BMW launches its Neue Klasse platform, which is able to first underpin a 3 Collection-sized sedan that can debut in late 2025, it’s going to proceed to launch electrical and electrified fashions based mostly on its present CLAR platform. One such mannequin is the next-generation 5 Collection, additionally obtainable because the pure-electric i5, whose debut has now been confirmed for 2023.
This was introduced by BMW’s CEO, Oliver Zipse, throughout a latest quarterly name when he merely said, with out giving any further particulars, that
Subsequent yr, we can be electrifying one other core BMW-brand product: the 5 Collection.
Identical to the CEO of Mercedes-Benz lately did, Zipse additionally talked about that BMW has seen very sturdy demand for its new i4 and iX (pictured beneath), including that the corporate has by no means in its historical past had so many pre-orders. Apparently, the order books for the 2 aforementioned EVs, innovation drivers as BMW calls them, are full for a number of months.
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Zipse additionally mentions one other crucial new EV, the iX1, whose debut he confirms for the fourth quarter of 2022. It is going to be one other EV that’s constructed on a platform shared with ICE variants, in a lineup of electrical automobiles the place solely the flagship iX sits on a bespoke EV structure (one which previews however isn’t the 2025 Neue Klasse platform)
Subsequent yr’s i5 can be a bigger, extra comfy and opulent proposition in comparison with the sportier i4. No phrase on specs but, however what might curiosity some potential patrons is the truth that it is not going to have a polarizing design – there’s a good probability the brand new G60 can be a fantastic trying, understated BMW like a lot of the 5 Collection generations which have preceded it.
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It gained’t have an enormous pretend grille or surprisingly formed headlights and based mostly on what we will inform from spy photographs of camouflaged prototypes, it seems to be like a cultured (perhaps even barely uninteresting) sedan. It is possible for you to to inform the BEV i5 other than ICE variants by its absolutely closed grille, particular bumpers and wheels with blue accents, in addition to delicate badging throughout.
BMW has not confirmed whether it is making an electrical model of the 5 Collection Touring, the wagon, however we see no cause why it couldn’t be supplied. In response to an older report based mostly on unnamed insider sources from inside BMW, the producer will supply the i5 Touring as its first ever electrical wagon, however we’ve got thus far seen no Touring prototypes in any respect, so we will’t but make certain it’s going to occur.
