Pre-Production Cars

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Back in early 2003, BMW built around 500 preproduction E60 5 Series which were lent out to various organisations around Munich in order to perform, ahem, robustness testing.  The cars were only mildly camouflaged and I used to see them frequently as I lived in Munich at the time and it certainly allowed me to acclimatise to the styling before it was launched. Anyway, one of them made it into the national press as the driver lost control of it whilst making progress on a country road in wet weather, It went through a crash barrier, demolished a brick barn and came to rest in a ditch. When the local fire brigade appeared they discovered 2 things. Firstly, the driver didn‘t need to be cut out of the wreck as he was standing next to it, relatively unscathed. Secondly, he was one of their mates from the local fire brigade. There used to be pictures of the crash on the interweb, but I‘ve not been able to find them.