2023 BMW 3 Series facelift revealed, confirmed for Australia & More News Here

The facelifted 2023 BMW 3 Series has been revealed, forward of an Australian launch in direction of the tip of 2022.

Arriving three and a half years into the present ‘G20’ 3 Series vary’s run, the facelifted (or Life Cycle Impulse (LCI), in BMW communicate) mannequin provides restyled exterior design components – although no 4 Series-like tall grilles – plus a brand new twin-screen dashboard, and different enhancements.

Reshaped (however equally-sized) ‘kidney’ grilles are flanked up entrance by reworked LED headlights with flipped arrow-shaped daytime-running mild signatures, and sit above new air consumption designs with L-shaped accents as a part of the standard-fit M Sport pack.

The headlights incorporate normal LED tech on entry-level 320i and 330i fashions, stepping as much as adaptive models on the M340i xDrive, with blue accents and matrix expertise.

New 18-inch and 19-inch alloy wheel designs fill the arches, whereas on the rear there’s a redesigned decrease bumper, with further body-coloured components, and trapezoidal exhaust suggestions as normal on the M Sport – previously an M340i unique.

The M Sport package deal additionally features a mesh grille sample and black mirror caps, whereas a brand new M Sport Pro non-obligatory package deal provides black exterior accents for the grille, home windows and headlights, plus M Sport efficiency brakes with crimson calipers.

New colors embrace Skyscraper Grey metallic, M Brooklyn Grey metallic, BMW Individual Frozen Pure Grey metallic and Frozen Tanzanite Blue metallic.

Inside, the 3 Series vary – in addition to the hero M3 efficiency vary – advantages from BMW’s newest iDrive 8 twin-screen dashboard, with a 14.9-inch infotainment touchscreen and 12.3-inch digital instrument show built-in into one curved panel.

Highlights of the system embrace wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, augmented-reality navigation, a private assistant, 5G connectivity, and assist for a digital key by way of house owners’ iPhones.

Other inside upgrades embrace a redesigned gear selector for the eight-speed computerized transmission, and three-zone computerized local weather management – which is now normal throughout the mannequin vary – managed from the touchscreen.

No modifications have been made beneath the bonnet, the place the 3 Series retains a selection of petrol, diesel and plug-in hybrid powertrains in Europe.

In Australia, consumers will proceed to be supplied two 2.0-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder engine – the entry-level 135kW/300Nm 320i and top-selling 190kW/400Nm 330i – and a 285kW/500Nm 3.0-litre turbocharged petrol inline six-cylinder within the M340i xDrive.

The 330e plug-in hybrid may even carry over, pairing a 2.0-litre turbo four-cylinder engine with an electrical motor for mixed outputs of 215kW and 420Nm throughout XtraBoost mode, and a gasoline economic system declare of round two litres per 100 kilometres.

All fashions use eight-speed computerized transmissions as normal, powering the rear wheels within the four-cylinder vehicles, or all 4 wheels within the M340i.

Despite accounting for simply 3.4 per cent of 3 Series gross sales in Australia in 2020, the Touring wagon will stay on with the facelifted vary – although solely in 330i trim, regardless of the provision of a high-performance M340i xDrive Touring abroad.

The high-performance M3 Touring wagon has been locked in for Australia, doubtless within the first half of 2023 – given world manufacturing is ready to begin within the closing weeks of 2022.

Standard security options throughout the vary embrace autonomous emergency braking, lane departure warning, (handbook) cruise management, blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert, with computerized parking and a 360-degree digicam accessible as choices.

The 2023 BMW 3 Series vary is because of enter manufacturing in July 2022, forward of first Australian deliveries within the fourth quarter of 2022 (October to December).