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BMW M5 PHEV 2024 review: The most explosive M-saloon yet … but is a plug-in hybrid right?

Published 24 October 2024
By Neil Briscoe
Yes, it’s alarmingly heavy, but the new BMW M5 punches with astonishing ferocity and still manages to feel balanced and lively in the corners.
BMW unveils new plug-in hybrid M5 Touring

Plug-in hybrid BMW M5 Touring revealed

Just a couple of months after revealing the new M5, BMW has unveiled the hybrid supersaloon’s estate-bodied stablemate at Monterey Car Week.
Published 15 August 2024
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New BMW M5 is a 717bhp plug-in hybrid supersaloon

The BMW M5 is powered by a plug-in hybrid system for the first time as the seventh generation of the supersaloon is unveiled.
Published 25 June 2024
BMW M Driving Experience review - Will Dron meets Colin Turkington, BTCC champion

What's a BMW M track driving experience like?

Want to be a circuit legend in the mould of BTCC champion Colin Turkington? A BMW M experience is a thrilling way to hone your skills.
Published 14 November 2020
Audi e-tron SUV, September 2018

The best new cars launching in 2018

With new car registrations dipping in 2017 for the first time in six years, as consumer confidence takes a hit, car makers are having to...
Published 05 January 2018
Reader Letters: Motorway investment, premium fuels, dash cam crash for cash and Ford GT

Reader Letters: Motorway investment, premium fuels

"Driving the length of Britain on our dreadfully undermaintained motorway network got me wondering: are we really spending £60bn on the HS2..."
Published 23 October 2017
Me and My Motor: Mark Webber, former F1 and sports car racer

Me and My Motor: Mark Webber

"People associate me with four wheels, but I grew up on two,” says Mark Webber, the Australian former Formula One driver...
Published 02 May 2017
Jeremy Clarkson's Five-Star Cars — Part 2: 2009-2015

Clarkson's Five-Star Cars — Part 2: 2009-2015

There’s no secret formula for getting a five-star review from Jeremy Clarkson. He just has to love the car. But as the final instalment of our special...
Published 17 August 2015
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News: Lexus takes on the BMW M5 with new GS F super-saloon

Is Lexus having some sort of midlife crisis? One moment it is launching save-the-planet petrol-electric hybrids; the next it is partying with will.i.am...
Published 07 January 2015
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News: Are these the most unreliable cars in the UK?

It has the heart of a BMW M5, the bones of an Audi RS 6 and the breath of a Seat Alhambra. No, this isn't one of Jeremy Clarkson's cheese-fuelled...
Published 30 October 2014
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News: 290 drivers nabbed in two days as police target...

Drivers on the M5 last week will have been forgiven for thinking the chancellor George Osborne had found some spare change under the Treasury’s...
Published 08 October 2014
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News: The Good Life comes to the motorway with opening...

For years they’ve been the go-to place for fast-food but a new service station has opened on the M5 in Gloucestershire selling only fresh food and...
Published 08 May 2014
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News: BMW celebrates 30 years of M5 with its fastest-ever...

The BMW M5 is 30 years old this year and to celebrate, the car maker has launched not only its fastest-ever M5 but also its fastest-ever production...
Published 08 May 2014