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BMW has chosen the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed as the venue to mark the public debut of its first M3 Touring. Not only that, this super wagon is also incorporated in the MotoGP Safety Car. Aside from the obvious changes, the late AMG C63 Estate rival gets various upgrades from the M Performance catalog. The changes start at the front where there is a chunky carbon fiber lip spoiler along with a pair of canards on each side of the bumper.
The most obvious modification, however, is at the rear where BMW has installed an optional exhaust system with double stacked ends mounted in the center of the bumper. If it looks familiar, it’s because the M3 Sedan has had this setup almost since its launch, along with the M4 Coupe. Going to the look-at-me exhaust also tweaks the carbon fiber diffuser to make the rear almost as polarized as the front.
As for the typical MotoGP Safety Car bits, the M3 Touring gets roof lights and a front flasher mounted under the kidney grille. BMW hasn’t provided images of the cabin yet, but we do know there are body-hugging Recaro front seats with four-point harnesses, emergency separators, safety beams, and a fuel extraction system.
Adorned in the famous tricolor and bearing the old-school BMW Motorsport badge to celebrate 50th M division anniversary, the MotoGP Safety Car will be climbing the Goodwood hill alongside the regular production model. It will get its first motorsport outing at Silverstone in early August during the British GP.
As far as the regular M3 Touring goes, BMW will start taking customer orders from September before hitting the spin button in production in November. Sold exclusively as a Competition model with xDrive and automatic transmission, the first M Touring in more than a decade (the M5 E61 was discontinued in 2010) will not be sold in the United States. Why? Because the standard Touring Series 3 isn’t homologated there and it would be too expensive and too late in the game to do so now.
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