- Despite the BMW looks, this VW-based sedan is powered by a 4-cylinder engine.
- Up front, it wears four oversized blacked-out kidney grilles from the G80 M3.
- Inside, the cabin remains largely unchanged from the standard VW Lamando L.
Remember that ludicrous 10-foot-wide VW Lamando L that surfaced in China four years back? Well, that same machine is still around, except someone has reworked it to impersonate a G80 BMW M3, a creation its builders have named the M3².
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Because the car is built on that aging Lamando, nobody had to sacrifice a perfectly good M3 to create this monstrosity. Even so, it faithfully recreates some of the BMW’s most recognizable details, including what appear to be legitimate M3 headlights, or at the very least replicas which look pretty much identical to the real thing.
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The grille, or grilles, are no doubt the standout. The coffin-shaped kidney grilles of the G80 M3 are rather infamous, and for this build, two additional grilles have been added, giving the wide M3 the kind of face that only a mother could love.
The build’s true identity as a VW becomes a little more obvious from the rear, as the overall shape of the roof and tailgate is similar to that of a regular Lamando. Nevertheless, BMW M3-inspired taillights have been added to make the car look a little more legitimate.
A VW Underneath
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Nothing inside says BMW. The cabin matches a run-of-the-mill Lamando almost exactly, though the VW roundel on the steering wheel has been taped over. Additionally, the dashboard gains a new wide screen aimed squarely at the front passenger.
The un-BMW theme carries straight through to the powertrain. Where the G80 M3 runs a furious 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged straight-six, this one keeps the VW’s original 1.4-liter four. Its weight is anyone’s guess, though in Lamando form the sedan could reportedly haul as many as 10 people. The interior has since been gutted and fitted with beanbags in place of proper seats, so it can probably still fit a group of ten in comfort.
