2023 BMW M3 Touring walkaround review

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Is this the baddest looking wagon on the road? Paul Maric checks out the 2023 BMW M3 Touring in person to see just how much work has gone in to creating a family-friendly M Sport wagon. Would you buy this over a BMW X3 M Competition?  BMW i7 walkaround review: https://youtu.be/3gJkcGYF_Nw  More BMW content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/bmw More BMW 3 Series content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/bmw/3-series  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:30 Exterior: 00:37 Interior: 05:32 Under the bonnet: 06:28 Outro: 07:14  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #bmw #m3 #m3touring

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul, so this is the BMW M3 Touring.

00:03 It was recently revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

00:06 Today I'm gonna take you on a bit of a walk around

00:08 and give you my reaction to it,

00:09 'cause we just drove the M4 competition

00:12 and I was seriously blown away by that.

00:14 So to think that you can now get basically that,

00:17 but in a station wagon for all you family people out there,

00:20 I think is pretty exciting.

00:21 So let's settle up and take it for a static walk around.

00:25 Now, if you haven't done so already,

00:26 please subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon.

00:28 And by the way, today we're looking at the i7 as well.

00:31 So you can see that video down in the description below,

00:35 but let's get started with this.

00:36 Now let's quickly talk about pricing.

00:39 I don't know what the pricing is gonna be,

00:41 but it will be more expensive than the sedan version of this

00:44 and given the amount of engineering that's gone into it,

00:46 it could be a bit of a big step there,

00:48 but we'll wait and see when they finally do announce pricing.

00:51 And in terms of when it's going to arrive,

00:53 well, this enters production in November,

00:55 and that means that hopefully it'll be in Australia

00:58 late this year, early next year.

00:59 We'll see how we go.

01:00 Now on the design front, down the front here,

01:02 it looks pretty much the same as the M3 sedan.

01:05 So you've got that big kidney grill there.

01:06 This one has the optional carbon package.

01:08 So air runs through there to the brakes

01:10 and additional cooling for the engine.

01:12 Look, the designer, I know it's been a bit controversial,

01:14 but it really does look good in person,

01:17 and especially here in this colour.

01:18 So this is like a matte black,

01:20 and it just makes the car look so incredibly sinister.

01:23 And I'll tell you why this colour works well for the roof

01:25 when we check that out.

01:26 But yeah, this really sort of translates nicely to the rear

01:29 as it comes along the back there.

01:31 So come around to the wheels,

01:32 I'll show you what these look like.

01:34 So this has like a piano black finish on the wheels.

01:36 The badge on the front and also here on the caps

01:39 is to commemorate the BMW M anniversary.

01:42 And you can basically just get a standard badge

01:45 if you don't want this, but I think this looks pretty cool.

01:47 A 380 mil rotor there, it's cross drilled.

01:50 You've got black brake calipers, six piston caliper.

01:53 This can be different colours as well,

01:54 so you don't have to go black if you don't want to,

01:56 but I think the black works really well here,

01:58 especially if you're getting the black paint work on the car.

02:01 M3 competition, because this will be only sold

02:04 as an M3 competition in touring spec.

02:06 I love these side skirts here, have a look at this.

02:08 They run all the way down the side of the car there.

02:10 It's like a high gloss piano black finish,

02:12 and it really just gives that an aggressive taper

02:14 as the door comes down there.

02:16 Carbon package here on the mirror.

02:18 Again, this car's got that optionally fitted,

02:20 but I do love the way here with the M cars,

02:22 how it sits separate to the body up that top section there.

02:25 It's probably for a very minor aero gain,

02:27 but I think it looks really cool.

02:29 So I mentioned the interaction of the paint here

02:31 with the roof.

02:32 So this doesn't get a carbon roof like you do

02:34 in the other versions of this car that aren't the touring,

02:37 but the way they've staggered this is great

02:38 because this comes standard with a high gloss black finish,

02:41 and depending on which colour you go,

02:43 it may not look all that good,

02:44 but when you do go the frozen,

02:45 it'll match up the top there too.

02:47 So it really just cuts a beautiful sleek line.

02:50 And of course, being the touring, have a look at this.

02:52 As you get to the back,

02:53 you've got these flared arches here

02:55 with a little bit of that extra protection on the side there.

02:58 The brakes at the rear measure 370 mil.

03:00 They're also cross drilled.

03:02 That is a single piston caliper.

03:03 They're also on a 20 inch wheel at the back there.

03:06 In terms of the tyre size,

03:07 actually, let's have a sticky bit down here.

03:09 So 285 wide at the rear.

03:11 Given this is all wheel drive,

03:12 traction should be pretty good,

03:14 but again, you can just flick it into rear wheel drive mode

03:16 to have some proper fun with it.

03:17 Come around to the back,

03:18 I think this is the bit everyone

03:19 is probably the most excited about.

03:21 So to me, this is the thing that makes it so appealing.

03:23 I love a good wagon,

03:24 but then when you make it a performance wagon,

03:27 this really sort of takes it to the next level.

