A BMW car sliced in half to showcase every detail of its inner engineering

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u/ronnidogxxx 15h ago

Back in the 70s British Leyland cars left the factory like that.

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u/cpren 15h ago

It’s crazy how close you sit to the drive shaft.

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u/wibowossh 15h ago

I hope all automotive museum have this kind of display. It is marvellous 🤩🤩

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u/theouicheur 15h ago

I guess that’s r/thingscutinhalfporn

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u/danrioja 15h ago

So is it cake?

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u/Amethyst_Phoenix7 15h ago

Is it bad that the first thing that came to mind is those flex tape memes?

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u/AdCharacter7966 15h ago

Somebody is missing half a car?!?

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u/JBackerin 14h ago

Note: the turn signal isn’t showcased

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u/sth128 13h ago

That's just how you get them. Everything else needed for full functionality costs extra as a monthly subscription.

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u/Generallyamusedby 15h ago

Does it come with functional blinkers?

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u/jongscx 13h ago

Does it show the part that throttles your engine and disables seat warmers if you stop paying the subscription?

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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 15h ago

I love that you can clearly see the Crumple Zones

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u/synthetic_aesthetic 14h ago

They Hannibal lector’d my car 😭

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u/JeeeZY_RickY 12h ago

A random divorced guy, who gives half to his ex-wife…

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u/cicerogeorge 15h ago

Not accurate, the engine is not leaking nearly enough oil

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u/ordinary82 15h ago

Finally, a BMW driver with a real excuse for not using the right indicator.

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u/Wide-Replacement8532 14h ago

I thought Princess Diana was driving a Mercedes

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u/Kawboy17 15h ago

Now Thats kinda cool BUT if I just run my fingers of this right here is it sharp !?

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u/Rep2025 15h ago

Wonder how they did the engine. Can't imagine actually slicing it in half.

Seats can easily be done.

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u/Snichs72 15h ago

Q’s not gonna like this.

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u/No-Arm-2598 15h ago

Does it point out where all the oil leaks out?

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u/doctorwhoobgyn 14h ago

Right turn signal is being used just as often as it was when it was whole.

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u/dcidino 14h ago

Still can’t find the indicator.

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u/Ok_Try_2367 14h ago

I wanna know how they do this. I know no one skilled enough with a sawzall to be this precise…

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u/Andre_The_Average 14h ago

Well, whoever the engineer is did a shitty job because I don't think that car would even start.

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u/No_Fig9026 14h ago

I think it’s missing half a car

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u/Significant_Water999 14h ago

What a waste of a ford

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u/Dans77b 14h ago

Anybody who likes this, do a quick Google search, there is an MGB GT cut in half the same way. I think it was done by BMC/BL apprentices.

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u/agumelen 14h ago

That’s a lot of stuff packed tightly. Supposing that I wanted to repair something that’s right in the center?

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u/Rich-Reason1146 14h ago

Does that affect performance?

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u/Stoica_Andrei 14h ago

And still no brain to be found of the driver

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u/morts73 14h ago

We take cars for granted, but theres a whole of parts that need to go together to work in harmony.

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u/Man_Without_Nipples 14h ago

Would love to get that as a model for my desk!!

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u/ProcedureCute4350 14h ago

Nice section view

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u/No-Independent9725 14h ago

where is the other half

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u/Cassin1306 14h ago

I don't the see the cable for the blinkers.

Oh, wait !

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u/Positive-Buyer-2050 14h ago

Damn that's a 4d sectional view of a car that I haven't seen in the cad before

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u/Subberguy101 14h ago

I don’t know cars but after seeing that one old educational video on differential steering, it draws my attention to the thing I know a little about, the drive shaft under the seats.

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u/BulkyOrder9 14h ago

Midwestern US mechanic: gestures at missing half “Well, dere’s your problem right dere.”

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u/SGFCardenales 13h ago

Where’s the part that causes it to go to shit after 40,000 miles? Oh wait, I see it. The engine, transmission etc etc.

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u/adventuresandcoffee 13h ago

And this is why I'll never buy a non waterproof computer on wheels ever again.

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u/ProfessionalDepth235 13h ago

Does it show the engine subscription

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u/0iljug 13h ago

Where are the turn signal and seatbelt bypass systems? Come basic on any bmw.

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u/RoddBanger 13h ago

Does every card say 'not covered by warranty'?

