{"id":85838,"date":"2026-06-23T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=85838"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:45:52","slug":"2027-bmw-i3-touring-na1-lineup-specs-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=85838","title":{"rendered":"2027 BMW i3 Touring (NA1): The Neue Klasse Wagon, Its Lineup, and Everything We Know So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"post-summary-wrap\">\n<h3 class=\"post-summary-title\">Article Summary<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"post-summary-list\">\n<li>BMW confirmed the i3 Touring at the i3 sedan&#8217;s March 18 premiere and will build it in Munich, with production unlikely before late 2027.<\/li>\n<li>The lineup is expected to mirror the sedan&#8217;s i3 30, i3 40, i3 50, and i3 M60 xDrive trims, with the i3 50 confirmed at 463 hp and 906+ km WLTP range.<\/li>\n<li>The i5 Touring proves BMW won&#8217;t shrink the trunk for going electric, putting the i3 Touring&#8217;s cargo space in line with the current 3 Series wagon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>At the very end of the i3 sedan\u2019s world premiere on March 18, former BMW CEO Oliver Zipse let a shadowy silhouette flash across the screen behind him. BMW had just confirmed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2026\/05\/13\/bmw-teases-new-3-series-touring-explains-why-the-wagon-lives-on\/\">3 Series Touring isn\u2019t going away<\/a>, and that its first fully electric version is coming.<\/p>\n<p>That car is the BMW i3 Touring, internally coded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2026\/04\/02\/bmw-i3-touring-munich-production-confirmed\/\">NA1<\/a>. It\u2019s the practical sibling to the NA0 sedan that just went on sale in Europe, and it\u2019s shaping up to be the car a specific kind of buyer has been waiting years for: someone who wants the Neue Klasse\u2019s range, charging speed, and software, but refuses to give up a wagon\u2019s load floor to get it.<\/p>\n<h2>Coming in 2027<\/h2>\n<p>The i3 sedan enters series production in Munich this August, with European deliveries following this fall and the US getting its first cars in 2027. The Touring shares that production line, but BMW has only said it won\u2019t start rolling off the line before the second half of 2027 \u201cat the earliest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a another story behind the timing, too. Munich is in the middle of converting into one of BMW\u2019s first fully EV-dedicated plants, a transition that completes by the end of 2027. That\u2019s also why a combustion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2023\/09\/12\/2027-bmw-3-series-g50-g51-release-date-specs-and-features\/\">3 Series Touring (G51)<\/a> won\u2019t be built there, but rather in Dingolfing and maybe Mexico. The historic factory that\u2019s spent decades building 3 Series wagons with engines under the hood is about to stop doing that entirely, and the i3 Touring is one of the cars taking its place.<\/p>\n<h2>Borrowing The Sedan\u2019s Face, Keeping The Wagon\u2019s Silhouette<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_511753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-511753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bmw-i3-touring-renderings-00.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-511753\" title=\"BMW I3 TOURING RENDERINGS 00\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bmw-i3-touring-renderings-00-830x467.jpg\" alt=\"BMW I3 TOURING RENDERINGS 00\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bmw-i3-touring-renderings-00-830x467.jpg 830w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bmw-i3-touring-renderings-00-1820x1024.jpg 1820w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bmw-i3-touring-renderings-00-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bmw-i3-touring-renderings-00-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.bmwblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bmw-i3-touring-renderings-00.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-511753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering by Theottle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nobody outside Munich has seen a real i3 Touring yet, but the teaser BMW showed wasn\u2019t vague enough to leave much guesswork. Rendering artists all converge on the same read: the Touring carries the sedan\u2019s design wholesale up to the B-pillar, then finishes everything behind that as a proper long-roof wagon.<\/p>\n<p>That means the same four-eye face, the same illuminated kidney treatment without a physical surround, and the same shark-nose front end. Where it diverges is the rear, and that\u2019s the part actually worth caring about. The slim, full-width taillight graphic from the sedan carries over to the tailgate, but the roofline drops into the kind of near-vertical rear end every 3 Series Touring since the E30 has used, the better to load a stroller or a dog crate without folding yourself in half.<\/p>\n<h2>The Lineup: i3 30, i3 40, i3 50, and i3 M60<\/h2>\n<p>The Touring is expected to launch with the same trim structure BMW is building for the sedan, just spread across a wagon body:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>i3 30<\/strong> \u2014 the entry point, almost certainly single-motor and rear-wheel drive with the smallest of the available battery packs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>i3 40<\/strong> \u2014 a step up in battery size and probably the version most buyers would want due to price.<\/li>\n<li><strong>i3 50<\/strong> \u2014 the volume model, and the one we actually have hard numbers for, because they come straight from the sedan. BMW\u2019s i3 50 xDrive uses two motors producing 463 hp and 645 Nm of torque, a 108.7-kWh net battery, and 400 kW peak DC charging good for a 10-80% top-up in 21 minutes. The sedan is rated at 906 km WLTP in First Edition trim and 912 km in standard form. So expect similar ratings and figures for the touring model as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>i3 M60 xDrive<\/strong> \u2014 the performance flagship, rumored at around 630 hp, sitting at the top of the range as a preview of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwblog.com\/2026\/05\/26\/bmw-m3-electric-za0-marketing-ferrari-luce-strategy\/\">electric M3 (ZA0)<\/a> still to come. The sedan version is expected to enter production around March 2027, so the Touring\u2019s M60 is realistically a 2027-or-later proposition either way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of this is officially priced yet. For reference, the sedan\u2019s i3 50 xDrive starts at \u20ac65,900 in Germany once the First Edition launch run wraps up, undercutting the equivalent iX3 50 xDrive by nearly \u20ac9,000. Expect the Touring to land close to that figure plus whatever BMW\u2019s usual wagon premium ends up being, though nobody outside Munich has confirmed a number yet.<\/p>\n<h2>BMW Already Proved It Won\u2019t Shrink The Trunk<\/h2>\n<p>The most reassuring data point for anyone cross-shopping an estate doesn\u2019t come from the i3 at all. It comes from the i5 Touring, which carries 570 liters of cargo space with the rear seats up and 1,700 liters folded, identical to the combustion-powered 5 Series Touring it shares a body with. BMW didn\u2019t quietly trim the i5\u2019s trunk to make room for batteries, and there\u2019s no reason to expect a different approach here. The current 3 Series Touring (G21) holds 500 liters up and 1,510 liters folded, which is the realistic ballpark for the i3 Touring once it arrives. The sedan\u2019s 420-liter trunk and tiny 31-liter frunk simply aren\u2019t the relevant comparison for anyone actually cross-shopping a wagon.<\/p>\n<h2>Who Is The Buyer For The i3 Touring?<\/h2>\n<p>The i3 Touring exists for a buyer the sedan can\u2019t fully serve: someone sold on Neue Klasse\u2019s range and charging numbers but unwilling to trade away a flat load floor to get them. It\u2019s also, by accident or design, the clearest signal yet that BMW isn\u2019t ready to let the Touring nameplate die with the combustion engine, even as Munich shuts the door on building another gas-powered one. It\u2019s also for people who love wagons because they\u2019re simply cool.<\/p>\n<p>[Renderings by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theottle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@theottle<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary BMW confirmed the i3 Touring at the i3 sedan&#8217;s March 18 premiere and will build it in Munich, with production unlikely before late 2027. The lineup is expected to mirror the sedan&#8217;s i3 30, i3 40, i3 50, and i3 M60 xDrive trims, with the i3 50 confirmed at 463 hp and 906+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85839,"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-85838","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\/85838","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}