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Originally Posted by The HACK
BMW isn't parading these vehicles out for all to see. They have to put some miles on the car in a variety of real life conditions in order to work out all the bugs.
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I believe he knows that - he does not appear to be disputing whether the test cars were really serving any purpose being out in the wild. Rather, he is being pedantic about the definition of the term "spy shot". He's saying that these cars are designed to be driven in public, hence the camouflage, so pictures of them aren't really
spy photos at all - they're just photos.
OP, you have a reasonable point in the context of strict lingual application of terms, but its not really a grammar or linguistics forum. PM me if you want me to move this to the Off Topic forum where the discussion will more than likely take a direction you do not desire it. Otherwise - point made sir, thank you.