{"id":537444,"date":"2026-03-09T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/?p=537444"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:02:36","slug":"bmw-i4-m50-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/cars\/bmw-i4-m50-touring","title":{"rendered":"BMW Is Sitting On A Weapon And Refuse To Pull The Trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll say upfront: I\u2019m a wagon guy. I own a B9 RS4 Avant<\/a> and I will defend the long roof to anyone who\u2019ll listen (and several people who won\u2019t). So when I tell you BMW is sitting on the bones of a genuinely great electric wagon and doing absolutely nothing with it, understand this isn\u2019t idle wishlisting. This is frustration.<\/p>

The BMW i4 M50<\/a> is, for all intents and purposes, already 90% of the way there.<\/p>

It\u2019s a four-door liftback. It\u2019s got the sleek, low-slung proportions that make wagons look good rather than bloated. It\u2019s packing around 400 kW and 795 Nm through all four wheels, which is enough to make your passengers very quiet very quickly. And because it\u2019s built on BMW\u2019s CLAR platform with batteries in the floor, the packaging already lends itself to a longer rear overhang without messing up the weight distribution.<\/p>

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DMARGE\u2019s render of the i4 M50 Touring in Kith Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>

You wouldn\u2019t even need to call it a Touring. Call it a Shooting Brake. Give it a subtle roofline extension, a raked rear hatch, maybe 20mm more glass in the D-pillar, and you\u2019d have something that looks like it was always supposed to exist. The proportions are already there. The silhouette practically begs for it.<\/p>

And here\u2019s the thing nobody at BMW seems willing to acknowledge: the electric wagon space is essentially empty.<\/p>

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