{"id":25136,"date":"2022-06-22T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=25136"},"modified":"2022-06-22T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:00:04","slug":"more-bmw-m3-touring-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=25136","title":{"rendered":"Will There be More BMW M3 Wagons in the Electrified Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s finally here, the car that so many BMW fans have been begging BMW to make for decades\u2014the BMW M3 Touring<\/a>. It\u2019s been a long time coming and, now that it\u2019s here, it isn\u2019t a disappointment. Admittedly, this M3 Touring always wear the scarlet \u201cG\u201d for its hideous grilles, but the rest of it is\u2014in the words of the legendary Bill Hader\u2014shplendid. The reception for this new BMW M3 Touring is already pretty excellent, so it begs the question: will BMW make any more?<\/p>\n

Aside from the typical grille comments (BMW made its toothy bed, now it\u2019s gotta lay in it), fans and car enthusiasts in general are pretty pumped about the idea of a 500 horsepower M3 wagon. And they should be, that\u2019s not only an incredibly exciting idea but a novel one, as there\u2019s never been an M3 wagon in history. The only real issue (design comments aside) seems to be the fact that the M3 Touring will be pretty limited. Not only will BMW sell it in smaller numbers than any other M3\/M4 model but it will only be sold in the European market. So BMW finally builds an M3 Touring, a car BMW fans across the globe have begged for, and only a small percentage of those fans will get one. As cool as the car is, that\u2019s kinda lame.<\/p>\n

However, there is some potential light at the end of the M3 tunnel. With the warm reception of this M3 Touring, it\u2019s very possible that the Bavarians decided to make another one, during the next-generation of M3. BMW execs always say the same thing when asked about why cars aren\u2019t build or why they aren\u2019t sold in a certain market: that there isn\u2019t enough market demand to justify the car. For the M3 Touring, though, I think it\u2019s safe to say the market is there, at least enough of a market to warrant a second generation.<\/p>\n

The next-generation BMW M3 will likely be the first all-electric M car in history. It\u2019s possible BWM M decides to make it a plug-in hybrid instead but, with the increasing amount of all-electric performance cars hitting the market in the next few years, that\u2019s probably a waste of time. If BMW were to make it a plug-in hybrid, it\u2019d have another six-year model cycle to use already outdated tech, while its competitors cruise by. So being a bit forward thinking and making the next-gen M3 all-electric is probably wise.<\/p>\n

If that does happen, and the next-gen M3 is a proper EV, then making different body styles will be even easier. The additional freedom of an electric car\u2019s packaging\u2014lacking the mechanical bits of an internal combustion engine car\u2014will allow BMW\u2019s designers to sort of go nuts with styling and designing a wagon will be both easier and more fun. Additionally, thanks to that added packaging bonus, just imagine the sort of cargo and passenger space you\u2019d get from a genuine from-the-ground-up EV M3 Touring? It would be killer.<\/p>\n

Of course, we don\u2019t know if BMW is thinking about a future M3 Touring. Hell, even if the brass in Munich are thinking about one, there\u2019s no guarantee such a car is made. However, judging by the incredible reception this new M3 Touring is getting, BMW would be dumb to not at least seriously consider it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s finally here, the car that so many BMW fans have been begging BMW to make for decades\u2014the BMW M3 Touring. It\u2019s been a long time coming and, now that it\u2019s here, it isn\u2019t a disappointment. Admittedly, this M3 Touring always wear the scarlet \u201cG\u201d for its hideous grilles, but the rest of it is\u2014in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25137,"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-25136","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\/25136","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=25136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}