But wait. The auctioneer stopped the bidding when he noticed the price on the screen was wrong. ...
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Defining moments in the history of the BMW Group
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Defining moments in the history of the BMW Group.
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One particularly interesting bit regarded the shooting brake, which Nurnberger said, "we sort of started it and then realized to make a really good shooting brake we had to do a lot more engineering." Thus, the long-roof Vanquish actually has a longer wheelbase than the rest of the cars. According to Nunberger, the rear of the car is taken from a modular platform and is essentially a rear of a Rapide that has been added on. Of course, that required total reengineering, retesting, as well as re-crashing to bring it to production......
We've seen this before: automakers offering the first example of a highly anticipated new model up for auction to benefit a charity...
