BMW M3 Touring debuts in Safety Car trim, and violet at Goodwood

The new 2023 BMW M3 Touring, revealed only a few days ago, has appeared as the new MotoGP Safety Car this week, decked out with appropriate livery and lighting.

It's likely we'll see the hot new wagon do duty as a police car somewhere in the world, sometime soon – but for now, this Safety Car trim offers a good idea of how mean it'd look on patrol.

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For its duties on track, the M3 Touring gets a livery made up of the M division's iconic tricolor stripes – the centre colour used to be violet to represent the blue and red combined, but nowadays it's simply a darker blue.

Over the years, the design of the M logo and the M stripes has been carefully refined, with the color purple changed to a dark blue, for example.

BMW M's 50 Years celebrations are also observed in the livery, and – as you'd expect for a car that needs to be seen and obeyed – the M3 Touring Safety Car is also decked out in a full set of lights on the roof and in the grille.

And how about those stacked quad pipes at the rear? 👇

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The lit-up wagon will make its track duty debut at the MotorGP British Grand Prix in August.

Along with that reveal, we've also now seen the M3 Touring in a third colour, following its initial debut in grey and black.

Making its Goodwood Festival of Speed debut, the longroof M3 was shown in a suitably eye-catching Daytona Violet. BMW hasn't released any official shots.

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BMW M3 Touring for Australia

The Touring will come to Australia in Competition trim only, with a 3.0-litre, twin-turbo straight-six delivering 375kW of power and 650Nm of torque, sent to the xDrive AWD system through an eight-speed torque-converter automatic.

BMW M says the M3 Touring will complete the 0-100km/h sprint in just 3.6 seconds – roughly 0.3 seconds faster than its rear-wheel-drive siblings.

Watch for more local details in the months to come, ahead of its first-quarter 2023 launch.

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The Daytona Violet photos shown here are from CarScoops.