The hybridized powertrain packs on the pounds, but while this is the chunkiest M5 sedan yet, it's also the most powerful.

The M5 sedan and Touring are virtually identical. But the wagon is a more interesting proposition—for a few reasons. If you're expecting to hear that driving the 2025 BMW M5 Touring is patently different than driving the M5 sedan,

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.

It's heavy, it's mean, and despite its plug-in hybrid status, not all that efficient. But we'll be damned if it isn't capable.

Finally.BMW has built a long-roof M5 just two times before this, the 2025 M5 Touring.The first was the E34 generation of the early ‘90s, a rarity (just 891 units) that also marked an end of an era: the last hand-built M car.

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,

Perhaps the 2025 BMW M5 is heavy for a sedan, but the Touring—that's pronounced "wagon"—doesn't weigh much more, so think of it as a 717-hp SUV, and its estimated 5550-pound curb weight doesn't seem that bad. The 2025 BMW M5 Touring is the first M5 wagon to make it to the U.S. market.

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,