For £130k, Petroyle Restorations will sell you an M3 Touring that’s just like the one BMW almost made BMW didn’t make an E46-era 3 Series M3 Touring, but if it had, it would have looked pretty much like this. We’re not guessing at that, by the way. BMW revealed a design concept it had produced in 2000, and it looked precisely like this, but it didn’t put the idea into production. A quarter of a century on, however, it has become the chosen basis for what you see here. What to call it? Not quite a restomod – it’s mechanically an M3, just in a bodystyle BMW never made. It…
The best car BMW never built? Driving the sublime E46 M3 Touring
