{"id":310984,"date":"2025-08-02T04:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310984\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:07:12","slug":"bmw-just-set-the-coolest-nurburgring-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310984\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Just Set the Coolest N\u00fcrburgring Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

BMW revealed on Thursday it took a particularly interesting N\u00fcrburgring record back in April. The M3 CS Touring<\/a>, the company’s most extreme station wagon, now holds the record for quickest wagon around the Nordschleife, with a time of 7 minutes, 29.49 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the record-breaking lap wasn’t completed by a pro race car driver, but rather one of BMW’s development engineers,\u00a0J\u00f6rg Weidinger. The CS Touring beats the previous record, held by the normal M3 Touring<\/a>, by over five seconds. You can watch the full lap, published by the N\u00fcrburgring’s YouTube channel, below.<\/p>\n

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A lap time in the mid-seven-minute range may not sound impressive in a world where supercars can break the seven-minute barrier. But for a station wagon with five seats and a giant cargo area, it’s worth celebrating. For some context, the CS Touring is quicker than the Camaro ZL1, the C8 Corvette, and the last-generation BMW M5. The time is less than a second off the Nissan GT-R. For a wagon, that’s not bad.<\/p>\n

Of course, the M3 CS Touring is about as extreme as wagons get. Under the hood sits a turbocharged straight-six making 543 horsepower, sending power to all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic. In addition to the extra power, the CS also makes extensive use of carbon fiber to save weight, including a set of standard carbon buckets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“From the very beginning, it was clear that the BMW M3 CS Touring would set new standards in dynamics,” M CEO Frank van Meel said in a statement. “With a time under 7:30 minutes, this model impressively demonstrates that this vehicle concept perfectly combines racing DNA with everyday usability.”<\/p>\n

Sadly, prospective buyers in the US won’t be able to experience the M3 Touring firsthand, CS-trimmed or otherwise. BMW has repeatedly said it has no plans to bring the car Stateside, which is a damn shame. Should there be a next-gen M3 Touring, the success of the M5 Touring in America will determine if it comes here<\/a>. So not all hope is lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BMW revealed on Thursday it took a particularly interesting N\u00fcrburgring record back in April. The M3 CS Touring,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[113610,55364,72711,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bmw-m3","9":"tag-records","10":"tag-sedan","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114957205264414841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}