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BMW's motorcycle division, Motorrad, is celebrating on July 5 the annual event where it shows its latest products. And what better way to start a motorcycling meeting that to show a one-off pickup truck based on the X7?
At the beginning of June, Czech carmaker Skoda presented the Mountiaq, a Kodiaq-based pickup truck designed by a team of 35 apprentices from the Skoda’s Vocational School. Exciting as that concept may have seemed at the time, it doesn’t even come close to BMW’s project.
The unnamed pickup truck was designed by a team of trainees at the BMW Munich plant with the help of the carmaker’s specialized departments. It took the team ten months to come up with this fully functional, road-legal pickup truck that’s nothing less than a sheer pleasure to look at.
Based on the X7 xDrive40i with 340 hp on tap, the pickup is 100 mm longer than the regular version, but also 200 kg lighter.
At the rear, it features a loading area cladded in polished teakwood, as well as handgrips and trims strips made from 3D pressure parts. The loading bed’s length varies from 140 cm with the tailgate closed to 200 cm with it open.
That’s enough room for the team to have loaded onto the bed a BMW F 850 GS motorcycle.
"I am pleased about the synergies between BMW Group Vocational Training, Concept Vehicle Construction and Model Technology, allowing these young talents to prove their abilities with such an extraordinary project," said in a statement at the car’s presentation Milagros Caiña-Andree, BMW head of human resources.
Just like Skoda’s concept, this too is a one-off project, meaning BMW has no plans to actually turn it into a production version. As per BMW, we might however get the chance to see its pickup on the road soon, as the team who made it plans to take it for a spin to a mountains somewhere.
The unnamed pickup truck was designed by a team of trainees at the BMW Munich plant with the help of the carmaker’s specialized departments. It took the team ten months to come up with this fully functional, road-legal pickup truck that’s nothing less than a sheer pleasure to look at.
Based on the X7 xDrive40i with 340 hp on tap, the pickup is 100 mm longer than the regular version, but also 200 kg lighter.
At the rear, it features a loading area cladded in polished teakwood, as well as handgrips and trims strips made from 3D pressure parts. The loading bed’s length varies from 140 cm with the tailgate closed to 200 cm with it open.
That’s enough room for the team to have loaded onto the bed a BMW F 850 GS motorcycle.
"I am pleased about the synergies between BMW Group Vocational Training, Concept Vehicle Construction and Model Technology, allowing these young talents to prove their abilities with such an extraordinary project," said in a statement at the car’s presentation Milagros Caiña-Andree, BMW head of human resources.
Just like Skoda’s concept, this too is a one-off project, meaning BMW has no plans to actually turn it into a production version. As per BMW, we might however get the chance to see its pickup on the road soon, as the team who made it plans to take it for a spin to a mountains somewhere.
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