It sure looks like BMW is putting wide arches on a long 5 Series…
A short clip shared on Instagram by BMW M appears to tease the rumored BMW M5 Touring (station wagon). For a brief moment, we glimpse two workers fitting widened rear arches to a low, long-roof vehicle of some sort, which means it's not an SUV but a wagon. The not-for-USA M3 Touring has already been revealed and is not expected to spawn a more hardcore variant, so it fits that BMW must be building anticipation for the first station wagon version of the M5 since the V10-powered E61. This new version, based on the yet-to-be-revealed G90 BMW M5 sedan, is internally known as G99.
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This is big news because, unlike the M3 wagon, the M5 wagon could well make it to American shores. Last year, BMW M boss Frank van Meel told CarBuzz that buyers want a high-performance wagon: “We listened to our dealers and our customers, and they're coming more and more, asking for a Touring. So, we are taking that into consideration.”
He also told us that if we see something like a big wagon testing on the Nurburgring, it means that BMW is going to build it. That sounded like a sly confirmation that it's only a matter of time before development work outside the factory begins.
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What can we expect? Well, the usual M-style body panels, fascias, exhausts, brakes, and wheels will be present, while under the hood, we're expecting the powertrain to be seriously potent. An insider told CarBuzz earlier this year that the new M5 feels “like a rocket ship” and that engineers were told to “just imagine what [the XM Label Red drivetrain] would feel like in a smaller package,” suggesting that the M5's 4.4-liter twin-turbo hybrid system could offer the same 738 horsepower as that SUV.
With this teaser focusing on a wagon before any official details on the M5 sedan have been announced, we think the wagon and sedan will be revealed simultaneously, and they should arrive very soon indeed. Perhaps the Goodwood Festival of Speed next month will provide the ideal setting for a global reveal.
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