When BMW launched the i5 Touring earlier this week, one of many variations it highlighted in press photos was an eDrive40 painted in Cape York Inexperienced and geared up with the M Sport Bundle. An nearly equivalent specification of Bavaria’s first-ever electrical wagon has now touched down on the BMW UK headquarters.

The one distinction we’re seeing between the 2 vehicles is the swap from blue to crimson calipers. This one too has the Shadowline headlights flanking a blacked-out kidney grille. It’s additionally sitting on equivalent 20-inch wheels (939 M model), however BMW permits you to go a measurement greater or decrease when configuring the i5 Touring. Though this isn’t the warmer i5 M60 Touring, it exhibits that with the precise choices, even the lesser eDrive40 can look posh.

The brand new 5 Sequence wagon is shaping to be a superb all-rounder, though the totally electrical model would possibly give folks vary anxiousness. As well as, the shortage of a gasoline-only model at launch is a tricky capsule to swallow because you’ll both get one of many diesels (520d, 520d xDrive, 540d xDrive) or the plug-in hybrids (530e, 530e xDrive). Since this pre-production prototype was filmed within the UK, we must always point out BMW’s native division will solely promote the G61 technology as a PHEV and EV. That’s proper – there aren’t any pure ICE variants obtainable.

The walkaround video doesn’t essentially paint an correct image of how massive the posh wagon has gotten for its sixth technology. The Mercedes E-Class Property rival is 97 mm longer (5,060 mm), 32 mm wider (1,900 mm), and 17 mm greater (1,515 mm) than the previous G31 mannequin. The engineers have additionally stretched the wheelbase by 20 mm (2995 mm), which BMW says is the longest within the section.

Predictably, it’s additionally a heavy automotive since even the lightest of the bunch – the 520d with rear-wheel drive – ideas the scales at 1,835 kilograms. The i5 M60 is the porkiest, at 2,350 kg. These figures inform us that the hotly anticipated M5 Touring with its plug-in hybrid V8 setup goes to be severely heavy. The G99 can be launched later this 12 months.

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