This enigmatic BMW blurred the lines between luxury sedan and performance beast. Though it was forgotten too soon.

Should the four-door sedan one day go the way of the dinosaur and its history written in full, there’s liable to be a whole chapter on the BMW M5. The high-performance version of the 5 Series has, ...

Thirty-eight years ago, the Germans opened a Pandora’s box so unsatiable it continues to consume generations of cars to this day, and there is no stopping it. In 1985, the first of BMW’s M5 machines ...

Welcome to our latest series of Retro Reviews that take us back in time through the BMW M performance division’s history. This review of a 1988 BMW M5 will be the first of several classic BMW M car ...

For a certain subset of car geeks, this is a hallowed day: The 2025 BMW M5 Touring, a full-blood performance station wagon, is coming to the U.S. This is only the third time in the M5’s nearly 40-year ...

After decades of delivering prodigious amounts of conventional V8 power, BMW's flagship M5 performance sedan—a high-performance version of the 5 Series four-door—will soon receive electrification ...

Last summer, BMW unveiled the current M5, adding a hybrid powertrain to the model for the first time in its 40-year history. As the most powerful iteration in M5 history, it's not exactly in need of ...