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BMW drops branded entertainment and signs the Pope

My title is bizarre but the news is true: BMW has donate Pope Benedict XVI a brand new SUV. Last April a German magazine questioned who was going to build the new Popemobile, and it presented a sketch based on the BMW X5 model, but I cannot tell you whether this is really the model the gave him. Pope John Paul II used to go around in a Mercedes-Benz ML 430 series Popemobile.