{"id":91139,"date":"2009-12-20T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/20\/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T00:07:00","slug":"spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91139","title":{"rendered":"Spy Video: F30 BMW 3 Series caught winter testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/spyphotos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spy Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sedans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sedan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/videos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/bmw\/\" rel=\"tag\">BMW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/20\/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing\/#continued\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"397\" border=\"1\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/bmw_spy_f30-1260954435.jpg\" alt=\"BMW F30 3 Series Mule\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>The next BMW 3-Series spied in camo &#8212; Click above to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/20\/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing\/#continued\">watch the video<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nThe next BMW 3 Series, codenamed F30, was filmed at a gas station enduring some cold weather testing. Even in its psychedelic-swirl coating, the mule shows that the 5 Series&#8217; growth was no aberration &#8212; the next 3 will be large. Watch for the man to emerge from the back seat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/20\/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing\/#continued\">in the video<\/a>. Not long ago he wouldn&#8217;t have even fit in a 3&#8217;er. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not all der neue 3 takes from its larger sibling: the elevated hoodline and what appears to be a return to unfussy lines down the side are also noted. We&#8217;ve yet to see much in the way of tech details, but the car will share its chassis with the next 1 Series, and this could be the 3 to receive the full weight of BMW&#8217;s ActiveHybrid and EfficientDynamics goodies. Whatever engine they&#8217;ve got in this prototype, though, sounds good. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/20\/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing\/#continued\">Follow the jump<\/a> for the video. <em>Hat tip to Alexander<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e90post.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=331386\">Bimmer Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/20\/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Spy Video: F30 BMW 3 Series caught winter testing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/20\/spy-video-f30-bmw-3-series-caught-winter-testing\/\">Spy Video: F30 BMW 3 Series caught winter testing<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:07:00 EST.  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Even in its psychedelic-swirl coating, the mule shows that the 5 Series&#8217; growth was no aberration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}