Over the years, BMW’s had a few tricks their sleeves. Since April Fool’s joke runs longer than some of our readers (and writers!) Were alive, the Bavarian car manufacturer is certainly not a stranger for a mood. The latest – the excellent and almost desirable M2 Dakar – is just one of many highlights. But at over 30 years of the fool, there are a few upstairs. In retrospect, there are some of our favorite APRILCH jokes from BMW.
BMW Opiglass (1995)
“You don’t need glasses. You need a BMW,” is the slogan for one of our favorite BMW joke, BMW Optiglass. The car manufacturer “demonstrated it in 1995” and claimed that “58% of the drivers wear or need glasses when driving”, so “3, 5, 7 and 8 Series BMWs can be equipped with opiglass – the perfect solution for those who suffer from less than 20/20 vision”. In the joke, it continued that a switch mounted on the dashboard could change the “refractive index” of the windshield and corresponds to an “lens that fits all drivers”. There was even a memory function that could save a selection and brings a wide range of drivers!
BMW Wail (1997)
“A BMW for the animal kingdom”, indeed. Wail was a concept – which is even more important, a joke – BMW ran along, which enabled the drivers to communicate with nature. The doctors of the Bavarian Institute of Zoology have apparently developed a way to generate frequencies outside the normal area of humans (more than 20,000 Hz) as a method of removing animals from the road by issuing a high-frequency tone height from the vehicle park’s park retreat system. Wehklemm – or the wild acoustic information connections – was “available for selected models on April 1, but only in the UK.
Shef technology from BMW (2004)
Satellites hypersensitive electromagnetic footration technology or Shef allowed drivers to cook their dinner out of their car. The buttons decorated the bezel of the tiny Idrive screen at the time, which is decorated with words that you may feel more comfortable in your kitchen as a car like “grill” and “oven”. BMW has even advertised a camera system with which they were able to monitor their meals, and why should they not be observed with recipe proposals such as “chicken a la M42”. The recipes were on a separate side to which the AD was diverted.
BMW distracts the wheel (2005)
BMW’s report in Great Britain from BMW claimed that the EU had banned the right hand drive cars and BMW “not to make the bike”. Handfree steering was the right way, the complaint claimed and based on a combination of voice commands and sensors so that the car had found its way. BMW claimed that drivers and passengers could change when entering/exit in Great Britain, which would absorb the retractable measuring devices and pedals. If the drivers were not yet comfortable, a padded metal bar could be “triggered from the dashboard” so that the drivers could lean on. It is still better than the stupid Tesla -Joch.
M3 Pickup (2011)
Probably one of the best known jokes that BMW pulled, because it really was that the M3 pickup was an E92 M3 with a Targo roof and was chopped off at the back and offered the comfort and style of open top cruises and an open bed. Claims to be the “fastest collection of the world” and at the time when it would have been likely, the M3 pickup advertised up to 450 kg capacity and 420 hp. The advertisement teased the car as on test drives of the Nürburgring “Before his debut on April 1”, which was announced by many readers. The clarification came to the conclusion that the M3 pickup is unfortunately a unique one.
The latest April Fool’s joke from Bavaria is already one of my favorites, but we would be happy to hear from those of which they believe that they should make the cut in the comments below.
