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<p>BMW unveiled the M3 Touring today, surprising almost everyone, as no one outside the company actually knew it was planning to build a wagon version of the car. Rumors of dust had been circulating for about a month since we were living in the information age, but it would be a new trick for the M3.</p>
<p>Of course, we’ll think about it, because people who write about cars tend to have funny cars flying under the radar. Any advantage you can give yourself against the waiting eyes of highway patrol are always welcome, and there’s just something about a fast wagon that makes you feel unique <span class=)
Teasing on Wednesday, the model appeared on BMW M’s Instagram account with the expression “mic drop”, confirming that the brand feels it has already triumphed simply by bringing the wagon to market. However, exactly which one brands can circle you when the time comes.
Performance-focused wagons (outbuildings) remain isolated on the European market, despite Americans tending to enjoy more interior volume than their global contemporaries.
The United States had a long, healthy run with the station wagon, but it began to lose its acceptability in the 1980s when it was satirized in films such as Ghostbusters en Holiday as passed. Even if some of us thinking that the Ecto 1 the Batmobile competes in terms of open coolness, the Griswold Family Truckster was a real hunk of madness – contain everything that Americans hate about wagons and the experience of buying cars for comic effect. Even its spiritual successor, the minivan, was forced to put its best days behind it, as crossovers achieved the dominance of the market as the family-excursion car of the day.
That’s a long windy way of saying that the M3 Touring may not make it out of Europe. Canadians and Americans just do not buy them in the kind of volumes they guarantee they will ship abroad, although the specialty of the car does offer a bit of hope.
BMW told us that the M3 Touring is about two years away from completing its development cycle – indicating that they are just starting to work on it. But the brand says they should start appearing on public roads as test mules soon enough, and will no doubt spend some of that time on the Nürburgring to make sure it’s a real M.
Expect a familiar six-twin turbo right-hand six producing about 500 horsepower (depending on trim) and giant kidney grids. Based on the teaser, it also looks like the wagon seems to get a new bumper and a reasonably aggressive rear stop diffuser.
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