BMW X3 prototype causes New York bomb scare

There's no such thing as bad publicity the saying goes. Well, BMW's head of product planning for North America has pushed that sentiment to the limit by reportedly triggering a bomb scare when he left a camouflaged prototype X3 parked outside a museum in New York.

A dog walker, clearly unused to the sight of a deliberately disguised SUV, called the police when she noticed the BMW's engine had been left running.

Coming a week after a car bomb was discovered in Times Square, the New Yorker's nervousness was understandable, and the police responded by evacuating the surrounding streets and sliding into bomb disposal gear.