BMW Secretly Built An E30 M3 Pickup And Used It For 26 Years

In 1986, the same year BMW launched the original E30 M3, someone inside the company had a radical idea. Take a convertible, gut the rear end, fit a load bed, and put it to work on the factory floor. That is exactly what happened. For 26 years, this one-of-a-kind pickup moved parts and equipment around BMW’s facilities without anyone outside the company knowing it existed. BMW didn’t retire it until 2012. It was only revealed to the public in 2016, and this year, with the M3 turning 40, BMW has brought the E30 M3 pickup out to the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como to finally give it the spotlight it never had.

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