a lot more relationship between the 2 companies than many Porsche snobs are willing to admit.

Still rice. Find me one VW with Martini livery

[DSilk]

Originally Posted by Flying Ace

Still rice. Find me one VW with Martini livery

Martini isn't exclusively teamed with Porsche. Martini & Rossi has sponsored Lancia, Ford, and Alfa Romeo teams in addition to Porsche. It has sponsored powerboat racing and Formula 1 (including Brabham and Lotus), and won more titles with Lancia than with Porsche. Don't be such a snob.

[Flying Ace]

Originally Posted by DSilk

Martini isn't exclusively teamed with Porsche. Martini & Rossi has sponsored Lancia, Ford, and Alfa Romeo teams in addition to Porsche. It has sponsored powerboat racing and Formula 1 (including Brabham and Lotus), and won more titles with Lancia than with Porsche. Don't be such a snob.

Noticed how VW isn't mentioned...Go ahead and defend the poser

[loveskiing]

Originally Posted by DSilk

They have been sister companies since shortly after Porsche's inception. Ferdinand Porsche left Mercedes Benz to form his own company in 1931, designed the first Beetle in 1935, and all of the early 356 Porsches had engines that were based on the flat 4 units in the VW and suspensions taken from the Beetle. The 914 was marketed as a VW-Porsche in Europe (as was the 924), and both it and the 912 (and 912E) used VW engines.

There is a lot more relationship between the 2 companies than many Porsche snobs are willing to admit.

Since we're all about giving factual information the VW Beetle was designed by Josef Ganz a Jewish engineer but was never given credit because of his religion.

[DSilk]

Originally Posted by loveskiing

Since we're all about giving factual information the VW Beetle was designed by Josef Ganz a Jewish engineer but was never given credit because of his religion.

Ganz worked for Mercedes Benz at the same time as Porsche, and his "Standard Superior" design from 1931 bears some resemblance to the later Beetle (albeit the front looked more like the Citroen 2CV), but Ganz's design proposed a radial watercooled 5 cylinder engine as opposed to the flat 4 designed by Porsche. The swing axle rear suspension on the Beetle was clearly a Ganz design, as he had provided it earlier for Mercedes Benz. Ganz was arrested by the Gestapo on trumped up charges shortly before Porsche's Beetle design was commissioned by Hitler, and we can only speculate as to what impact Hitler's virulent anti-Semitism and a desire to take any credit away from Ganz had with respect to this.

[ccdre]

uhMMMM. I think the driver actually saw me taking the pic .

[Nothing]

Found this winner a week ago heading to Cars & Coffee.

[///M4ster Yoda]

Originally Posted by Nothing

Found this winner a week ago heading to Cars & Coffee.

And an M vanity plate to boot. How lame

[MaximusB]

And there is this, round piping welded right onto the trunk as spoiler stand.

[JoNaH]

Seems about right...

[///M4ster Yoda]

Originally Posted by JoNaH

Seems about right...

BMW has finally done it! The Buick M