03:29 And it takes all the good things

03:30 about the 3 Series Touring

03:32 and just obviously adds all those performance elements.

03:34 So let's start at the top.

03:36 You've got a,

03:37 I guess it kind of looks like a shark fin aerial.

03:39 We've got an aerial up there that resembles that.

03:41 This gurney here from 120 Ks an hour,

03:44 you can feel the effects of that.

03:46 So that is to add extra downforce to the rear.

03:48 So when you think about these as a performance car,

03:52 you really need to have as much downforce

03:54 on the rear as you can,

03:55 especially because even as an all wheel drive,

03:57 it is rear bias.

03:58 So you really want to have it hunkering down

04:00 as much as humanly possible.

04:02 Tail lights here, LED, frosted finish,

04:04 they look sensational.

04:06 And then as you go further down the bottom,

04:07 this car has that carbon diffuser on it

04:09 with these four enormous cannons.

04:12 The other vehicles in this M range

04:14 are actually available with an M performance exhaust

04:17 that kind of groups all four exhausts in the center here.

04:19 And that looks just over the top,

04:21 but pretty cool in my opinion.

04:23 I don't know if that'll be offered here,

04:24 but if it does, that's going to stand out really nicely.

04:27 The other cool features on the back here

04:28 are the ability to open the glass again,

04:30 just like a normal three series Touring.

04:32 And then if you're done with that,

04:33 you can go straight into opening the boot.

04:36 Look at that.

04:37 So I actually learned a couple of interesting things today.

04:39 So whenever we, I guess, review these cars,

04:42 I've always wondered what the little hole

04:44 next to the grab handle up the top there does.

04:46 It's actually to hold that cargo blind up.

04:49 So you have kind of like a barrier there.

04:51 And the other thing I learned as well

04:52 is these rubber grips here are actually motorized.

04:55 So if you look under here,

04:57 these motors push those rubber grips up

04:59 when the car's running

05:00 and that stops everything sliding forward.

05:02 And if you take this to a track day

05:04 and you forget to take your luggage or shopping out,

05:06 should hopefully hold it in position.

05:08 But you can see here that there really isn't

05:10 a great deal of compromise in terms of storage,

05:13 especially when you consider that

05:15 they've had to strengthen that rear suspension

05:17 to give it that lateral rigidity.

05:19 And you don't have any intrusion here

05:21 like you typically would with a cross member.

05:23 That means you get this underfloor storage as well

05:25 for the cargo blind.

05:26 Really is a decent amount of space there

05:29 that you can use just as a normal family wagon as well.

05:32 So welcome to the interior of the M3 Touring.

05:35 One of the things you'll notice that's different

05:37 to the M3 and the M4 is the screen here.

05:40 So this gets the curved display that we've seen

05:42 in some of BMW's newer products.

05:44 This is where the M3 sedan is going to go as well shortly.

05:48 So this isn't anything sort of new,

05:50 but this will be the first that actually gets this set up.

05:53 And I think that this just looks sensational.

05:56 We've seen this set up in the iX before,

05:58 works really well.

05:59 It's got OS8.

06:00 It is the latest version of iDrive

06:01 and the best version as well.

06:03 OS7 kind of dropped the ball a little bit there

06:05 in terms of functionality, but this is sensational.

06:07 And it just looks really nice.

06:09 The carbon inlays here are all just sort of

06:11 typical performance BMW and the rest of this

06:14 looks very familiar.

06:15 You've got your customizable drive modes up the top here.

06:17 So you can even set one of these to be rear wheel drive.

06:20 So if you do wanna go do some skids or something,

06:22 you just double tap one of those and away you go.

06:24 And I love the fact that these are carbon as well.

06:27 They just have a really cool feel to them.

06:28 So pretty impressive stuff.

06:30 Now under the bonnet, this is going to share an engine

06:31 with the M3 competition.

06:33 So that means three litre turbocharged six cylinder,

06:35 375 kilowatts of power, 650 Newton metres of torque,

06:41 and you've also got an eight speed

06:43 torque converter automatic.

06:44 So that's important to note as well,

06:46 because the dual clutch setup of the previous generation

06:49 M cars, it was great, but this really just takes it

06:52 to another level in terms of drivability.

06:54 You don't get any of that stuttering

06:55 and BMW has been able to engineer

06:57 a really good launch control program as well,

06:59 which is typically the downfall

07:00 of a standard torque converter.

07:02 Zero to 100 happens at around four seconds

07:05 and it will do almost 300 kilometres an hour

07:07 with the driver's package.

07:09 I mean, just think about that 300 kilometres an hour

07:12 in a family wagon, it is seriously cool stuff.

07:14 So that has been your first glance on Car Expert

07:18 of the M3 Touring.

07:19 I genuinely cannot wait to drive this

07:21 because it looks sensational

07:23 and I think if it's finished in the right colour,

07:26 this is just like the stealthiest performance wagon

07:29 on the market and the perfect reason to move away

07:31 from an SUV.

07:32 Now, if you did enjoy this video,

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07:39 send us likes and prayers so I can potentially

07:41 buy one of these one day.

07:42 But until next time, take it easy.

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