SPY PICS: BMW i5 Touring is a vicious electric M5 wagon

The 2025 BMW 5 Series Touring has just been spotted undergoing development testing on public roads in Europe – in battery-electric i5 form.

This latest sighting comes more than a year after a camouflaged BMW i5 sedan was spied and proves BMW isn’t mucking about with its plan to electrify 30 per cent of its global portfolio with an alternative energy drive system.

The thick camo wrap makes it hard to pinpoint specifics about the BMW i5 Touring wagon’s design, but it seems the new model – and wider new 5 Series family – will take a more evolutionary styling approach, as has become the expectation with BMW’s bigger models… save for the 7 Series.

Unlike said limousine, the 5 Series seems to have been spared a gargantuan leap away from the norm with a traditionally-shaped kidney grille and apparently conventional lighting signatures.

Speed freaks will prick up their ears when they realise these hot-off-the-press spy shots also technically preview the all-but-confirmed BMW M5 Touring ahead of its expected reveal in 2026.

A bit of cut and pasting of the previously seen M5 sedan’s front fascia, side skirts and alloys onto this i5 Touring’s five-door body would provide a rudimentary but effective enough preview of what will surely be one of the fastest wagons to date.

Our European sources tell us the 5 Series wagons will be available globally with a mix of internal combustion, electrified and battery-electric powertrains, but how many of them make it to Australia remains to be seen.

Odds are we won’t get every version, but the new BMW i5, a hybrid 5 Series and the inevitably savage new M5 are all but certain to become available here.

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