My girlfriend said you could never make a car out of spaghetti, but you should have seen her face when this BMW i3 drove pasta…
Stupid puns aside, the “Spaghetti Car” is an outrageously wrapped i3 made by BMW that’s due to feature at this year’s Rencontres d’Arles Festival of Photography in France this summer.
A collaboration between BMW France and Toilet Paper, a bi-annual avant garde art publication founded by artist Maurizio Cattelan, the Spaghetti Car is part of the publication’s exhibition.
Avant garde art piece
BMW has a long history of collaborating with the art world, most famously with its series of Art Cars and with exclusive one-offs like the recently unveiled i8 Futurism Edition.
However, the Spaghetti Car is not an official Art Car and BMW has said that it’s due to be destroyed once the festival has wrapped up, something we don’t necessarily blame the manufacturer for.
The notoriously odd Cattelan said: “This is by far the best Spaghetti Car I have tasted! I have been disappointed in my efforts to make a good spaghetti sauce since I started cooking 37 years ago.”
Anybody else feel hungry...?
Right. Luckily, BMW France’s president Serge Naudin offered a slightly more lucid explanation, saying: “The long-term cultural commitment of BMW France evolves around photography.”
“It comes natural to count us among the admirers of Maurizio Cattelan,” he added. “As for creating ‘art’, we love what he does and we love it just as much when he does not do anything.”
We doubt we'll be getting any of our cars wrapped like that anytime soon, but is it just us or does the Spaghetti i3 make you feel slightly peckish…?
