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Has everyone heard that the Bavarians are preparing to slap silly one of the last survivors of the station wagon era – the high-performance Audi RS 6 Avant – with the G61 BMW M5 Touring model?
Sure, the G60 series has had its fair share of controversies over the deployed styling, but we think it will match up pretty nicely with the all-new W214 Mercedes-Benz E-Class and its derivatives. Besides, it also arrived as the first-ever i5 to fight off the pesky Mercedes EQE – and now we are preparing to see the electric version grow a hatch in the back and adhere to strict family and grocery-getting policies.
Enthusiasts, however, are thrilled to welcome the upcoming BMW M5 Touring into the fold. For sure, the format is not everyone’s cup of tea, as crossover SUVs have basically taken over the automotive world. Alas, Audi’s RS 6 Avant has shown there’s still a place for these estates that can deliver the wife and kids to work and school during the week and then snap the neck of rivals trying to catch it on the Autobahn or the local racetrack.
Well, since automakers have decided to have one last try at securing customers for their executive station wagons, some folks might think that the Germans should be rivaled by the Japanese – so that they do not feel too alone, probably. Or at least that may be the strategy behind the arrival of the Lexus ES executive station wagon. Indeed, that may never be possible in the real world, but as always, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators doesn’t care about conventions or business strategies.
As such, Sugar Chow, the virtual artist better known as sugardesign_1 on social media, has paused his Chinese redesigns for a moment and gives us this estate hoot – a slammed widebody version of his prior dreams of Lexus ES wagons. So, after he went through the OEM-like variant and even dressed it for hypothetical off-road shenanigans, now we get the Japanese executive midsized car looking very JDM-tuned-like.
The project arrives complete with an aggressive widebody kit, a thoroughly slammed attitude, additional X-games-style lights, beefy (black) aero work, and a nice set of contrasting, concave ‘steelie’ Aerodiscs to wrap up the digital transformation. In the end, we know nothing about the hypothetical morphing, though, aside from what we already see in the exterior POVs. And that’s quite unfortunate because we would have loved to get the author’s input on the potential interior makeover and what should be hiding under the hood.
If you ask us if Lexus ever built an ES station wagon and then gave it the M5 and AMG-rivaling F Sport treatment, something along the lines of the 2UR-GSE V8 engine from the IS 500 F Sport Performance should be the heart and soul of the build – albeit with a lot more powerful than the latter’s 472 hp because the RS 6 Avant has 592 ponies and the BMW M5 Touring’s PHEV setup is rumored with XM (or even XM Label Red) levels of power! Yep, you read that right - the rumor mill thinks this 'grocery getter' will feature either 644 hp or even the full song of 738 electrified ponies from the M-branded flagship CUV!
Enthusiasts, however, are thrilled to welcome the upcoming BMW M5 Touring into the fold. For sure, the format is not everyone’s cup of tea, as crossover SUVs have basically taken over the automotive world. Alas, Audi’s RS 6 Avant has shown there’s still a place for these estates that can deliver the wife and kids to work and school during the week and then snap the neck of rivals trying to catch it on the Autobahn or the local racetrack.
Well, since automakers have decided to have one last try at securing customers for their executive station wagons, some folks might think that the Germans should be rivaled by the Japanese – so that they do not feel too alone, probably. Or at least that may be the strategy behind the arrival of the Lexus ES executive station wagon. Indeed, that may never be possible in the real world, but as always, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators doesn’t care about conventions or business strategies.
As such, Sugar Chow, the virtual artist better known as sugardesign_1 on social media, has paused his Chinese redesigns for a moment and gives us this estate hoot – a slammed widebody version of his prior dreams of Lexus ES wagons. So, after he went through the OEM-like variant and even dressed it for hypothetical off-road shenanigans, now we get the Japanese executive midsized car looking very JDM-tuned-like.
The project arrives complete with an aggressive widebody kit, a thoroughly slammed attitude, additional X-games-style lights, beefy (black) aero work, and a nice set of contrasting, concave ‘steelie’ Aerodiscs to wrap up the digital transformation. In the end, we know nothing about the hypothetical morphing, though, aside from what we already see in the exterior POVs. And that’s quite unfortunate because we would have loved to get the author’s input on the potential interior makeover and what should be hiding under the hood.
If you ask us if Lexus ever built an ES station wagon and then gave it the M5 and AMG-rivaling F Sport treatment, something along the lines of the 2UR-GSE V8 engine from the IS 500 F Sport Performance should be the heart and soul of the build – albeit with a lot more powerful than the latter’s 472 hp because the RS 6 Avant has 592 ponies and the BMW M5 Touring’s PHEV setup is rumored with XM (or even XM Label Red) levels of power! Yep, you read that right - the rumor mill thinks this 'grocery getter' will feature either 644 hp or even the full song of 738 electrified ponies from the M-branded flagship CUV!
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