The BMW M5 Touring is coming again.

BMW M GmbH has confirmed it’s going to introduce the long-rumoured long-roof in 2024, and has launched a couple of teaser pictures.

The high-performance M5 Touring will accompany the M5 sedan that has already commenced highway and observe testing.

It’ll be the primary M5 Touring since 2010 and solely the third era of M5 to supply this physique fashion, and can slot in above the brand new M3 Touring – the first-ever M3 wagon.

The teaser pictures present a camouflaged prototype, with a reasonably rakish tailgate topped by a spoiler.

There are some prototype components nonetheless on this instance, together with fake reflectors on the tailgate and testing tools inside.

For now, the mannequin seems to obtain dual-circular exhausts, nevertheless this may increasingly change earlier than the automobile goes into manufacturing.

BMW says the brand new M5 vary will supply “partly electrified” powertrains.

“We are actually additionally putting in a hybrid drive system with typical M efficiency in different high-performance vehicles,” mentioned Dirk Häcker, head of growth at BMW M GmbH.

The brand new M5 will reportedly undertake the plug-in hybrid V8 powertrain from the XM crossover, which has 550kW of energy and 1000Nm of torque. It has a claimed 88km of electrical vary due to its 25.7kWh lithium-ion battery pack.

The present M5 makes use of a twin-turbocharged 4.4-litre V8 with 460kW and 750Nm in its strongest CS guise and doesn’t supply any hybrid help.

BMW M might use the XM’s hybrid-specific M xDrive all-wheel drive system which incorporates an digital rear differential lock within the rear axle transmission.

It additionally options an energetic anti-roll system, though it’s not clear if the lower-riding M5 would require the identical tech.

The model confirmed it has commenced the “sensible part of its sequence growth course of” for the M5.

BMW M says it’s going to start testing of the M5 Touring within the coming days on city and nation roads and motorways close to Munich, earlier than placing it via its paces on the Nurburgring.

The sedan, codenamed G90, is reportedly anticipated to enter manufacturing in July 2024, whereas the Touring, codenamed G99, will comply with in November 2024.

By reintroducing a efficiency wagon of this dimension, BMW will as soon as once more have a rival for the Audi RS6 and Mercedes-AMG E63 wagons – although solely the Audi is offered right here.

Primarily based on spy photographs, the inside of the M5 is predicted to not stray removed from the 5 Collection/i5’s present format and design, excluding some particular M cues.

The inside of the 5 Collection boasts a curved show housing a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and a 14.9-inch touchscreen which runs BMW iDrive 8.5.

BMW has solely provided an M5 Touring in two completely different generations.

It produced 891 examples of the E34 era wagon between 1992 and 1995, and it was to a big extent hand-finished.

The M5 Touring disappeared till the wild, V10-powered E61 entered manufacturing. Simply 1009 had been produced and offered between 2007 and 2010.

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