Car and Driver | 2023 BMW M3 Touring Puts Undiluted M Goodness into a Rare Form

The M3 Touring is the first of its kind, but the tantalizing combo will remain off-limits to us Yanks.

Call them wagons or estate cars, it doesn’t really matter. What counts is the sad fact that a drop in global demand is speedily driving the genre that epitomizes style, space, and street cred toward extinction. Worse still, the industry has fallen concurrently into the habit of replacing every single outgoing family holdall with another anonymous SUV or crossover. Central Europe is now the last stronghold of the formerly coveted body style, which is often badged Touring, T-model, Variant, or Avant, and is typically kitted out with inspiring powertrains and lifestyle-oriented accessories.  –read more–