Enough of all this electric car nonsense. I’m sure they’ll work one day, but they don’t in 2023, unless you’re very rich and don’t really need a car. So let’s do something controversial and celebrate just how good the old internal combustion engined motor car has become. We appear to live in a world where we have to celebrate new, crap solutions that don’t work and to sneer at things which work perfectly well because they don’t fit certain agendas.
I have now covered 8,000 miles in the new BMW M3 Touring. BMW wants to tell you it’s focused on electrical things and it’ll use the word ‘mobility’ in ways as yet undiscovered by the rest of the English speaking world to inform you of its honourable aims. And yet it’s not really allowed to tell us that in the M3 Touring it has casually produced one of the best cars ever. There are marginally faster, more glamorous ways to punt yourself, a couple of kids and the family dog around, but none are as fun or as annoyingly competent as this thing.