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BMW M GmbH start testritten met allereerste BMW M3 Touring.
Wed Aug 12 18:01:00 CEST 2020 Persmap
BMW M GmbH breidt voor het eerst het modellenaanbod uit in de premium middenklasse met de BMW M3 Touring. Op dit moment voltrekken zich de tests met een prototype bij het ontwikkelingscentrum in Garching vlakbij München. Daarna volgen circuittests op de Nordschleife van de Nürburgring. Bijgaand het volledige, Engelstalige persbericht.
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BMW M GmbH breidt voor het eerst het modellenaanbod uit in de
premium middenklasse met de BMW M3 Touring. Op dit moment voltrekken
zich de tests met een prototype bij het ontwikkelingscentrum in
Garching vlakbij München. Daarna volgen circuittests op de
Nordschleife van de Nürburgring.
Een high-performance sportauto met een extra grote en
zeer variabele bagageruimte: een wens die binnenkort werkelijkheid zal
worden. Een paar weken voor de wereldpremière van de volledig nieuwe
BMW M3 Sedan is duidelijk dat wordt gewerkt aan een ongeëvenaarde
modeldiversiteit bij de high-performance middenklasse BMW M modellen.
Samen met de volledig nieuwe BMW M4 Coupé beleeft de nieuwe BMW M3
Sedan in september 2020 zijn wereldpremière. Ook is het geen geheim
dat volgend jaar de nieuwe BMW M4 Cabrio zal volgen. Maar wie oplet
zal binnenkort ook een glimp kunnen opvangen van het prototype voor
een nieuw high-performance model. In Garching, vlakbij BMW M GmbH
thuisbasis München, wordt hard gewerkt aan het vervullen van een
volgende droom. Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis van BMW M GmbH zal
het modellenaanbod worden uitgebreid met een BMW M3 Touring. Bijgaand
het volledige, Engelstalige persbericht.
Munich. How about an extra-large and highly variable
luggage compartment in a high-performance sports car? What is
presently still a rhetorical question will soon become a concrete
offer. A few weeks prior to the world premiere of the all-new
BMW M3 Sedan, there are increasing signs of unparalleled model
diversity in the range of premium mid-range BMW M automobiles.
Together with the all-new BMW M4 Coupe, the new BMW M3 Sedan will be
celebrating its world premiere in September 2020. It is also no secret
that the new edition of the BMW M4 Convertible is to follow next year.
However, attentive observers will soon be able to catch a glimpse of
the prototype of a new high-performance automobile. In Garching near
Munich, home of the BMW M GmbH, work is being carried out on a further
dream-come-true: For the first time in the history of the BMW M GmbH,
the model range will be complemented by a BMW M3 Touring.
M-specific performance combined with an increase in available
space and the intelligent functionality of a Touring model – this was
previously reserved exclusively for the BMW M5. Both in its second
generation in 1992 and in its fourth in 2007, the high-performance
business sedan was accompanied by a Touring. This is not the first
time both the M community and developers at the BMW M GmbH have been
fascinated by idea of transferring this vehicle concept to the BMW M3.
Exactly 20 years ago, a corresponding prototype was launched based on
the third generation of the BMW M3. The then aim of proving that the
high flexibility and seamless integration of high-performance sports
cars with specific body features could be incorporated into the BMW M3
manufacturing process was achieved. In the sixth generation of the BMW
M3, it will not end with mere theoretical considerations and
product-technical test series.
The 6-cylinder M TwinPower turbo engine beneath the bonnet has
been set. 5 doors and a highly variable luggage compartment are
precisely what have been long awaited by fans of this model. As the
fourth model variant, the BMW M3 Touring fulfils the hopes of all
those who wish to take the M-specific interplay of racing-oriented
performance and everyday suitability to the extreme. Never before has
a premium mid-range class estate car offered so much driving fun and
precision. Nor was there ever more functional utility available in a
thoroughbred sports car.
Further speculation on engine and performance is quite welcome.
But wide axles, conspicuously large front air intakes and four exhaust
tailpipes at the rear leave no doubt that the iconic M DNA will be
fully perceptible despite the car’s new body design.
The first BMW M3 Touring is still in the early stage of its
approx. two-year series development process. As in the case of other
BMW M high-performance sports cars, the following also applies to the
BMW M3 Touring: Whenever the prototype has been given the go-ahead for
test drives on public roads, it means that the decisive step towards
series maturity has been taken. Not only there will it soon be
regularly sighted. As with all other BMW M models, the intensive
testing and tuning process for the BMW M3 Touring will take place on
the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, because the first BMW M3 Touring
is, after all, first and foremost a BMW M3.