I recently read an article about BMW reviving the 8-series.
Further on in the article they mentioned that if BMW brings the old beast
back that an M version would most likely follow this time. This time? Was there
not an M8 in the nineties? I thought about this for second and thought surely
that couldn't be right. I figured, even if it was only a handful of old German
businessmen who owned them, someone had an M8 tucked away in their garage. I
was both wrong and right. See BMW did build an M version of the 8-series,
although they never mass-produced it and the only one built is kept hidden
in an underground BMW-Batcave away from cameras and attention. Das vvay no one
kould find zit.
Now some of you might have known that BMW never made an M8 but the other half would swear that they saw an M logo on an 8-series engine…and on the wheels….and the shift knob and they’d be right. But what no one saw was an M8, it was just M parts on an 8-series. The fact is an M8 concept was built in hopes of competing with Ferrari, but got cut down before ever making it into production. So the concept went were most concepts from BMW go, to BMW’s Giftschrank (poison storage) far underneath the well lit displays and warm wood floors of the BMW museum. I had never heard of this poison storage until last week, but apparently it is a BMW fan’s perfect nightmare. Multiple BMW 3-series pickup trucks, a 7-series with a V16, M3 estates, weird sports cars and more. It’s cool because of the rarity but also kind of depressing once you think about it. There are some amazing cars down there that will never be driven, produced, or shown sunlight again. Also no one from the media or important members of the public is allowed down there either, so you can rule visiting it off of your bucket list. The photos in the links below are the only photos that exist, taken after BMW allowed a photographer 15-minute access…once.
Click the links to see the photos and feel free to leave your favorite model from the poison storage in the comments below.
Photo by Shane K via http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanes_stuff/
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