The seventh-generation BMW M5, codenamed G90, is by far and away probably the most controversial – and contemplating the historical past of the hotted-up 5 Collection, that’s saying one thing. It’s the primary to characteristic a plug-in hybrid powertrain, which not solely provides important complexity but additionally a heaping quantity of mass.
Positive, the ability and efficiency figures make for some gorgeous studying. The S68 4.4 litre twin-turbocharged V8, allied to an electrical motor built-in within the ZF eight-speed automated transmission, makes a sum whole of 727 PS and a whopping 1,000 Nm of torque.
With M xDrive all-wheel drive, this behemoth flings itself to 100 km/h in simply 3.5 seconds and, due to the M Driver’s Bundle that’s customary in Malaysia, hits a high velocity of 305 km/h. Paradoxically, it can also drive in totally electrical mode for as much as 69 km on the WLTP cycle.
However the G90 additionally now weighs half a tonne greater than the outgoing F90, tipping the scales at a scarcely plausible 2,510 kg. To present you a way of perspective, the M5 is now nearer to the three,500 kg weight restrict of a Class D driver’s licence than it’s to the unique E28 M5’s featherweight 1,430 kg.
It’s the expertise behind the wheel that issues most of all, nonetheless, so regardless of the whole lot pushing towards it, can the brand new M5 – which, by the way in which, now prices a staggering RM1,188,800 – nonetheless ship the prerequisite thrills? Yours actually finds out on the roads in Munich, as you possibly can watch within the video evaluation above.
GALLERY: G90 BMW M5 in Malaysia
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