Strange cars I saw this week

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ToadToes0314@reddit

Ahh new BMWs probably testing the new turn-signal option. They’ve been working on this tech for decades

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I_Think_I_Cant@reddit

Dazzle camouflage to keep the exact details of unreleased cars obfuscated.

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House_Of_Doubt@reddit

Ah yes, we wouldn’t want other OEMs to copy the ubiquitous blob shape that all other cross-over SUVs have these days.

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KnowNothing_JonSnoo@reddit

Heh, when they try to be slick people complain its ugly or too weird, when they don't innovate, people complain it boring.

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Tacticalmeat@reddit

The only thing the cyber truck has going for it. It's ugly but at least it's different

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Chemical_Rutabaga640@reddit

I love seeing cars like this. I live in Columbus Ohio and see cars coming down from Honda/Acura Marysville. Even if it’s just the new Passport or whatever, It’s still fun.

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Haunting_Dragonfly_3@reddit

Super common here in MI. Usually have M plates and random external sensors.

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RefinedPhoenix@reddit

Remember that Adrian van Hooydonk signed off on these

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DanGTG@reddit

Too damn ugly to go out in public without a camo wrap.

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Warrington17415@reddit

Live in the Detroit area and you will see camouflaged vehicles like this every day. Often with weird sensors, bulky foam shapes, etc, but usually with a "Manufacturer" labeled license plate.

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grandthefthouse@reddit

I swear this is a gas station in Ann Arbor

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nautzi@reddit

Those have manufacturers plates from SC on them

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seang239@reddit

Yea, you’re looking at it. That’s the wrap to use if you don’t want cameras/people to recognize anything special about your vehicle. Besides that wrap making it unique of course..

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Chemical_Result4981@reddit

2027 vehicle test drive, they don't want the public to see them yet.

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x_x-O_o-x_x@reddit

Yeah we could never tell they are just more milk toast run of the mill SUV's

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MasterofPeridots@reddit

They could have just drove them without the camo and no one except car journalists who are desperate to get press cars would notice.

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Due_Break4208@reddit

My mom use to to this for ford. They were just regular paint jobs.

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Downside190@reddit

Arguably even the press probably wouldn't be able to tell without advanced warning if they were just painted a regular black colour

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AquaFlowPlumbingCo@reddit

That’s milquetoast for the pedantic

I hate myself as much as you do, trust me

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ZiM1970@reddit

When grim pedanticism battles mere facetiousness,

The Point seems always the first casualty,

Yet be forever missed.

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DDESTRUCTOTRON@reddit

They look like the same cars that are out today

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NoEditor0@reddit

Ive been wrapping cars for 13 years and Ive never heard of this. I wanna do it!

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Competition-Dapper@reddit

Let me guess, they look like a douche bag would drive them and ride your add on the interstate

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sakhabeg@reddit

I wonder why they even put in the effort. The final car will be a boring, soap shaped SUV crossover whatever in a shade of gray. The only mystery left is how ugly they manage to make the front.

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Test vehicles from the manufacturer.. testing company may be KETT engineering, LDW or another company.. i use to work for Roush - West Coast Vehicle Testing center as a test driver and all of our cars had this car camouflage on them.. our testing contracts was with Kia, Hyundai , Acura, BMW, and Ford..

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nightowl_7680@reddit

Pre-production mules is what they are called.

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NJNeal17@reddit

Wraps have become common for unreleased models of cars.

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JMS1991@reddit

South Carolina manufacturer plates, likely BMW prototypes. They build most of the SUV models in Greer, SC, and I see prototypes camouflaged on the road here pretty often. It's strange to see a car in the camo though, since those aren't built here.

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adale_50@reddit

Test mules. Probably final designs at this point. Either way, they don't want anyone to be able to see the body lines and copy their design. They want the reveal and launch to be special.

Spoiler alert: It's the same boring cars as every other manufacturer with the same tiny face lift they do every few years.

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Somsanite7@reddit

Erlkönig/e

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simnie69@reddit

Upcoming BMW’s. The new 7 series is on the left, for example

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pukesonyourshoes@reddit

Wrap covering the indicators - BMW confirmed

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abooth43@reddit

Undoubtedly BMWs, evidenced by the one on the right parking in the pedestrian aisle

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jimmyslaughter@reddit

Gonna be hard to plot a firing solution on those vehicles.

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SpaceXmars@reddit

Test mules

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Chunderfork@reddit

The longer ears are how I always figure it out.

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nocloudno@reddit

I saw one at a gas station and asked the guy why his car was like that and he was quickly added to my very short list of absolute douchbags based on his response.

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NaBUru38@reddit

Test drivers are famous for shushing away any curious person.

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TedWheeler11@reddit

And that response was??

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dreamogorgon@reddit

I think you just go played 😆

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Idiotwithaphone79@reddit

Incognito mode.

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NaBUru38@reddit

Sus suvs

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ashyjay@reddit

I want to say BMWs as they use that camo and the wheel designs look like their current ones, but the door handles look like the Ford Mach-E and Volvo EX60, but could also be Mercedes.

They'll be BMWs, Mercs, VWs, or Volvos as they all have factories in SC.

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simnie69@reddit

BMW is also going to use those doorhandles on the X7. No idea why, but there is enough evidence of this

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ashyjay@reddit

Looks small to be an X7.

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NaBUru38@reddit

It's likely an X5. In any case, there will be an X9.

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avj@reddit

After much debate, the design team decided to make the 2027 models more accurately reflect the owner's genitals.

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BigCyanDinosaur@reddit

Rims are BMW OEM

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parasiticsemiosis@reddit

Erlkönige

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081cdda033e8381008ca@reddit

textures haven’t loaded in yet

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-SQB-@reddit

This is called Erlkönig, they're upcoming models, camouflaged to make it hard to make out the exact shape and lines, doing test drives in the outside world.

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dth1717@reddit

Live around Dearborn you see that stuff a lot

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NoSalamander7749@reddit

What's going on here I wonder. The other license plates don't look this blurry/choppy, and I can still read the state - camera error maybe?

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killmesara@reddit

These are prototype vehicles. They get wrapped like this so no one can copy designes. I know because O used to work for Jaguar Landrover as a robust test engineer and our drivers drove wrapped cars like these everyday. The cars are being tested under real world conditions. Mostly drive train tests. Its a pretty great job if you can get hired. Which all you have to do is pass a drug test and a driving test

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rockstar_not@reddit

When I was an engineer at GM, we called these “vehicle rides or ride trips”, where a multi-road type, multi-use set of driving conditions was scheduled for mostly product development engineering staff and execs - to try to discover yet undiscovered real world driving conditions might show up, or ensure that a known issue had been properly taken care of. Conditions that might not occur in the labs or proving grounds. Usually some type of extreme operating condition would be a central feature, that was difficult to simulate in any other way. Sometimes the team would try to get creative and use styling elements, badges, etc. from competitor brands to try to confuse both casual observers like you, or automotive press and photographers.

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