This fat BMW is ideal transport for the Middle East. Nice grille too.
Are we used to BMW’s gigantic grille yet? It’s not really pretty, but it’s possible on an M3 or something like that. Kind of. Almost. Well, I don’t know. You get used to it, but if you look at some of those beautiful old BMWs again, they are a lot nicer. Well, at least it loosens the tongues. If only because of the controversial designs, BMW has relevance in the car market. Still important if you core strength making internal combustion engines, but everything is going electric. It seems like they care about it…
Speaking of electric, that is also this bizarre buggy. It is called the BMW Dune Taxi and it is a project of BMW Middle East. Underneath it is secretly not a BMW, but an Extreme E car. The specs are exactly the same as those of the Odyssey 21, the car the Extreme E teams use to chase through sandboxes. The powertrain with 544 hp comes from Spark Racing Technology and not from the BMW i7.
What does come from BMW is the design. It was designed by BMW Group Designworks. It is also somewhat visible. The gaping holes in the grille have finally found a car to fit: a Mad Max-esque desert buggy.
The only question is what BMW wants with it now. It seems that the Munich people are a bit upset with their brothers from the Middle East. BMW cannot emphasize strongly enough that it does not want to enter the Extreme E. BMW Middle East says about it:
The Dune Taxi symbolizes BMW’s ambition to challenge the status quo. That also goes for the BMW X, i and M cars on and off the road. Whatever the Dune Taxi can do in extreme conditions, the BMW X6 M, the BMW iX M60 and ultimately the upcoming BMW XM can do every day on tarmac, gravel, sand or snow.
Osama El Sherif, BMW Bro
Well well, we know that again so… Of which…
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