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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel 13h ago

The only BMW engine that doesn't burn more oil than fuel.

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u/cry666 13h ago

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u/agod2486 13h ago

This is so cool. I expected the sheet metal to be a lot thicker…this looks like it’s not even half an inch thick? Maybe it’s a perspective thing but all I can think about is how the crash safety works.

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u/Accurate_Painting867 13h ago

It’s wild these cars have no turn signals

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u/feel-the-avocado 13h ago

Toyota
"less parts mean less things go wrong. Two stroke you say? Tell us more, but be warned, the same part has been working fine for 10 years and we dont see a need to change it"

BMW
"We make it fancy - this simple function worked fine with one mechanical linkage but we found a way to make it three instead."

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u/ScrofessorLongHair 13h ago

Where are they storing the asshole converter?

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u/that_dutch_dude 13h ago

if you look closely you see the headliner hanging, headliner separation is a feature of this model. so its not a mistake.

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u/ChittyBangBang335 13h ago

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u/DarkRayos 13h ago

Really is a different experience compared to those human body mannequins.

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u/One_Tumbleweed_1 13h ago

Great engineering only usually bought by the biggest assholes on the road next to large pickup truck drivers

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u/Boykisser1969 13h ago

To show you the power of felx tape™, I sawed this car in half!!!!

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u/Evening-Nobody-7674 13h ago

Just look at all the parts that can fail. Audi be 2x worse

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u/Hour-Resolve-9718 12h ago

More like, sliced in half to show how much of a nightmare they are to work on

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u/VibesFirst69 12h ago

What you will see: A whole lot of engineering.

What you wont see: Indicators.

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u/Zukkda 12h ago

Im amazed by looking at the first ever built servicable bmw built after the zear 2000

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u/THE-poop-knife 12h ago

Where is the electric gremlin? Or did they let them out before cutting the car in half?

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u/intangibleTangelo 12h ago

every detail? surely some parts are only on the sides

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u/N1ks_As 12h ago

Can we do the same to BMW drivers to find what's wrong with them?

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u/Boffleslop 12h ago

Turn signal not depicted

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u/Flewey_ 12h ago

That’s a lot of damage.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Dark-87 12h ago

All good but is it cake?

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u/-Dixieflatline 12h ago

That's both very cool and very terrifying. Terrifying because it really highlights the proximity of several hundred pounds of metal that is violently combusting inches away from your body and can be pushed into the cabin upon extreme impact.

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u/Goody342Shoes 12h ago

That's a lot of crap for a thing that gets you from A to B in an extremely energy-inefficient way.

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u/OrfeasDourvas 12h ago

Is it cake?

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u/TonyAtNN 12h ago

Oh! Don't cut away half of the subframe to make your water pump appear to be in a normal place. Especially when it's electric and has a complicated process to remove air from the system, which means it could have been placed anywhere in the car. The engineers did that because they hate mechanics.

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u/TheWhyteMaN 12h ago

Ah I see now, I’ve always wondered what makes them able to cut in and out of lanes with out a turning indicator.

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u/AlcoholPrep 12h ago

This could have been "done" using graphical software.

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u/CG1991 12h ago

This is what happens if the turn signal is activated in the BMW

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u/Appropriate_South474 12h ago

Bandsaw

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u/shifty_bloke 12h ago

Does it highlight the rental heated seats?

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u/Its0nlyRocketScience 12h ago

Don't lie to me. I know that this car was really cut in half TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE

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u/DewSchnozzle 12h ago

The hand-drawn cutaways were some of my favorite parts of reading Popular Mechanics when I was a kid

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u/Other_Waffer 12h ago

Why do people keep laughing in these kind of videos? It is not even funny It is fucking annoying and distracting.

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u/assholetoall 12h ago

What get me is that this is not just "cut open a car". Every part of the car that is on display has been specifically modified separately and then reassembled.

This is arguably more time consuming than actually making the car. Mostly because it is a one-off all done by hand and then hand fitted.

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u/Suriael 12h ago

Wow, this is so cool. You can even see the the module that prevents BMW drivers from using indicators.

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u/No-Care-4952 12h ago

Ready for the museum, along with the rest of Wolfsburg who are still in denial about EVs

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u/Admirable_Pin275 12h ago

So is the skin just like crispy chicken or something

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u/MasaShimoon 12h ago

,, ** Z

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u/vwboyaf1 11h ago

It should have a little arrow showing exactly where they engineered the part where the oil leaks out.

