BMW M3 Sedan and Touring Review 2025— Supercar You Can Actually Use
Ready for the ultimate sport sedan and wagon? See what the 2025 BMW M3 Sedan & M3 Touring has to offer in this in-depth: performance, interior, daily usability & pricing for driving addicts in Europe.
Once Upon a Time in Bavaria…
Shut your eyes. Visualise a deserted Alpine highway. No speed traps, no caravans hurtling along at 60 in the overtaking lane — just you, a newly surfaced strip of tarmac, and a straight-six serenade ringing out from under the bonnet. 2025 BMW M3 Sedan & M3 Touring — one where down-to-earth practicality is clad in racing stripes and you carrier packs more muscle than an antique Ferrari.
The M3 saga didn’t begin with wireless CarPlay and WiFi hotspots. It began with cigarette sponsorship, touring car trophies, and a bunch of slightly insane engineers at BMW M who asked themselves what would occur if you placed a racing car on the street. The result: the E30 M3 — boxy, brutish, and to this day, the standard for fun in a four-seater.
Cut to 2025 and the M3 has matured — kind of. It’s more intelligent, quicker, and possesses more technology than the Space Shuttle. But at its heart? It’s the same car your dad warned you not to get — unless he’s hip, in which case you likely got his hand-me-down E46 instead.
Interior: Where Race Car Meets Business Class
Crack open the driver’s door and you’re hit with that new-BMW smell — leather, electronics, and a whiff of “I probably shouldn’t let my kids eat in here.”
The M3’s interior has gone straight-up sci-fi: a huge Curved Display sweeps across the dashboard, combining your digital gauges and entertainment into one beautiful slice of glass. It’s iDrive 8.5-enabled, so you can change everything from ambient lighting hue to your exhaust sound — yes, your exhaust has a mood setting. It’s the future, baby.
Quality of materials? Traditional BMW — soft leathers, Alcantara, cold metal, and carbon fiber trim that reminds you you’re not driving your uncle’s 320i. The fit and finish is German OCD of the highest order — every click, every switch, every door thunk is an ASMR experience for petrolheads.
Then there’s the seating. Regular M Sport seats are firm enough for back-road shenanigans yet comfortable enough for the four-hour trudge back from the Alps. Want commitment? The box for M Carbon Bucket Seats — a cross between furniture and spine readjustment kit. They’re great to look at but don’t be fooled: if you’re going to be doing Big Macs through a drive-thru, perhaps reconsider.
Back Seats and Boot: The Practical Punchline
This is where the M3 Touring shine. The sedan is practical — but the Touring is sensible in that peculiarly absurd manner. Want to transport ski equipment, a labradoodle, three suitcases, and still reach 280 km/h on the Autobahn? Ja, bitte.
Rear legroom is adequate for grown-ups — although your friends will doubt their life choices when you let loose all 523 ponies up a mountain road. The trunk? Large enough for your weekend getaway, your side hustle courier ride, or simply all the excuses you’ll have to share with your spouse when they see the monthly payments.
Performance: Quick enough to Make Your Brain Leak
Okay, enough of cupholders — let’s discuss engines. The 2025 M3 remains faithful to the much-loved formula: the good old turbo 3.0-liter inline-six so sweet it have to be packaged with a dentist’s warning.
Base M3 Sedan: 473 horsepower, rear-wheel drive, manual transmission — the last gasp for the dying breed for those who still enjoy rowing their own.
M3 Competition Sedan: 503 horses, smooth 8-speed M Steptronic, rear-wheel drive for smoky entrances out of roundabouts.
M3 Competition xDrive Sedan: 523 horsepower, all-wheel drive, 0-100 km/h in roughly 3.4 seconds. Grips like glue, accelerates like a rocket.
M3 Touring Competition xDrive: Same brutal spec as the xDrive Sedan — but with enough boot room for a German Shepherd and your weekly food shop.
This thing doesn’t just go fast — it feels fast. The power delivery is instant, the steering is surgically precise, and the exhaust note is pure mischief. Engage Sport Plus, dial back the traction, and it’ll do power slides you’ll be telling your grandkids about — assuming they’re not all driving self-driving pods by then.
