The BMW Leprechaun isn’t so elusive after all…

You know when you hear about something for the first time, and then you suddenly hear or see it everywhere?  For instance: the German word Böse, or Evil.  I saw someone write this on Facebook, and then the next week I heard it three times.  I can’t remember ever hearing this word before, but once I was introduced to it, it seemed to be all around me.

What I am trying to say in a roundabout way is I was wrong about the BMW prototype cars.  Since posting that blog just about a month ago, I have seen 2 more of these cars parked near our apartment.  They seem to be everywhere! 

The first sighting post-blog was by Noah.  He came back from walking the dogs and told me to look out the window.  Down the street was one of my so-called leprechauns.  What?  This has to be a crazy coincidence.  We skipped taking photos as it was cold and dark and late, and I already had proof from my prior photo shoot.

Then, this week, I came across another one.  I was taking the dogs out for their morning walk, and just around the block saw this one.  Now I realized I needed to revise my prior statements.  So I reluctantly took a picture on my phone to post here to help me eat crow. 

Noah knows I am rarely wrong.  So here is my one error for 2013. 

Update: I found this article, turns out this is the new BMW i8 electric car.

The BMW Leprechaun

Between the all the popular German car manufacturers (including BMW - Bayerische Motoren Werke or Bavarian Motor Works), the famous Autobahn, and various other car things I am clueless about, Germans are known for their love of everything auto.  While it is all pretty lost on me, I was intrigued when I heard about these rare concept cars you might chance to glimpse every so often on the Autobahn.

Basically car manufacturers will paint their next generation car models with all kinds of swirly paint meant to act as camouflage so that they can drive them in public without competitors or the media discerning what they are working on.  As you can imagine, these car manufacturers aren’t constantly driving these things on the roads– giving them an elusive quality, like a leprechaun.

As Noah and I don’t really spend too much time on the road, I was excited to spot one of these motor-leprechauns on our drive back from Dresden.  I urged Noah to rush to get closer after it passed us, but this thing was flying.  Below is the best shot I was able to get as it sped away.  I figured this would be the one picture I would get of a concept car, though it is hard to tell what it is.

So you can imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon a parked concept car just a few blocks from our apartment as we were walking the dogs.  I ran back home to grab our camera, hoping the car wouldn’t drive away in the meantime.  I quickly snapped a few shots – all the while afraid the driver would see the flash going off and run out and smash the camera.  Ok, maybe I have seen too many spy movies.   Noah told me to calm down, as I was simply taking photos in public, and I relaxed enough to pose the dogs next to the car (they weren’t impressed).

Thanks to car-people on facebook, it looks like I photographed the BMW 6 series Coupe concept car.  Though to me it will remain an elusive swirl-painted leprechaun car.