It’s easy to forget BMW is developing another gasoline-powered M3 when so much of the conversation revolves around the electric model. But make no mistake: another six-cylinder sports sedan is on the way. Fresh footage captured at the Nürburgring by Carspotter Jeroen gives us our best look yet at the successor to the current-generation M3. We’ll likely see plenty more of these camouflaged prototypes, since the car isn’t expected to break cover until 2028 at the earliest.
From the few details BMW has shared, the new M3 definitely won’t be a plug-in hybrid like its bigger brother, the M5. It will, however, use a “new type of six-cylinder engine,” according to Mike Reichelt, Head of Neue Klasse. Some have speculated about a radical switch to a V6, something Munich has never put into a production car, even though prototypes were secretly built. However, M CEO Frank van Meel has made it crystal clear that the inline-six is here to stay.
