Car company April Fools' jokes can range from hit to Volkswagen's absolute miss, but BMW has just stolen the crown for all time. The German car company has just confirmed that the M3 Touring race car - based on the BMW M3 Touring road car - that it showed as a laugh last year is actually going to happen. It is headed to the Nürburgring 24 Hours, and hopefully, some more races this year. And best of all, BMW says its your fault it built it, citing immense backlash after the car last year was nothing more than a joke. Last Year, The M3 Touring GT3 Broke The Internet BMW Just under a year ago, BMW M Motorsport broke the internet with a post showing the then-brand-new M3 Touring wagon with a GT3 Evo race car touch. The company said it was the newest addition to the M Motorsport family, and it was the coolest racing wagon since Volvo and Tom Walkinshaw Racing brought an 850 Turbo wagon to the track in 1994. Of course, it was all an April Fool's prank.Today, M Motorsport's social media accounts have a new post. "We fooled you," the new post reads, "but you didn't laugh." After showing some of the hundreds of thousands of responses to the original, M asks "what if we actually went for it?"BMW What indeed?The road-ready M3 Touring is already serious on the track. The M3 Touring CS has the record for fastest wagon around the Nürburgring with a 7:29, just fractions slower than a standard M3 CS.BMW's M3 Touring GT3 Evo, though, is based on the M4 of the same name. That's been BMW's GT3 car since last season, with around 80 race wins and more than 100 other podium finishes in 2025, racing in GT3 series around the world. Serious Race Pedigree In Ultra-Fast Wagon BMW The race car makes 590 horsepower from its P58 inline-six. The P58 is a racing version of the S58 in the road cars, and it sends that power through an Xtrac six-speed sequential gearbox. It has carbon bodywork, an adjustable rear wing tall enough to worry about the sun, and, of course, all the safety equipment you could want.This is truly a unique project, and I am absolutely delighted to be a part of it. The fact that we took our fans’ reactions to an April Fools’ joke as an opportunity to actually make the BMW M3 Touring 24H a reality speaks to our closeness to our community and our enthusiasm for motorsport- BMW M works driver Jens KlingmannJust days after last year's fools, BMW showed that it really had built an M3 Touring GT3 Evo. The car used M4 Evo parts ahead of the A-pillars, but from there back it was made just for the wagon. Amazing details like quick-release pins for the hatch and a fuel filler in the rear side glass made it seem real.The gigantic inlet vents in the rear doors are what made it seem so special. Huge channels for air to the rear brakes and other coolers that probably can't make production, but really should. That car wasn't ready for racer production, though. It was built for BMW M by designer Simon von Broich, who has a history of building interesting BMWs for the company.BMW M races these. It also sells them to customers for their own race teams, but we don't think it will sell them this one. BMW says that this is "a car for the fans," which hints that it probably won't be challenging the M4 for wins. It won't actually be in the same class as the M4s, as BMW is entering it in the SPX class, not the SP9 class with the three M4 GT3 Evos.The 24H Nürburgring 2026 goes down starting May 15. The race goes green the following day, and the action doesn't stop until the 17th. BMW will run it with this livery in the races leading up to the 24-hour race - including this weekend's NLS2 race in which Max Verstappen will be competing in a Mercedes-AMG GT3, but will use a different livery for the 24H in May. Now if only BMW would hurry up and sell the standard wagon in the US.BMW M3 Touring GT3 Evo (14)-1