REVIEW: We've waited a long time for this. We've finally driven the BMW M3 Competition Touring - the firm's highly-anticipated, 503bhp mega-estate, and it was well worth the wait 🔥
Enzo Ferrari remarked that “the client is not always right”. And as usual, the man who effectively founded a religion wasn’t wrong.
When it comes to pandering to petrolheads, reprising the CSL was the lowest of the low-hanging fruit. An easy, juicy win. And yet the M4 CSL is a collectors’ trinket. Limited to just 1000 examples, with six-figure pricing to match, it can be had only in a very narrow range of colours, with decals and no back seats. Warmed garages await.
So there’s no acceptable excuse for the long-standing absence of an M3 Touring, although at least reparations are now being made with interest. From anywhere but dead on, the new car looks superb, doesn’t it? Perhaps Touring-bespoke rear doors that properly flowed into the bulging rear wheel arches would have made the M3 Touring even more arresting at the kerbside, but even so, I’m not sure anything else in the sub-£100,000 camp looks so purposeful.
As for performance, you couldn’t want for more. From a standstill, the M3 Touring takes roughly the same time to reach 62mph as does the 997 generation of Porsche’s 911 GT2 RS. Yes, a mid-size estate punching just as hard as a bona fide – and unhinged – supercar barely a decade old. Roll-on acceleration and low-rev grunt are no less savage, although in the sportier engine modes, the car’s synthesised growl becomes wearing. The S58 is mighty, but it’s no atmo S54, studio tweaks or not.
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