Is BMW Teasing A Nurburgring Lap Time For The M3 CS Touring?

Lap data are typically not a deciding issue for somebody shopping for a wagon. Nevertheless, the M3 Touring isn’t your typical grocery getter, focusing on a distinct segment of consumers who need to have all of it. A brand new publish on social media suggests BMW is again on the Nürburgring with the G81. As an alternative of returning with the usual automobile, the M division is upping the ante with the warmer Competitors Sport.

A video shared on Instagram exhibits the M3 CS Touring tackling the difficult German racetrack. The “been on a scorching lap” message gives the look that BMW is teasing an improved lap time. The time to beat is 7 minutes and 35 seconds, a efficiency achieved by the usual automobile three years in the past.

That lap time hasn’t been surpassed by one other manufacturing wagon, so the M3 Touring nonetheless holds the document for the quickest property across the Nürburgring. The time applies to the longer 20.8-kilometer (12.9-mile) configuration of the monitor. A possible record-breaking run would mirror BMW’s technique with the M2 CS. The “child M” just lately shaved 7.6 seconds off the usual mannequin’s lap.

It’s too quickly to say whether or not the M3 CS Touring will trim as a lot time from the usual G81’s efficiency. Nevertheless it’s definitely doable, particularly for the reason that lap might have been completed utilizing the non-obligatory “ultra-track tires” introduced when the spicy wagon debuted in January. The M2 CS additionally used the stickiest rubber out there—Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS—when it dethroned the Audi RS3 because the quickest compact automobile across the ‘Ring.

As for potential challengers, not many come to thoughts. Audi would possibly strive with the long run RS5 Avant or RS6 Avant. We reckon Mercedes-AMG is unlikely to make a run with its much-criticised four-cylinder hybrid C63 Estate. And let’s not overlook BMW now has an M5 Touring. The G99 might finally intention for wagon supremacy on the Nordschleife too.

Not that we wanted additional convincing, however the M3 CS Touring could be the most fascinating automobile in BMW’s present lineup. It ticks almost each field and has room to retailer them in its beneficiant cargo space. A Nürburgring document could be one other feather in its cap, and a solution to justify the lofty price ticket. In Germany, it begins at €152,900 and climbs previous €173,000 with all of the choices, together with carbon-ceramic brakes and Particular person paint.

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