The BMW i5 Touring comes with a nice design, a large luggage compartment – and one or two electric motors. The first electric station wagon has a slightly shorter range than the sedan and is only slightly more expensive.
MG5. Nine ET5 Touring. Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo. Peugeot E-308 SW and Opel Astra Sports Tourer Electric. And… Electric station wagons are another unusual thing in the automotive industry, but here in 2024, that is going to change. From Audi we can look forward to the A6 E-Tron Avant, and Volkswagen is launching its more practical version of the ID.7, the ID.7 Tourer.
BMW already said a long time ago that the new 5 Series Touring, the Germans’ large estate car, would come as an electric car in the new version, and now the time has come for the Germans to show it off. The new 5 Series Touring is available as a plug-in hybrid, as a diesel or petrol car – but most importantly of all as the all-electric i5 Touring.
BMW has created an elegant finish to its brand new station wagon, which actually puts the sedan version in the shade. The new 5 Touring may not be a wild and daring car in terms of design, but when it resembles its little brother the 3 Series Touring, you can’t go wrong.
Like the 5 Series sedan, the 5 Series Touring has also grown. It’s almost 10cm longer than the old one, so this is a big station wagon, one of the longest ever, measuring 506cm from bumper to bumper. But the extra centimeters have gone more to the electric powertrain than to the space conditions: the luggage compartment of 570 to 1,700 liters is the same that has space in the old Touring.
23 kilometers cut from the range – the additional price is only DKK 14,446.
Bilbasen has written a lot about the BMW i5 in the sedan version, and you can read about everything about battery size, equipment and interior in the articles we link to several places here in the text. Here we go straight for the differences in range and price between the i5 sedan and the new i5 Touring.
The new station wagon is available in the i5 eDrive40 Touring version with 340 hp, rear-wheel drive and a WLTP range of up to 558 kilometers. The Danish price for the basic edition Sport Line is DKK 605,000. The corresponding sedan costs only DKK 14,446 less (DKK 590,554), so it is cheap in this context to choose a station wagon.
The sedan version, like the Sport Line, has a range of 581 kilometers, so the more practical bodywork costs 23 kilometers on the range. Consumption for the sedan is 15.9 kWh/100 kilometers – the new Touring is 16.6 kWh.
The new station wagon is not available, at least not yet, in the new xDrive40 version with four-wheel drive and 400 hp, as the sedan does, but instead you can choose the fierce i5 M60 xDrive Touring with 601 hp, four-wheel drive and a range of 499 kilometers – and it costs DKK 1,102,000 against the sedan’s DKK 1,088,054 (price difference DKK 13,946). The sedan’s range is 16 kilometers better at 515 kilometers.
So far, only the 100 percent electric i5 Touring has Danish prices – and not the 5-series Touring as a plug-in hybrid or in versions exclusively with a petrol or diesel engine. It deals with, among other things, about the 520d Touring with four-cylinder diesel with 197 hp and the plug-in hybrids 530e Touring (299 hp) and 550e xDrive Touring (489 hp).