Handling: The Sweet Spot
The M3 isn’t about straight-line figures. It’s about the way it turns into corners, the way the chassis communicates with you, the way the suspension devours poor road without reducing your spine to powder. The adaptive dampers adjust so rapidly it’s as if the car is reading your mind — cruising comfortable one moment, corner-carving the next.
The rear-wheel-drive base version is the purist’s pick — slightly more playful, a touch more tail-happy. The xDrive versions, meanwhile, add grip and confidence, especially for those wet mornings on your commute when you’re definitely not pretending you’re in the DTM.
Safety: Because Sometimes It’s Not Your Fault
All this lunacy would be useless without brains to back it up. BMW hasn’t cut corner — the M3 comes loaded with:
Forward Collision Mitigation — your guardian angel when you’re daydreaming at 200 km/h.
Blind Spot Assist & Lane Keeping — because motorways are a tough.
Adaptive Cruise Control — makes traffic jams bearable.
360° Cameras & Self-Parking — because scraping those carbon splitters would cost alot.
Throw in the fortress-like build, airbags aplenty, and a five-star Euro NCAP rating (as you’d expect), and the M3 shows that you can go fast and remain safe.
Daily Life: The Supercar For Everyday Use
The M3 Touring particularly demonstrates that BMW is capable of creating a car that excites and functions in the real world. It’ll cheerfully do the school run every day, the Costco trip, or the holiday drive — then scorch past hot hatches on the autobahn home.
Want to remain subtle? Opt for a dark shade and forego the massive M decals. Want to make sure everyone knows you’re there? Do Isle of Man Green, put on the M Performance exhaust, and say hello to the neighbours — they’ll hear you coming either way.
Price and Availability: Pack a Big Wallet
All this iniquity doesn’t come cheap — but let’s face it, you probably knew that.
Base M3 Sedan (manuel): ~€88,000
M3 Competition Sedan: ~€95,000
M3 Competition xDrive Sedan: ~€98,000
M3 Touring Competition xDrive: ~€102,000+
Add in a few essentials (carbon pack, ceramic brakes, pretentious paint) and you’re quickly blowing €120,000. But if you need thrills and utility wrapped up in one missile-borne German package, the M3 remains a steal compared to supercars.
Pros and Cons: Brutal Honesty
Pros
Spine-tingling performance on any road, any weather.
The Touring version — the world’s coolest family car?
Build quality and tech that don’t quite feel premium enough.
Still has a manual — heroes in BMW.
Shouty or subtle — you decide.
Cons
Costs a lot to buy and run — lots of power = lots of fuel.
Ride can be stiff — big wheels prefer smooth roads.
Manual not offered on the quickest versions.
You’ll spend half your life justifying why you didn’t just buy an SUV.
Final Verdict: The Legend, Evolved
Cars such as the M3 shouldn’t be around anymore — not with the EVs and crossovers that keep Europe’s streets congested. And yet here we are: BMW continues to produce a sport sedan (and wagon!) that terrorizes back roads, does school runs, and puts you in a smile every time you press that start button.
It’s not cheap. It’s not subtle. It’s not sensible in the traditional sense. But the M3 was never about making sense. It’s about making fun — every drive, every day.
So if you’ve got the wallet, the passion, and the nerve, the 2025 BMW M3 is waiting. Just promise me you’ll use it properly — empty road, dawn light, windows down, inline-six on full song. That’s living.
FAQs — 2025 BMW M3
Q: Is the new BMW M3 still manual?
Yes! The base rear-drive M3 Sedan is equipped with a 6-speed manual.
Q: Is the Touring sold in Europe?
Absolutely — the M3 Touring Competition xDrive is a Europe-only.
Q: What’s the power?
Between 473 hpto 523 hp base to Competition xDrive.
Q: How quick?
0–100 km/h in 3.4 seconds for the xDrive Competition.
Q: How much?
Around €88,000 for the entry-level sedan — the Touring is more than €100,000.
