Due out in 2024, the primary BMW M5 Touring in over a decade will be a part of the next-generation sedan mannequin in European showrooms. We have not seen the super-wagon but, however preview pictures launched by the Munich-based model recommend the long-roof M5 might be pretty simple to identify.
Though it is totally lined in camouflage, we are able to already inform that the M5 Touring encompasses a extra muscular-looking design than the next-generation 5 Sequence unveiled in Could 2023. Its again finish is characterised by a roof-mounted spoiler and quad exhaust retailers built-in into what appears to be like like a large diffuser. The scale of the brake rotors seen by means of the wheels suggests that there is severe energy on faucet.
Stickers on the entrance doorways verify that the M5 Touring will obtain a point of electrification, however we’ll must be affected person to seek out out what’s beneath the hood. BMW merely famous that the Touring will share “a totally newly-developed [and] partially electrified drive system” with the next-generation M5 sedan. An unverified report claims that the plug-in drivetrain will encompass a twin-turbocharged, 4.4-liter V8 known as S68 internally, an electrical motor, and an M-tuned model of BMW’s xDrive all-wheel-drive system. Nothing is official but, however the report pegs the M5’s output at roughly 718 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque, up from 600 and 553, respectively, within the present automobile.
BMW will publish extra particulars concerning the subsequent M5 Touring within the coming months, and it’ll unveil the wagon earlier than the tip of 2024. It is too early to inform whether or not the M5 Touring will compete towards the Audi RS6 Avant and the Mercedes-AMG E63 S Wagon in the US. Within the meantime, the corporate will quickly start testing its subsequent hot-rodded wagon on the highway and on the observe, together with on the Nürburgring.
Excessive demand for the primary M3 Touring satisfied BMW executives to deliver the M5 Touring again to the vary. We have been right here earlier than, although: the second-generation, E34-based M5 was provided as a wagon — it stands out as BMW M’s first entry into the section. The E39-generation M5 was solely accessible as a sedan, however its 5.0-liter V10-powered successor spawned one other Touring-badged M5 wagon (pictured above).