BMW has released teasers of the upcoming M3 CS Touring, showcasing its performance and design. The M3 CS Touring, based on the brand's CS formula, promises to be lighter and more powerful than its standard counterpart.
BMW has teased new images of the forthcoming BMW M3 CS Touring . The pictures, posted on Instagram over the weekend of the Daytona 24h, show the fast estate at the ‘Ring ahead of a full reveal later this year. The M3 CS Touring follows Munich’s usual CS formula, so it’ll almost certainly be both lighter and more powerful, with its twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre six-cylinder engine pushing out around 540bhp this time around. That’s around 10% more than standard.
0 to 62mph should take less than four seconds. Alongside the increased performance, the CS Touring will also feature a revised, more aggressive body kit – some of which can be seen in the pictures posted to Instagram. Despite the camouflage, it’s possible to make out a somehow even more aggressive front splitter and cooling intakes. You can flick through the post above for more angles.Expect to pay around £150,000 for an M3 Touring CS when it does arrive, putting just below double the price of the Competition. The new M3 Touring is the first-ever estate version of one of the brand’s most iconic M cars, which BMW boasts has all the practical features you expect of a 21st-century performance car. Well, here in the UK, we get the M3 Competition Touring only. That means a 503bhp/479lb ft turbocharged straight-six, meaning a 3.6sec 0-62mph sprint time and a limited top speed of 155mph (which can be upped to 174mph with the M Driver’s Pack). Like the regular M3 in the UK, it’s only available with an eight-speed automatic ‘box. Unlike the M3 saloon, however, the M3 Touring is only available with xDrive all-wheel drive. Rest easy, though, as the Touring still has ‘4WD Sport’ and two-wheel drive settings you can apply for maximum slidey slidey.Speaking of slidey slidey, the M3 Touring still comes with BMW’s M Drive Professional suite of technology. So, as well as pre-programmable red buttons on the steering wheel for setting your own parameters with the car’s various safety and performance tech, it will also rate your slides and clock your laps with M Drift Analyser and M Laptimer respectively. Well, other than how it looks, there are a few Touring-specific details. The M3 Touring is 85mm longer and 76mm wider than a 3-series Touring and features 19 front/20 rear mixed-size alloy wheels. The rear seats can split fold 40:20:40 (who’d have thought we’d be talking practicality when regarding an M3?!) and the boot space is rated at 500 litres with the seats up, or 1510 with the seats down. If you can’t imagine that, the M3 Touring’s project head Robert Pilsl, says that’s about as much as ‘A few crates of drinks, a grille and other party utensils. Sports stuff, equipment like a mountain bike, surf board, skis. Kids, including a pram and about 30 balloons. If necessary even a washing machine.’ Like other Touring models from BMW, the M3 Touring still features a handy separate opening for the rear window. You can also spec switches that automatically fold the rear seats down, too, as well as anti-slip rails that rise up from the boot floor to stop stuff rolling around – as long as you spec the comfort pack. The introduction of the M3 Touring shows that BMW’s also taken the opportunity to introduce other updates, including the deployment of the brand’s curved display system that first debuted in the iX electric SUV
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