VIDEO: BMW Takes You To Death Valley To See How It Tests

Although it has been gaining more notoriety in recent years thanks to plenty of spy photography, automotive testing use to be relatively hush hush. But now we have a pretty good idea of what goes on. Kinda.

We see vehicles towing objects, being put through extreme climate conditions -- hot and cold -- all the while wearing plenty of camouflage. Now it seems certain locations have become hotbeds for manufacturers. Take, for example, the Nurburgring or say Switzerland for the cold stuff.

But I think it's safe to say that a lot of people enjoy seeing cars being beaten to hell in Death Valley. It probably has a lot to do with the name.

**To take a peek behind the scenes, BMW recently posted this video briefly giving us a taste of the Valley


BMW conducts both extreme cold and extreme heat testing of all its prototype vehicles as part of each model's development process. A lot of the extreme heat testing is performed in US' infamous Death Valley, which regularly reaches 120-130F in the summer (with a record of 134F in 1913, the second hottest temperature ever recorded)...