First Drive – 2025 BMW M5 and M5 Touring: The Pursuit of Hybrid Performance [Video]

Feast your eyes on the all-new 2025 BMW M5 Sedan and M5 Touring, aka sports wagon. The venerable, high-performance AWD German machines are revitalized with more power and pronounced with more design highlights. More importantly, they enter the scene as plug-in hybrids to provide extra energy around town or when launch control is called upon. Both models are mechanically equivalent and operate similarly behind the wheel.

A few notable M5 features include a carbon fiber or glass roof, the BMW Curved Display with M-specific content, an Interaction Bar with ambient lighting, M rear spoiler and diffuser, M multifunction seats and seatbelts, muscular side skirts, Merino leather upholstery, and signature M quad exhaust pipes in black or chrome.

The new BMW M kidney grille dominates the front fascia, which is finished in black high gloss. At the same time, athletic proportions combine with clean surfaces and sculpted forms to outline the …