2025 BMW M3 Touring Toronto Red Shows Its Subtle Facelift
2024 has been an excellent year for BMW fans with a soft spot for wagons. Not only is the M5 Touring official back but its smaller brother went through a Life Cycle Impulse. Well, we’re loosely using the term “LCI” since the changes are not significant. The G81 has officially touched down in South Africa where the M3 Touring poses for the camera in Toronto Red.
BMW iM3 Electric (Codename ZA0) to Start at 670 horsepower: Rumor
BMW’s first electric M3, known as the iM3 (project codename ZA0), is slated for a 2027 debut. Built on the forthcoming NA0 i3 platform launching in 2026, the iM3 will join the 3 Series family as a high-performance electric sedan. Initial models are expected to deliver around 670 horsepower, with higher-powered versions likely to follow. Although BMW has teased future quad-motor EVs exceeding 1,300 horsepower, the iM3 will launch at a more approachable performance level. It’s still unclear whether this base version will send the power to two or four wheels.
BMW Global Sales Are Down 2.3% So Far This Year
With the third quarter of the year in its rearview mirror, BMW has crunched the numbers for the first nine months of 2024. The math isn’t looking great since deliveries to customers are down by 2.3% compared to the January-September 2023 interval. The German luxury brand has sold 1,583,485 cars so far this year. Q3 was particularly bad as shipments decreased by 11.4%.