Will the warm glow continue over six months?
has been one of the cars of the last year. Even as estate cars generally fall from favour, adding a larger boot to M division’s icon seems to have fired people with frothy passion and workdays whiled away on BMW’s configurator. I fully bought into the hype, summing up the M3 Touring as ‘the ultimate one-car garage’, and now I’m putting that to the test as the very lucky custodian of this one.
Then again, the M3 has always been about driving thrills with a side order of practicality – need more space than a 911? M3! – so dialling up usability without subtracting thrills is entirely logical for this G81 generation. The Touring twist is that it comes only – not optionally – with M xDrive all-wheel drive. And there’s no carbonfibre roof. The suspension has been tuned for a car that – at 1865kg – weighs 85kg more than an M xDrive saloon and can carry more.
Our test car had already done over 6000 miles when I got the keys, but other than a couple of tiny blemishes on the bonnet it looks and drives like new.
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