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On my way back from the Quail at this year’s festivities in Monterey, I spied a few colleagues milling around the Porsche 918 RSR. The intrepid JF Musial – Porsche’s go-to guy for video – was doing a shoot of the hybrid racer and he insisted that I crawl on all fours to see something hidden underneath the rear wing.

It was a message that read (in the most gaudy font possible), “im CAD Hat’s Passt.” JF wouldn’t give up the translation at the time, but it obvious had something to do with CAD – Computer Aided Design.

Today, Porsche’s released a brief video discussing the 918 RSR’s design from concept to production with Anthony Hatter, Porsche’s Design Manager for Sports Cars, and the hidden message flashed up on the screen. Here’s the story.

Both models – the 918 Spyder, shown in Geneva, and the RSR – were designed in CAD. But when the time came to assemble all the various bits together, the production crew kept complaining to the design team that the pieces didn’t fit. The engineer’s response: im CAD Hat’s Passt! Which translates to “it fits in CAD!”

It became a running joke between the two teams, so much so that they slapped on a graphic to commemorate the issues. Check out the full video after the jump.

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BMW’s press conference at the Paris Motor Show won’t take place until later today, but the boys from Bavaria left their Concept 6 Series Coupé hanging around on the display’s massive curved plinth.

While we couldn’t finagle our way inside to take a gander at the interior (at least not yet), the crisply styled GT clearly foreshadows the nearly-here 6 Series production model. The attractive and surprisingly large coupe borrows bits from Beijing’s Grand Coupe concept as well as the new 5 Series, particularly in the nose.

When it arrives next year, the serial 6′er will likely be powered by BMW’s range of turbocharged and naturally aspirated six-cylinder engines, with eight-cylinder motivation reserved for the next M6.

Live photos copyright (C)2010 Damon Lavrinc / AOL

[Source: BMW]

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Paris 2010: BMW Concept 6 Series Coupé looks low, flat and mean originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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