Despite being involved in a pretty serious front-end smash, a wrecked BMW M3 Touring has appeared for sale in Switzerland for the princely sum of CHF72,999, which, at the time of writing, translates to just over $78,900. New, the car costs roughly $181,000, so you can either consider this a bargain at below half price or an absolute scandal for a car that is currently undrivable.

Listed via AutoScout24, the car in question covered just 2,300 kilometers (1,429 miles) before the owner totaled it, which makes the sight all the more painful to bear. The only question is, should one repair it or transplant the innards to something else?

The M3 wagon was revealed in June last year with the same 3.0-liter twin-turbo S58 straight-six that you get in a "regular" M3, and as a Competition-based variant, it produced 503 horsepower and 479 lb-ft of torque. That power is transmitted via an eight-speed automatic transmission to all four corners, but the M xDrive AWD system and beefy brakes were clearly not enough to prevent this car's demise.

Perhaps the owner was fooling around with the variable traction control system or simply evaluating how quickly they could drive it, but whatever the cause of the accident, replacing the car will not be easy as demand is through the roof, which in the case of the M3 Touring is not made from carbon fiber reinforced plastic.

The M3 wagon, despite the best efforts of enthusiasts (49,000 signatories petitioned BMW to bring it stateside), was not and will not be sold in the US. BMW said that it would be too difficult to homologate the car for our market as an underlying 3 Series wagon is not sold here either.

Nevertheless, there are ways to get at least a little taste of what it would be like to own a long roof M3 in the US. A recent auction on Cars & Bids presented an M3 lookalike based on the E30 wagon, and it's titled in New York. That's not quite as capable as a G81 M3, but it's as close as you can get without building one yourself.