BMW on Monday confirmed {that a} new M5 Touring is within the works, solely the third after the E34 M5 Touring of the late Nineteen Eighties/early ’90s and E60 M5 Touring of the ’00s.

The automaker additionally launched the primary photographs of a camouflaged prototype that’s set to begin testing in public within the coming days. The debut is locked in for 2024. That is additionally when the brand new M5 sedan is more likely to debut.

Whereas the prototype could look just like check autos for a deliberate wagon physique fashion for the redesigned 2024 BMW 5-Sequence, signature M clues such because the pumped up fenders, quad-exhaust suggestions, and huge wheel and brake bundle verify it as an M5 Touring.

BMW a 12 months in the past launched its first M3 Touring, and the boss of the BMW M efficiency division, Frank van Meel, in an interview that 12 months teased an M5 Touring may be a part of it will definitely.

2024 BMW i5

The redesigned 5-Sequence sedan was revealed in Could and begins gross sales later this 12 months as a 2024 mannequin. Whereas its M5 sedan variant ought to attain the U.S., it is not clear whether or not the identical will probably be true for the M5 Touring. The M3 Touring has already been dominated off-limits for this market. Mercedes-Benz not presents an AMG E 63 wagon within the U.S., although Audi nonetheless presents its RS 6 Avant right here.

BMW will go the hybrid route for its subsequent M5, and the powertrain is more likely to pair a turbocharged 4.4-liter V-8 with a single electrical motor for a mixed output of greater than 700 hp. The identical setup options within the 2023 XM SUV, and delivers 738 hp within the range-topping XM Label Purple grade.

Efficiency followers with a penchant for electrical energy even have an possibility with the brand new 5-Sequence. BMW M has developed an i5 M60 xDrive grade, which BMW will provide in Touring wagon guise beginning subsequent spring (although seemingly not within the U.S.). The i5 M60 xDrive grade incorporates a dual-motor all-wheel-drive powertrain producing a peak of 590 hp.