{"id":13772,"date":"2021-11-19T21:05:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T02:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/auto\/?p=13772"},"modified":"2021-11-19T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T02:05:50","slug":"bmw-m3-touring-not-coming-to-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=13772","title":{"rendered":"This is why the BMW M3 Touring won’t come to United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

When BMW officially announced the upcoming M3 Touring<\/a>, the enthusiast community rejoiced. And for good reason, it was a joyous occasion, as the decades of wishes of so many enthusiasts had come finally come true. However, the American enthusiast market suffered a bit of a blow, as BMW also announced the M3 Touring would stay east of the Atlantic.\u00a0American enthusiasts were naturally upset, as dreams of owning a proper BMW M3 Touring was given but immediately taken away. BMW has its reasons, though, and they\u2019re legitimate ones. They\u2019ll mean little to the frustrated Americans with the means and willingness to buy an M3 Touring, but they\u2019re legitimate reasons nevertheless.<\/p>\n

During a recent chat with BMW North America \u00a0representatives, we learned that BMW North American branch took notice of the immense enthusiast response to the M3 Touring and, together with BMW M, revisited the idea of bringing it to the U.S. market. \u201cWe revisited whether the car could be homologated for the U.S. market, but unfortunately, it was found to be cost prohibitive,\u201d a BMW spokesperson told us.<\/p>\n

There is more to the story though. Many years back, BMW made the decision to stop selling Sports Wagons (Touring models) in the United States at all. Because crash regulations for the U.S. are different than in Europe, changes need to be made to homologate tourings for the US market. Of course, that costs a lot of money, especially for crash testing purposes. Therefore, we believe that BMW wasn\u2019t about to do that for another market, especially if the return wasn\u2019t worth the investment.<\/p>\n