BMW M5 Touring teased – before the new M5 sedan

UPDATED 27/06/2023 10:30am: After yesterday’s cryptic social media teaser, BMW M has officially confirmed development of the BMW M5 Touring and that the ballistic five-door family haler will debut in 2024.

The announcement was accompanied by a fresh set of high-definition teaser images showcasing the flying five-door’s new wagon silhouette, which for all intents and purposes just looks like a stretched version of the rampant new BMW M3 Touring, albeit with a longer bonnet.

No specifics have been provided besides the inclusion of an electrified powertrain, but overseas reports suggest the XM-derived twin-turbo 4.4-litre V8 plug-in hybrid system will churn out close to 590kW of power – some 30kW more than first expected – along with 1000Nm of torque.

Figures like that would comfortably make the M5 Touring the most powerful wagon on the planet and more than likely yield a sub-3.0sec 0-100km/h time.

According to BMW M executives, the new M5 Touring is “the perfect symbiosis of M-typical performance, uncompromising long-distance comfort and impressive spaciousness”.

“Just like the future BMW M5 Sedan, the Touring variant will also feature a completely newly developed partially electrified drive system,” said BMW M.

“Its M-typical performance characteristics as well as the precisely tuned chassis technology refined with innovative systems facilitate driving dynamics and agility at a level unique in this vehicle class.

“Testing of the first prototypes of the new BMW M5 Touring is to commence in the next few days in urban traffic as well as on country roads and motorways around Munich and at the BMW M GmbH headquarters in Garching.”

From there the five-door M5 will move onto the Nürburgring, where we’ve seen its sedan sibling being thrashed round on several occasions already, suggesting a global reveal for the four-door could happen by the end of this year.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE PUBLISHED 26/06/2023 5:00pm: 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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