An award-winning BMW M3 Estate has been crushed after police discovered it was a 'cut and shut' car made from at least four stolen motors.
Officers stopped the bright green M3 Estate as it travelled on Dartmouth Middleway in Birmingham on November 15 last year, just months after it took part in a car show in Germany as seen on YouTube.
Eagle-eyed traffic police first became suspicious when they realised that BMW have never made an elongated M3.
The car was also registered as a two-litre diesel but it had a three-litre petrol engine and was fitted with four exhaust pipes.
It was seized for inspection and police were stunned to discover the distinctive car was a death-trap botched together from at least four cars.
An award-winning BMW M3 Estate has been crushed by police after they discovered it was a 'cut and shut' car made from at least four stolen motors
Officers stopped the striking bright green M3 Estate as it travelled on Dartmouth Middleway in Birmingham on November 15 last year, just months after it took part in a car show in Germany
Photos showed the moment the car was dramatically crushed after it was exposed
Two estate vehicles (stock images above) had been used to create the main body and the panoramic roof, whilst a three-litre petrol engine and four exhaust pipes came from stolen BMW M3s (stock photos above)
Parts were traced to one BMW M3 stolen on September 30, 2019, from a car showroom in All Saints, Wolverhampton, plus another M3 stolen on March 20, 2018 in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
Two estate vehicles had been used to create the main body and the panoramic roof.
Police have crushed the car into a 3ft wide cube and say the owner is not suspected of being involved in the thefts of the other motors.
PC Mark Wheaver, from the Central Motorway Police Group, said: 'This should act as a striking reminder that cars may not be what they seem.
'You might think you're buying a bargain but it could be a death-trap that cost your life as well as thousands of pounds.
Parts were traced to one BMW M3 stolen on September 30, 2019, from a car showroom in All
