In 1982, Ernst Fuchs, Viennese artist and sculptor, started several new trends in BMW Art Cars. First, Fuchs was the first non-American to paint an Art Car. And second, Fuchs' Art Car was the first one that was not intended for racing. Fuchs' "canvas" was an ordinary street 635 CSi. "My painting expresses various experiences, fears, desires, and dreams, but also my own free style of aesthetic, artistic design."
Fuchs calls his Art Car "Firefox on Harehunt." The artist says, "It represents a hare racing across a motorway at night and leaping over a burning car--the primeval fear and bold dream of surmounting a dimension in which we live." The Fuchs car is a static display and has never been driven.