Article content The humble station wagon goes by many names: “estate,” “shooting brake,” and in the case of the all-new 2025 BMW M5 PHEV station wagon, “Touring.” After spending a day hustling the new plug-in hybrid M5 Touring around Bavaria and along the autobahn outside of Munich, I can confidently report there is absolutely nothing humble about this station wagon. Humbl ing , to be sure, but this is certainly not your garden-variety wagon.
The numbers tell the story. Horsepower: 727. Torque: 737 lb-ft.
Zero to 100 km/h (62 mph): 3.6 seconds. Zero to 200 km/h (124 mph): 11.
1 seconds. All-electric, zero-emission range: approximately 38 kilometres (24 miles). Another notable aspect of the new M5 Touring’s story is, like its M5 sedan stablemate, it is a plug-in hybrid.
And that’s not a powerplant choice, but the only choice. That’s a gutsy move by BMW, especially in the case of the M5 sedan , arguably the German automaker’s halo vehicle of the last four decades and one known for its state-of-the-art internal-combustion engines. But skeptics will be convinced after driving the new M5 and its turbocharged 585-horsepower 4.
4-litre V8 working with a 197-horsepower electric motor. I certainly was. However, the biggest part of this vehicle’s story, at least for us Canadians, is that the 2025 M5 Touring is the first M5 Touring to ever be available in this country.
The new M5 Touring represents the third generation of this performance-bred wagon, with the first d.