While we do get a few wagons here and there, it’s generally safe to assume that most will never be sold in the U.S. We can’t really get too mad at the automakers for it because Americans simply don’t buy wagons in large numbers, but it still hurts to see other countries playing with toys we can’t have. So when BMW announced plans to sell the M5 Touring in the U.S., it was a big surprise. And apparently, if we buy enough M5 wagons, there’s a chance we’ll get the next M3 Touring, too.
Speaking with CarBuzz, Andreas Meyer, BMW’s Vice President of Product Management, said, “[The] current M3 Touring is already in its life cycle, so it would be very unlikely that we bring it to the US, but if [the] M5 Touring does well enough, maybe the next generation [of the M3 Touring] could come [to America].” Now, that’s not 100 percent confirmation of anything, and Meyer could very easily have been telling CarBuzz what it wanted to hear, but it’s still something, and we’ll definitely take it.
All we have to do to get the M3 Touring sold in the U.S. is buy an undefined number of M5 Tourings. Easy, peasy. Well, except for the part where the base-model M5 Touring costs more than $120,000. Doing some quick back-of-the-napkin math, that’s…significantly more than most people make in a year. Surely, BMW knows that and isn’t expecting the M5 wagon to sell like an F-150.
If you can afford one, though, unfortunately, you’re obligated to buy one whether you want to or not. It’s not about you or the M5 Touring. It’s about sending a message that we can be trusted to buy the next-generation M3 Touring. Sure, the M5 weighs as much as a train and has turned into a hybrid, but that’s a sacrifice you have to be willing to make for the sake of the enthusiast community. After all, how is anyone supposed to buy a heavily depreciated M3 Touring if it wasn’t ever offered here in the first place?