Wrong!

[KLang]

This is just Wrong! :saywhat:

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/autos/m3_pickup_300-2.jpg

Story (http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1786/caught-testing-bmw-m3-pickup/)

[chop456]

More or less wrong than a Cayenne or Panamera? Or that stupid new Ferrari?

[Elmo T]

BMW to NASCAR's Truck Series!

[devilmaster]

Maybe they wanted to take on the Holden Maloo....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/2010_HSV_Maloo_%28E_Series_2_MY10%29_R8_utility_01 .jpg/800px-2010_HSV_Maloo_%28E_Series_2_MY10%29_R8_utility_01 .jpg

[Don Quixote]

The target demographic must be 30 something professionals who make a run to the garden store every weekend, but are too status conscious to be seen in a Ford Ranger. :shakehead

[KLang]

Actually the story says it is just a one-off. Apparently the folks at the BMW factory have too much spare time on their hands. :p

[SteveH]

Which Bodine brother will be racing that?

[Indy]

More or less wrong than a Cayenne or Panamera? Or that stupid new Ferrari?

There are three Cayennes on my street. People with more money than taste. :shakehead

So my neighbor said that he was thinking about getting one. I told him it was a VW Toureg for double the price. He said, "not really, the VW is not a Porsche." :laugh: I should have said, no, it is an Audi Q7 for men without size issues. :saywhat:

[opinionated ow]

Lots of Australian products mentioned in this thread so far (Malloo, Ranger) but this whole ute BMW thing is actually stolen from Australia too:
http://www.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/m5_ute_002.thumbnail.jpg
http://www.caradvice.com.au/17241/applebys-m5-ute-at-deni-muster/

[Don Quixote]

There are three Cayennes on my street. People with more money than taste. :shakeheadThere is one on my street, and the more money than brains/taste scenario is dead on. The bimbo that drives it has dented it about three times in parking lots and it always goes straight into the body shop for beaucoup $$$$. And to top it off, they don't want to risk driving it in the snow. :D

[extramundane]

There are three Cayennes on my street. People with more money than taste. :shakehead

Last spring, one of our seniors (that's high school senior, mind you) here received one as a pre-graduation present.

I understand he made it to July before totaling it. :shakehead

[TKGAngel]

There are three Cayennes on my street. People with more money than taste. :shakehead

How about those people with more money than common sense who take their Boxster to a hockey game in Buffalo in March and park it on a semi-sketchy street to avoid paying parking fees for lot parking?


Last spring, one of our seniors (that's high school senior, mind you) here received one as a pre-graduation present.

Wow. At my high school, the go-to sweet 16 present was a fully loaded jeep grand cherokee.

[extramundane]

Wow. At my high school, the go-to sweet 16 present was a fully loaded jeep grand cherokee.

The parents in question owned a 6 suite, 31 bathroom, 32,000sq ft house built (and furnished) to look like a medieval English castle. When Dad moved on to wife #3 (or 4? Who can keep track?), he unloaded the house quickly for $11.5million, which was reportedly a big loss.

Sense and taste were not particularly in abundance.

[cameraman]

The parents in question owned a 6 suite, 31 bathroom, 32,000sq ft house built (and furnished) to look like a medieval English castle.

I suppose this is due to my relatively plebeian existence but what does it mean to have a 6 suite house? What is that six - 5000 sqft 6-bathrooms houses grafted in one hideous structure? Sounds like something a polygamist would build.

[racer2c]

The parents in question owned a 6 suite, 31 bathroom, 32,000sq ft house built (and furnished) to look like a medieval English castle. When Dad moved on to wife #3 (or 4? Who can keep track?), he unloaded the house quickly for $11.5million, which was reportedly a big loss.

Sense and taste were not particularly in abundance.

Street view that sucka!

[Don Quixote]

Street view that sucka!

Ditto!

[NismoZ]

I live in a recessed area. Around here for graduation the Moms just spring for the daughters boob job(s):p (BTW, $63,990???!)

[extramundane]

Medieval was the wrong word (I haven't been out there in 5 years...the memory fades). More like Faux-Tudor. Ish.

http://www.luxist.com/2007/08/16/dover-hall-esate-of-the-day/

[racer2c]

Medieval was the wrong word (I haven't been out there in 5 years...the memory fades). More like Faux-Tudor. Ish.

http://www.luxist.com/2007/08/16/dover-hall-esate-of-the-day/

Not my style (which I would describe as 'poor guy decor') but its pretty cool for someone into that sort of thing. I'd probably get a King complex if I lived there. Walk around in a velvet rob and a crown and have lots of beautiful female servants...:D I would. Yep.

[cameraman]

He spends eleven million but doesn't bother to hire an architect who has even a little bit of a clue about tudor architecture:shakehead

[Gnam]

I think a BMW El Camino would look good in front of that house.

Business upfront, party out back. :gomer:

[extramundane]

He spends eleven million but doesn't bother to hire an architect who has even a little bit of a clue about tudor architecture:shakehead

His wife had a pretty good architect, anyway.

[Don Quixote]

He spends eleven million but doesn't bother to hire an architect who has even a little bit of a clue about tudor architecture:shakeheadMaybe, but a guy could hook up with all kinds of young bubbleheaded trophies in a place like that. I wonder where the indoor basketball court is?

[chop456]

This made me giggle a bit:

http://www.suntimes.com/business/4331665-420/burr-ridge-mansion-floods-extensive-repairs-needed.html

[Don Quixote]

This made me giggle a bit:

http://www.suntimes.com/business/4331665-420/burr-ridge-mansion-floods-extensive-repairs-needed.htmlAwesome.

[Andrew Longman]

This made me giggle a bit:

http://www.suntimes.com/business/4331665-420/burr-ridge-mansion-floods-extensive-repairs-needed.html

Pipe broke because the heat was off? Someone forget to fill the oil tank? I really hope that's not the reality's fault. That would have been a stupid mistake but not as stupid as building that house.

OTOH, if I was saddled with that stupid house, creating a massive flood might be a little less suspicious to the insurance company than torching it. ;)

[Gnam]

I hope the garage is ok.

[JohnHKart]

Last spring, one of our seniors (that's high school senior, mind you) here received one as a pre-graduation present.

I understand he made it to July before totaling it. :shakehead


The first Cayenne I ever saw was a brand new one that was totalled. April 2004 on my way to Vegas, just out of Baker climbing the hill the dip**** had been speeding through a construction zone and hit a truck working there or something. Whole right side of the vehicle smashed in. Didn't look like any injuries. But what an idiot.

[nrc]

Saw a Panamera live for the first time at the car show last weekend. Oh. My. God. That thing looks like someone scraped all the ugly off of an entire fleet of Cayennes and poured it in a pile on the ground. :yuck: