"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
04/02/2015 at 17:53 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
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I picked my car up from service and noticed this out behind the dealer. It's apparently an 850CSi, but I'm not sure I 100% trust the badge because they also put on what appears to be a Mercedes V12 badge.
PS9
> Textured Soy Protein
04/02/2015 at 17:58 |
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-Behind the dealer
-Loud paints scheme
-chintzy other-manufacturer badges
-Exhaust tips
Drug deal. Will be more obvious to spot once they put some rimzzzzz on it.
ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper
> Textured Soy Protein
04/02/2015 at 18:07 |
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They came in V12s too! I doubt he would have a car as unique as a 850, and then lie about the number of cylinders. At least I wouldnt.
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Textured Soy Protein
> PS9
04/02/2015 at 18:21 |
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It's a BMW 850. Of course it's being worked on. If I were to guess, it was towed there, at least judging by the factory tow hook still connected to its socket in the rear bumper.
Yellow was a factory color on these.
The wheels are 19" BMW 190s with Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires.
The exhaust looks pretty quality.
The V12 badge is pretty stupid.
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Textured Soy Protein
> ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper
04/02/2015 at 18:26 |
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He may not be lying about the cylinders, but the 850 never had a V12 badge on it. That badge is for a 90s Mercedes _600.
JGrabowMSt
> Textured Soy Protein
04/02/2015 at 18:41 |
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The owner put the V12 badge on it. Theres a local guy by me with a nearly 100% original car (he added a strut bar up front), and it has no V12 badge on the back at all. Fun fact: Aston Martin used a really similar V12 badge as well on some of their cars in the mid/late 2000's.
Never knew they came in yellow, thats kind of cool. Very showy, but kind of cool. Being the CSi, it will have a healthy 390 ponies. If it were not the CSi, it would barely have 270, on a really good day with a great tail wind.
Cool car though, very few of them were built, something in the 200s worldwide, only about 85 in 1995.
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Textured Soy Protein
> JGrabowMSt
04/02/2015 at 19:25 |
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What I mean is, I'm not sure if it's really a CSi. The individual numbers and letters in 850CSi don't quite all line up right. So I was thinking if they put a Mercedes V12 badge on it, they may also have re-badged it as a CSi.
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JGrabowMSt
> Textured Soy Protein
04/02/2015 at 20:10 |
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Go back and find out!
It looks like a CSi...it would be very expensive just to change body panels for show and then never pop the hood out of fear of ridicule from the lack of 4 additional cylinders.
Widget_Master
> Textured Soy Protein
04/02/2015 at 22:59 |
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"850 iS if you need a lift!"
—Will Smith
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> JGrabowMSt
04/02/2015 at 23:12 |
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All versions of 850 had 12 cylinders. What Atlas is saying is that it might not be a genuine CSi. It's relatively easy to swap out bumpers to make a common 850i or 850Ci look like a rare 850CSi. Even easy to make it look like an 850CSi under the hood.
That said, there's nothing stopping them from also re-badging an 840 (the 8-cylinder one) as an 850CSi.
DrScientist
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04/06/2015 at 23:02 |
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while that diffuser looks pretty spot on, the mirrors are not correct.
the csi had the split side mirrors from the e36 m3.
suspension looks a bit off too.
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> DrScientist
04/08/2015 at 23:36 |
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The google image search results seem to indicate the M3-style mirrors may have been exclusive to non-US markets. Most of the ones with US plates on them have mirrors like this one.