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Slide ruler: BMW M3 GTS takes on Austrian Alps

A charge to the roof of Europe requires a special kind of car. A car that makes the standard M3 look like a soft-edged fatso

Posted: 11 Apr 2012

Animals and cars don’t mix. Muntjacs – a doe-eyed but truly devious deer – have a habit of wandering into the roads round my way, and you really don’t want to collect one of those at 70mph. Here, 7,500ft up the Austrian Alps on the infamous Grossglockner Pass, the warning signs feature something apparently cuddlier: the marmot. Technically, the marmot is a squirrel, though it looks like the gopher that terrorised Bill Murray in the comedy classic Caddyshack. Hitting a marmot in an M3 GTS would be no laughing matter.

Story: Jason Barlow
Photos: Joe Windsor-Williams

This article was originally published in the November issue of Top Gear magazine

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