{"id":22509,"date":"2022-05-18T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22509"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:00:32","slug":"spied-bmw-m3-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=22509","title":{"rendered":"SPIED: BMW M3 CS Seen in the Wild Around the N\u00fcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the moment, there are two BMWs taking up most of the brand\u2019s internet bandwidth\u2013the BMW M3 Touring<\/a> and the M4 CSL<\/a>. For good reason, too, both cars are incredibly exciting, kick-ass performance cars. However, there\u2019s another Bimmer that\u2019s flying a bit under the radar but could actually be the best of them all\u2013the BMW M3 CS\u2013and it was just caught testing outside the N\u00fcrburgring. (We don\u2019t own the spy photos but they can be seen here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

These photos show off a mostly production-ready BMW M3 CS<\/a>, with minimal camouflage, testing on public roads outside the \u2018Ring. In the new photos, you can see that the M3 CS will have the same face and front end as the M4 CSL. How can you see that for sure? Because they\u2019re parked next to each other in one of the pics and their front ends are identical. That means they\u2019ll both get the same funky grille insert, the same front air intakes, and even the same lip spoiler.<\/p>\n

Out back, you\u2019ll notice some camo on what looks to be a small ducktail spoiler on the trunk lid. It\u2019s the same sort of spoiler we\u2019ve seen on every other BMW CS model so far, including both the recent M2 CS and M5 CS. So it isn\u2019t particularly surprising.<\/p>\n

One interesting thing to note, though, is the use of camo on the rear windows. This isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019ve seen this and we\u2019ve speculated in the past as to why BMW is covering up the rear windows. Previously, my first two guesses were that it was done to hide either a lightweight glass replacement, such as Perspex, or to hide the back seats, which were potentially the same sort of sport buckets found in the M5 CS. I had leaned toward the latter, as that seemed most likely, but no longer.<\/p>\n

These photos show off the rear headrests through the back window and they look to be normal BMW rear seat headrests, so this test car doesn\u2019t seem to have any unusual rear seat arrangement. So the only other reason I can think for camouflaging the rear windows is that they\u2019re made of Perspex, or something similar, and BMW wanted to hide it. Though, I could also be wrong, as my wife likes to remind me, I often am.<\/p>\n

[Source: Motor1<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the moment, there are two BMWs taking up most of the brand\u2019s internet bandwidth\u2013the BMW M3 Touring and the M4 CSL. For good reason, too, both cars are incredibly exciting, kick-ass performance cars. However, there\u2019s another Bimmer that\u2019s flying a bit under the radar but could actually be the best of them all\u2013the BMW […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}