Best April Fools' Day jokes by car companies - pictures

Porsche's Paint to Sample prank claimed customers could replicate rust on their cars

At 9am on 1 April 2021, Dacia DUSTAR - the world’s first affordable space programme - was launched.

In 2021 Volkswagen said they were rebranding their US operations as Voltswagen. After much confusion, it turned out they were not doing any such thing.

The 2018 Audi b-tron ran on honey. Of course it did.

Tyres that paint the road as you drive was MG's effort in 2018.

The Fiat Panda Hawaii edition commemorated the tenth anniversary of the TV show ‘The Inbetweeners.’

We all love a good puddle light but what if they could send messages? Skoda tried to trick us in 2018.

Aston Martin would never build a monster truck. Would they?

A little Photoshop trickery would certainly have sufficed but it’s good to know that the Honda Concept CR-V Roadster does actually exist in the real world.</p>

SEAT’s Arona Copper Edition was a car that runs on your loose change.

Are we there yet? Drown out the kids with Skoda's noise-cancelling headrest. Bliss.

McLaren got in on the act in 2017 with a feather wrap for the 570GT supercar

Under Hyundai's Click to Fly scheme customers could supposedly purchase their vehicle on Hyundai’s Click to Buy website and have it delivered in hours by a team of airborne ‘Hy-drones’.

MINI chose to target its 2016 April Fools effort at the growing ‘hipster’ market, offering us the “world premier of the MINI Hipster hatch”. The spoof car features ‘Instagram filtered windows’ and ‘a twin-deck cassette player’.

With emoji symbols now infiltrating all aspects of modern life, Honda couldn’t resist weighing-in with the Emoji numberplate. Here smilie faces and other nonsensical pics replace traditional letters and numbers.

MG thought it'd have a crack at an April Fool's joke and used that old chestnut of revealing its first invisible car. With help from Professor C. Thrue and Chief Designer Avril F'ouil.

Like Porsche, Jeep shared its April Fools via social media channels. The Wrangler Grille Grill is, well, shaped like the grille from a Wrangler!

The GYM button disables labour saving gadgets like power steering and increases the force required to operate the pedals and gearbox. Suddenly your drive to work becomes a blood vessel bursting workout.

Vauxhall announced a breakthrough for the evening entertainment industry for April Fools' 2015. The Taxi Kebabi is a 9-seater Vauxhall Vivaro Combi taxi with built-in kebab shop.

The nippy little Mazda MX-5 can now be enjoyed by the whole family - thanks to Mazda's introduction of the four-seater version on April Fool's Day 2014.

You’ve heard of the Cooper S and Cooper D MINI models, well MINI asked you to suspend disbelief to accommodate a Cooper T on April Fools’ Day 2014. It sounds plausible until you learned the car supposedly runs on tea.

SEAT came over all James Bond with its 2008 April Fools’ Day joke. A press release revealed the manufacturer had developed groundbreaking ‘electro reflective’ exterior panels.

Hyundai treated us to an unlikely modified Popemobile version of its i10 city car in on April Fools Day 2009.

When is an April Fools’ Day joke not an April Fools Day joke, When it’s a real BMW M3 pick-up.

In 2008Kia looked to capitalise on the success of the Nintendo Wii games console with a KEE_Wii concept car April Fools’ Day joke.

Kia really pushed the Photoshop boat out in generating the images of its Aero-Soul April Fools' gag in 2009.

SEAT probably put a lot of energy into its wind turbine-equipped Ibiza Ecomotive April Fools' effort in 2009.

It’s not just car manufacturers that like an April Fools’ Day prank. In 2010 Auto Windscreens revisited an old joke by announcing the world’s first prescription windscreen.

One of BMW's best April Fools jokes was the 2009 announcement of Magnetic Tow Technology. The system purported to use a magnetic field letting BMW drivers get a cheeky tow