Answer: BMW X6 M. (It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a a high-performance SUV truck-coupe-type-thing with a bitchin' rear differential!) Bet the up-skirt on your Camry don't look like that, buddy boy.

We'll be honest here, we're too busy eyeballing supercharged Vegas and high-rise F150s to really pay much attention to the Infiniti M right now, but the it was revealed virtually at Pebble Beach earlier today, and in pictures here. It'll get a 3.7 liter V6 or a stout 5.6 liter V8 with "more than 400 HP," there's a lot of filler verbiage in the press release about technology and elegance and materials, but all you really need to know is there will be a diesel available in Europe and not in the US. Take that America.

Apparently Infiniti wants to project an image of advanced technology with its reveal of the latest generation of its M sedan as they'll be using some techno-geekery to show off their latest car in a virtual sense. Using an array of linked projectors beaming images of the car onto a dimensionally accurate 3D foam model, they'll be revealing the new M in a superfluous display of technology. Seems like maybe a next best option after the real deal didn't get finished in time.

In any case, it'll be the only confirmed showing of the next generation car, as we don't know specifically which show it'll be presented at formally, but the Frankfurt Motor Show is a good bet.

Jason reports hearing the whine of a turbocharger coming from the X6 M, which backs up what we’ve been told: it’ll use a tuned version of the twin-turbo 4.4-liter V8 already in use under the BMW X6’s hood. This engine already makes 400 HP and 450 Lb-Ft of torque, so expect the M version to up both numbers to over 500.

Head on over to Fast Lane Daily to see more photos and Jason’s report.

It’s the latter, called Dynamic Performance Control that we’re most interested in. The system is capable of parsing torque both front to rear and side-to-side, directing it to an individual tire even. When we tested the X6 we found that it worked like stability control, but enhanced, rather than reduced performance. For the X6 M, it’s been tweaked to “reduce understeer” which we can only assume increased oversteer. That’s a good thing, we found the V8-engined BMW X6 to be considerably more nose heavy than its 6-cylinder sibling, resulting in a slightly ponderous driving experience.

The other big addition is a high-power version of the 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8. No power figures yet, but figure on a healthy increase over the stock unit’s 400 HP, 450 Lb-Ft rating. We don’t think it’s optimistic to expect both numbers to be over 500. It’s also rumored that this engine could be used in the next M5.

It’s fun to watch the ways in which different manufacturers are learning to manipulate the scary new world of the Internet. Porsche’s attempt to build buzz around the Porsche Panamera resulted in a fleet of lightly disguised cars being driven around city centers in the hopes of fan boy photos. BMW seems to want to take the content directly to viewers, using BMW Web TV to promote carefully formulated pieces of propaganda in advance of new product launches. Both are certainly more fun than paying spy photographers to take shots of “secret” prototypes. [via BMW Web TV]

Given the lack of badges, the proximity and the wheels we're guessing that this is an early M3 convertible given to the folks at AC Schnitzer in advance to pretune for when the M3 convertible makes an official debut. (h/t Jason from Bimmerpost.com) [M3Post]