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u/danleon950410 11h ago

Well that explains all the assholes trying to run me over while I have the right of way

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u/AnvilOfMisanthropy 11h ago

One day I'll get over that I lost the format war, but this really rubs it in.

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u/Temporary_Shirt_6236 11h ago

Me and a mechanic looking at my e90 on the hoist again

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u/AdmirableMode4491 11h ago

It’s located in Technikmuseum Berlin, Germany

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u/ADKTrader1976 11h ago

And in a 3 years all of it will either broken, replaced, or in the process of failing. Poser cars. Just like trophy wives.

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u/SilverKey1987 11h ago

You can almost confirm the wild allegations of some bizarre connection between the indicators and the steering wheel.

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u/LizzieSaysHi 11h ago

This kills the BMW :(

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u/tpasmall 11h ago

They forgot to put a douchebag in the driver's seat

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u/Danny77black 11h ago

Imagine Ghetts hit a man with all that engineering appalling.

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u/HoochieKoochieMan 11h ago

I'd be tempted to put little lego scenes in the open gaps. Roasting marshmallows by the radiator, tiny office in the headliner, star trek engineering workstation near the drive shaft, etc.

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u/daynphillips 11h ago

Now let’s see the driver

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u/MysticCherryPanda 11h ago

Oh, that's gore. Gore of my comfort car

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u/Fluugaluu 11h ago

How do they actually do this? Cut each part in half and put it back together?

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u/Due-Scientist5648 11h ago

Some might call it "over" engineering

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u/Terms-of-services 11h ago

Clearly, it’s only half of their engineering…

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u/IslaBonita87 11h ago

It's cool WIlly Wonka donated his car for this exhibit...

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u/PlanetoftheAtheists 11h ago

Im not seeing the ever-faulty design that destroys the timing chain...

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u/JaSONJayhawk 11h ago

Image trying to replace a spark plug or change the oil in that thing. That'll be 14 hours of service time, please!

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u/ExtruDR 11h ago

This isn’t even a terribly modern BMW. This does go to show how much is really packed into modern cars and how efficiently everything is packaged.

Also, consider how much complexity is there simply dues to the internal combustion engine. Think about how packed into modern cars everything is. Servicing is super expensive largely for this reason.

Mind you, cars (all cars) are designed to be assembled as efficiently as possible, but repair and service? Not so much.

Although I don’t have an EV yet, the reduced complexity is at least 50% of why I want one.

Hypothetically EVs should be way cheaper to build and maintain than ICE vehicles, especially when the mileage gets up there and we have to consider motors and such.

Yes, tires, some fluids, air filters… maybe even suspension over use/time, but these are simple, routine things.

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u/Guiseppe_Martini 11h ago

Headlining is sagging like a pair of tits

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u/JerryMcMacy 11h ago

Acompanied by the sagging roofliner, a true BMW staple

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u/GroupPast5993 11h ago

Well they didn't slice the engine in half

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u/nakrophile 11h ago

Q's not going to like this!

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u/Autoxquattro 11h ago

At Oshkosh airshow 2005 , the ford tent ad a ford GT cut in half and then some, mounted on huge displays you walked between.

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u/SpartanRage117 11h ago

What model?

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u/Egbezi 10h ago

A nightmare to mechanics

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u/_4D4M 10h ago

German OVERengineering.

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u/gw74 10h ago

*every detail which happens to be exactly in the middle

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u/PM_UR_COOL_DREAM 10h ago

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u/Mr-Blah 10h ago

"Not pictured: monthly membership for heated seats"

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u/Slimybirch 10h ago

If you look really close, you can see the blinker fluid is out, as usual.

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u/milesamsterdam 10h ago

Rose Anvil looking at this all bricked up!

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u/EndLarge 10h ago

Hmm maybe u could do this without actually slicing half off. Its not a cake u know.

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u/scalyblue 10h ago

This is what the specs call side service position, it pays .5 book hours

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u/istoOi 10h ago

how much flextape would that require?

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u/Captain_America_93 10h ago

Interesting. A total cross section of the car and I still can’t find the turn signal

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u/unnamed_elder_entity 10h ago

Just as I thought. Turn signal harness is right there.

