CAR magazine UK reveals details, specs and pictures of the new all-electric BMW i5 executive saloon
Here’s another BMW estate – but this time you’re not looking at a new M5 Touring or a M3 Touring – buti5 Touring. Our spy photographers have snapped the forthcoming wagon testing a few times, and although the front looks exactly like its saloon counterpart, we’ll have to continue to wait to see the rear. In the meantime, here’s a few pictures of Munich’s next fast estate.
The i5 has the same footprint as the combustion engine 5-series, meaning it’s grown in every direction – it’s 93mm longer, 35mm wider and 24mm taller with a 20mm stretch in the wheelbase. The i5 also benefits from the aero trickery as the 5 , too, meaning a low-drag 0.23Cd coefficient.The i5 uses a lot of technology and design inspiration from the larger, and really rather opulent, i7 cockpit. BMW’s Curved Display, which debuted on the i4, returns with familiar 12.3-inch and 14.
The i5 M60 xDrive upgrades to four-wheel drive with twin e-motors and its 590bhp is punchy like a Porsche Taycan GTS, dropping the 0-62mph launch time to 3.8 seconds while the top speed rises to 143mph. The M60’s range on the WLTP test cycle is expected to be 282-320 miles.In both cases a model-specific lithium-ion battery pack with a usable 82.3kWh can be charged at up to 205kW, while a Max Range mode offers a limp-home safety net to boost range by 15-25 per cent.
The e-motors are familiar BMW fifth-generation hardware, controlled with the same kind of seamlessly integrated slip control logic as the latest– clever tech that juggles grip and slip so deftly I can’t feel it working on fast, neat laps in the M60.
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