BMW M3 CS Touring Drag Race Shows Why 717 HP Can’t Save The Heavy M5 Wagon

With a 4.4-liter V8 hybrid powertrain delivering a combined total of 717 horsepower to all four wheels, there aren’t many station wagons in the world that can keep up with the BMW M5 Touring. That is, until you look elsewhere in the BMW stable, and specifically the M3 CS Touring. YouTube channel Carwow recently pitted BMW’s most extreme fast wagons against each other in a drag race, and the results were rather surprising, with the less powerful longroof beating the bigger brute to the quarter-mile mark by two tenths of a second, setting a time of 11.1 seconds compared to the M5’s 11.3. You can watch that race and another to the half-mile mark at the bottom of this article.BMW M3 CS Touring Beats M5 Wagon Over 1,320 Feet

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