Like many of its SUV counterparts, the first U.S.-bound M5 Touring is basically a Vegas illusionist, able to make several hundred pounds disappear.

For the past couple of years American BMW fans have watched with envy as other parts of the world got to enjoy the M3 Touring, a car not sold in the U.S. The regular 3-series Touring body style isn't federalized,

T he BMW M5 is now in its seventh generation, with three of those generations featuring an M5 Touring as part of the product offering. But the 2025 BMW M5 Touring represents the f

One is the availability of a Touring body style, something BMW has only offered twice before, on the 1990s E34 and 2000s E61, and which has been absent from the M5 configurator in the UK since 2010. The return of the M5 wagon means BMW M now has two performance estate cars in its stable, the M3 Touring having now been on sale for a couple of years.

If you dig the new 2025 BMW M5 , surely you’ve read our first-drive review of the sedan a couple of weeks ago. Today, we’ll focus on the M5 Touring, which we also got to drive on its home soil. Remember,

It’s hard to think of a car that contains more ability under just one (carbon fibre) roof than the new BMW M5 Hybrid Touring – fast in a straight line, practical and spacious as an estate car, and chock-full of tech thanks to its new i5 -influenced cabin.

Bigger isn’t always better, even when it comes to BMWs.

But there seems to be a light renaissance for estate versions (particularly in North America, and BMW has been surprised by the reception of the M3 Touring in Europe), so the G90 saloon gets a hatchback version.

BMW hasn’t built an M5 wagon since 2010, and this is the first one ever available in North America. The Touring gets the same 717-hp PHEV V8 powertrain we’ve already tried in the M5 sedan. When BMW launches a new generation of M5 the car world snaps to attention.