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At the risk of some unseemly self-congratulation, this is why you didn’t catch the hot Cayman Shooting Brake rumor here at TTAC: it’s a fake. The New York Times reveals that the hoax was perpetrated by a Top Gear USA summer intern using 3-D graphics software and a lot of spare time. And the job was well enough done to make a number of well-known car blogs look a bit foolish. Enthusiasts are such suckers!
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Lucky them, just have them ask BMW how well those sell.
That would have been an awkward design with the engine in the middle. Kudos to the talented intern who managed to apply the Porsche design language to this fake well enough to fool Autoblog.
Its a shame Top Gear US is being shut down for good, but those guys just ensured themselves easy employment with another firm with this work.
But it would be a better world if there were a Cayman shooting brake, so there’s no reason for your self-congratulations to get too effusive.
good thing they don’t allow Canadians to see the video.
It reminds me a bit of the Jaguar hearse “conversion” in the movie Harold and Maude.
I guess its somewhat believable since they’ve built a four door Porsche, and this fake brake is better looking.
@26theone :
Lucky them, just have them ask BMW how well those sell.
The 1-series hatch sells like hotcakes, and the 3-door version is as “shooting brake” as it gets.
I’m not sure why versus some of the other stuff that gets posted on the internet, but I knew that was a fake when I first saw it. Nice photochop though.