Steven Perez

by Steven Perez

posted on January 31, 2025

The M5 gets electrified

The M5 has been the sports sedan since it hit the streets in the eighties. BMW’s enhanced 5 Series has always seemed to nail the balance between performance, comfort, and luxury, and that just-right package has made it a standard. Recent versions have gotten larger and more powerful than ever — BMW has introduced the M5’s newest generation for 2025, and it ratchets things up significantly in every department. Let’s look at Akop’s 2025 BMW M5 for our January car of the month.

2025 BMW M5
ENGINEHORSEPOWER0 to 60 MPHTOP SPEEDMILEAGE*DAILY PRICE*
4.4L V8717 hp3.4 sec190 mph17 mpg$245
ENGINEHP0 to 60
MPH
TOP
SPEED
MPG*DAILY
PRICE*
4.4L V8717 hp3.4 sec190 mph17 mpg$245

First, the elephant in the room. The internet has had much to say about the new M5’s immense weight. The sedan clocks in at nearly 5,400 pounds, which is many pounds. That slots it just between two Mazda Miatas put together and the Chevy Tahoe (that makes things clear, right?). And this additional weight is chiefly there because, for the first time, the BMW M5 is a hybrid.

The 2025 M5’s plug-in powertrain combines a twin-turbo 4.4L V8 with an electric motor, which together produce a mighty 717 horsepower — about 100 more over the previous M5. The on-road effect is that the electric motor fills in any power gaps between shifts, providing the kind of seamless acceleration you’d find in a fully electric car.

The other reason BMW has hybridized this new M5 is so that it’ll meet new emissions standards in important markets around the world. And meeting the new standards while improving power delivery is a neat trick the M5 has pulled off. Plus, it should be able to do 25 miles on electric-only mode for short trips around town.

Otherwise, the 2025 M5 keeps its focus on being the excellent all-round sports sedan drivers expect. It offers a wild number of customizable drive modes and settings to adjust shift speeds, throttle response, brake feel, traction control, and more, and then there are different hybrid and electric modes to adjust with for more efficient journeys.

It’s a whole lot to play around with, but even if you don’t want to bother with all that, you can sit back and enjoy the M5’s beautiful interior. As you’d expect, it’s loaded with tech, upscale materials, and colorful interior lighting, and it’s a good place to be sitting. The car is surely designed for hurling along the German Autobahn, so you won’t go wrong taking this bad boy for a long road trip anywhere. 

All in all, the 2025 M5 over-delivers in almost every area. Excess alone can get out of hand, but excess in every department makes for a sensible, well-balanced machine, and that’s what this is.


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Steven Perez

Steven Perez

Steven is an avid car guy and content maker at Turo. Between Golden State Warriors games he can be found getting lost somewhere in California.

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