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Originally Posted by 10"
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Originally Posted by M-technik-3
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Originally Posted by swagon
No, you just fail to buy wagons and your country has strict/different certification regulations that cost too much.
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The car is pretty much already certified as the M4 with slightly different body work. Audi Sold out their Hot Wagon here and as does Mercedes. |
Audi and Mercedes had their wagons certified as ordinary A6 and E-Class wagons. That means the wagon body style for those cars were already federalized—
The G81 is NOT an M4 when it comes to federalization—so it requires full crash testing as a wagon—which has pretty much a 0% chance of happening.
At this point it is virtually impossible for the M3 Wagon to come here—no petition will change that. |
To tag onto this there was a lot of info shared by insiders months ago when the wagon was first tipped by M.
Basically bmw made a design decision on the G21 knowing it was not headed for the us market that directly violates a US safety guideline. So the cost to bring to the US would be both the us market testing AND the vehicle layout redesign to meet us market standard. So millions of dollars against a few units for the US from a total run of ~1000ish M cars
For reference the old threads can be dug up but as I read it: the issue was how bmw located the battery, per the letter of us regulations it counts as being "in" the passenger compartment and poses a hazard during an accident.
The same scenario likely applies to the 3.0 CSL, as insiders have noted the car is almost certainly using the race car version of the chassis and that is probably different enough that it counts as a different car and would need redesign and special testing…. Not worth it for an ultra low production collectors car they are only making ~50? examples