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    Touring party!

    Jul 06, 2022 5 minutes
    by STEPHEN DOBIE

    FOR SUCH A PRACTICAL TAKE ON THE performance car, the new BMW M3 Touring has a wonderfully skunkworks vibe. ‘This is my baby,’ declares M division’s head of development, Dirk Häcker. ‘The original plan for the latest M3 didn’t have a Touring in it. But we went into our little submarine two and a half years ago and came out with this. The company didn’t task us with it, we tasked the company! We were very happy with the first reactions on social media – they confirmed we’d made the right decision.’

    Indeed, the pent-up demand for an M3 with a bigger boot has been tangible. BMW has dabbled with such prototypes in the past, chiefly an E30 that never saw the light of day and an E46 that’s occasionally

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