The new edition of the BMW 3 Series Touring makes its mark in the
premium sports estate segment with its hallmark BMW dynamic prowess,
enhanced practicality and versatility, and a range of standard
equipment features assembled to meet the challenges of everyday life.
The new car’s larger interior is extremely versatile and
designed to adapt to everything its customers’ modern, active
lifestyles can throw at it. In this role, the new BMW 3 Series Touring
convinces equally as both a sporty, elegant and dynamic way to eat up
the miles and a comfortable and spacious vehicle for sports and
leisure pursuits.
Its harmonious proportions ensure the new BMW 3 Series Touring
appears from every angle as if cut from a single mould and proves that
impressive practicality and dynamic design need not be mutually
exclusive. The sweeping silhouette with smoothly sloping roofline,
side windows extending well back to the rear and a powerful rear end
all combine to create a distinctive Touring character and highlight
the huge potential of the new BMW 3 Series variant at first glance.
Leading the way: more space for luggage and clever details.
With 97 millimetres added to the car’s overall length and
50 millimetres to its wheelbase, the new BMW 3 Series Touring offers
extra room for passengers and luggage alike. Plus, this space can be
adapted for a variety of uses, allowing the new car to turn its hand
to a range of activities. A 35-litre increase in capacity (to 495
litres) means the load compartment can offer more space than any of
the Touring’s rivals. Standard equipment designed to meet the
challenges of everyday life, such as the 40:20:40 split/folding rear
seat bench, the automatic tailgate with separate rear window opening,
the stainless steel protective strip on the comfortably low loading
sill (62 centimetres from the ground), the separate partition net
and a luggage compartment cover that stows away neatly into an
underfloor compartment highlight the ability of the new BMW 3 Series
Touring to adapt as required to the situation at hand.
Made-to-measure options like the adaptive attachment system with
variable plug-in elements for the load compartment floor, the
hands-free tailgate opening function as part of the Comfort Access
option, and the electrically pivoting trailer coupling further enhance
long-distance comfort and make it even easier to transport a variety
of gear.
Alongside its extra practicality and versatility, the new BMW 3
Series Touring also benefits from enhanced ride comfort, the
availability of the new Sport Line, Luxury Line and Modern Line
equipment packages, and the materials and colour concept familiar from
the recently introduced 3 Series Sedan.
An optional M Sport
package will also be available from launch.
Agility and dynamic performance are among the
other qualities which set the new BMW 3 Series Touring apart.
Customers can choose from three refined, economical and punchy engines
at launch, all of which boast BMW TwinPower Turbo technology.
Alongside the new four-cylinder petrol unit developing 180 kW/245 hp
and revised 2-litre diesel with 135 kW/184 hp, the line-up also
includes an optimised six-cylinder diesel producing 190 kW/ 258 hp
that combines sporty dynamics with significantly reduced fuel
consumption and emissions. All engines fulfil the stipulations of the
EU5 exhaust standard, while the 320d diesel unit can be further
optimised to meet EU6 specification, if desired. The Driving
Experience Control switch with ECO PRO mode, meanwhile, opens up extra
fuel-saving potential for all engine variants.
A sporty six-speed manual gearbox sends power to the rear wheels in
the four-cylinder models. And BMW also offers an innovative
eight-speed automatic transmission – fitted as standard in the
six-cylinder diesel model – as an option. A further option is
the eight-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifts on the
steering wheel. Both transmission variants link up with the fuel
consumption-reducing Auto Start-Stop function.
Advanced suspension technology, featuring a large number of
light-alloy components and new tuning, the torque steer-free Electric
Power Steering, an up to 40-kilogram lighter overall weight and
finely-balanced axle load distribution set the seal on the car’s
dynamic concept. State-of-the-art electronic control systems enhance
the dynamic potential of the new BMW 3 Series Touring and help to
ensure it displays the perfect combination of sporting prowess and
ride comfort. The new Touring can be ordered with M Sport suspension
or the Adaptive M Sport suspension as an option.
BMW EfficientDynamics.
In addition to its
enviable practicality and sporting dynamics, the outstanding fuel
economy of the new BMW 3 Series Touring helps maximise driving
pleasure. The key here is the BMW EfficientDynamics development
strategy, whose influence can be seen in virtually every area of the
new model. In addition to the ultra-frugal petrol and diesel engines,
the intelligent lightweight construction concept, optimised
aerodynamics and other measures including the Auto Start-Stop
function, Brake Energy Regeneration, Optimum Shift Indicator and
on-demand operation of ancillary components, ensure that the powerful
BMW 3 Series Touring also boasts impressively low fuel consumption and
emissions. The Driving Experience Control switch with ECO PRO mode
offers further potential for fuel saving.
BMW ConnectedDrive.
An extensive selection of driver assistance systems and mobility
solutions, offered as standard or as options under the BMW
ConnectedDrive programme, allows the new BMW 3 Series Touring to set
the benchmark in its segment in terms of safety, convenience and
infotainment. One highlight of the range is the latest-generation
full-colour Head-Up Display, which projects key information onto the
windscreen in sharp resolution. Included alongside an array of other
comfort and safety-enhancing assistance systems is extremely effective
interface technology that allows extensive use of external mobile
phones and numerous Bluetooth office functions for internet-based
services.
The Apps option and the free BMW Connected app provide
a gateway to services such as social networks, web radio and the
iPhone calendar function. Finally, information and office services
along with travel and leisure planners further enhance the individual
convenience and comfort of travelling in the new BMW 3 Series Touring.
Images : 2012 BMW 3-Series Touring
[Source : BMW]
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