Talking about the BWM (instead of BMW) cars i do remember an April fools joke in Kenya where the newspapers printed some article that all BMW owners need to take their cars in for a check since approximately half of the cars were knock-offs from Taiwan. Since people knew about the whole 'Nika' shoe knock-offs they fell for the April fools joke hook, line and sinker. People had actually started dialing the BMW dealerships 24/7 before the papers confirmed the whole thing to be a joke.