The BMW M boss promised it and now we’ve seen a snippet of what will be the most powerful M5 Touring to date
We were told to keep an eye out for it and now BMW M has released the first – but admittedly very cryptic – teaser for the 2025 BMW M5 Touring via its official Instagram page.
Posted overnight with the caption ‘Never say never’, the teaser takes the form of a fast-paced video clip showing BMW M engineers machining and attaching high-performance body parts to the shell of what looks suspiciously like a BMW 5 Series Touring wagon – based on spy pics – before showcasing a few other key lines and telling viewers to ‘stay tuned’.
Hot on the heels of the very first BMW M3 Touring, the 2025 BMW M5 Touring would be the first high-performance M version of the 5 Series wagon since the V10-powered E61-series was axed in 2010.
This is the first time we’ve seen anything official to do with the prospect of a new M5 Touring, let alone the forthcoming M5 sedan based on the newly-released eighth-generation 5 Series.
Previously the biggest and best indication of a five-door M5 came from BMW M CEO Frank van Meel late last year, when he told car spotters to “keep your eyes open” for an M5 Touring and that if a prototype ends up being spotted on the Nurburgring then it’s surety for production.
Well it seems a prototype is exactly what the BMW M engineers are working on in the teaser because of all the snippets of bespoke body panels it is the flared rear wheel-arches that serve as the ultimate give-away on account of the 5 Series being the only other wagon in BMW’s global portfolio besides the smaller 3 Series.
There’s no preview or glimpses of any mechanical parts in the clip, but it’s been extensively reported the next-generation BMW M5 will be powered by a twin-turbo 4.4-litre V8 plug-in hybrid system good for more than 560kW of power and 1000Nm of torque.
Outputs like that should see the M5 Touring come close to usurping the 560kW/1050Nm Porsche Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo as the world’s most powerful wagon – and rival the Porsche Panamera Sport Turimso Turbo S E-Hybrid for the outright speed title – 315km/h is the benchmark to beat.
With the first M5 wagon in over a decade now being teased, it shouldn’t be too long before BMW’s marketing team start previewing the formidable new M5 sedan, which is understood to be in line for a reveal sometime in 2024.
However, we’ve seen camouflaged development vehicles testing nearly half a dozen times since January 2022.
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