Performance Wagons

BMW M5 Touring front

Launched in March 2007, the BMW M5 Touring is almost the perfect example of a performance wagon – fitted with a high revving 5.0 litre V8 capable of producing a mighty 507 horsepower, giving a 0-60 time of 4.8 seconds and limited to 155 mph, (although BMW would remove the limiter if you asked really nicely) and combined with a paddle-shift sequential seven speed gearbox, it offered huge performance.

In the previous M5, BMW has only offered the Touring version in left hand drive, but a right hand drive version was created for this to cater for the UK, Japan and other RHD markets. The M5 has always only hinted at its performance potential, with discreet air vents, larger alloys, a squat stance and 4 exhausts being the only giveaway clues that it’s not just your average 5 series.

BMW M5 Touring rear

BMW M3 Touring Rear

The one that got away! This has to be the one car that BMW sadly has never offered – The M3 in a Touring version, having made coupe, convertible, folding hard top and sedan variants. What we have here is a very good photoshop rendering of what the current M3 might look like if BMW was ever kind enough to produce the car.

It is almost surprising that they don’t judging by the success their main domestic rivals have had with performance station wagons – Audi with the RS4 Avant and Mercedes with the C63 AMG Estate. Come on BMW, get your act together and give us an M3 wagon!

BMW M3 Touring Front