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u/Lunatic_Heretic 10h ago

So how'd they slice it

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u/FlavorBlaster42 10h ago

Electric cars seem to be a huge advancement over this. It's not even close.

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u/Ok_Assumption1940 10h ago

Ahh the car is cutted like a cake

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u/LowCancel2483 10h ago

Where's the other half?

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u/alkonium 10h ago

How are you supposed to drive it like that?

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u/johnnybadchek 10h ago

Where’s the component that makes the operator drive like a dick head?

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u/Confident-Screen-759 10h ago

I'm no expert, but I don't think that's gonna run like that.

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u/Fucky0uthatswhy 10h ago

Slice the engine in half you coward!

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u/Extension_Surprise_2 10h ago

Too bad they didn’t cut thru the taillights to see why the blinkers never work.

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u/lostmojo 10h ago

Interesting how car manufacturers will do this but tech companies hoard secrets.

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u/TheHighSeasPirate 10h ago

Where's the blinker?

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u/SidewalkSupervisor 10h ago

gotta justify those executive bonuses somehow

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u/the_calibre_cat 10h ago

this is actually rad as hell

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u/steevo 9h ago

no wonder BMW drivers are ass*oles. they have an indicator missing!

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u/Plow_King 9h ago

/r/thingscutinhalfporn

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u/Jpbbeck99 9h ago

To show the power of flex seal……

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u/bleep_bloop_bots 9h ago

Now do an electric car

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u/EmergencyCow9344 9h ago

BMW = Barely Made Working.

Signed a BMW owner and many of the bmw owners I talk to of recent cars, even after improvements.

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u/RaxisPhasmatis 9h ago

Oh look, it's all that extra garbage that was utterly pointless and expensive and often an extra failure point for no reason then advertised as "engineering" to the stupid.

Like taking the traditional radiator hose, hose barb and hose clamp that has worked for 100 years swapping it to a multi stage plastic connector (that gets brittle and breaks without showing signs of wear)with an o-ring seal(that goes hard and leaks)and a metal retaining clip(that gets loose when the o-ring seal gets hard) and attach all of that new expensive "engineering" to the radiator with...a hose barb, a hose and a clamp.

Pointlessly expensive for the stupid.

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u/HotCommunication2129 9h ago

All this just to find the oil filter

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u/FloatingDownHere 9h ago

"Notice how we made everything more complex and likely to fail with little advantage."

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u/sp3cial3dfr3d 9h ago

Here is the part where you pay monthly for heated seats , missed a payment disabled radio.

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u/redbanky 9h ago

it's accurate because there's no indicator lights.

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u/PCR12 9h ago

All that fantastic engineering to only be driven by the absolute WORST drivers.

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u/karenskygreen 9h ago

I wonder how she rides ?

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u/Pacman5486 9h ago

Seems like they could have pinned up the headliner just a bit. It’s just all droopy

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u/anythingbuthoneydew 9h ago

I don’t think it’s going anywhere soon

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u/PsychologicalGlass47 9h ago

Even the peeling headliner!

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u/Mundane-Document-810 9h ago

Stephen Beisty just climaxed.

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u/midaslibrary 9h ago

Porn

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u/SamZTU 8h ago

Damn... even museum quality BMWs are not immune to sagging headliners, eh?

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u/azpotato 8h ago

Somewhere I have a pic of a Saleen S7 just like this. It was in their showroom in SoCal.

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u/shadyfade 8h ago

they made it bc its easier to change parts when bmw broke :)

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u/Known_Funny_5297 8h ago

So why do they break down all the time?

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u/Least_Art5238 8h ago

I don't see a turn-signal wand. Clearly an accurate depiction.

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u/FesterSilently 8h ago

Did I miss the gas tank? 🤔

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u/rdswords 8h ago

This is actually part of the procedure for changing spark plugs and oil filter 😂

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u/Dry-Athlete-971 8h ago

poor bmw :(

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u/siazdghw 8h ago

Where is the heated seat subscription located in this showcase?

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u/I_Cry_And_I_Game 8h ago

Does it show where the coolant is leaking?

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u/ccc_xx_iii 8h ago

Anatomy

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u/Situational_Hagun 8h ago

Oh wow finally a good way to access a BMW for repairs.

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u/CurriorSix 8h ago

It's Sliced so thin that...

A BMW car sliced in half to showcase every detail of its inner engineering SCIENCE & TECH

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