What quite a lot of gearheads may not remember is that there was a time when the Volkswagen Group went absolutely crazy with ...

In 2023, we published a story about what many believed to be the last remaining W10 engine built by Volkswagen ... and one is stuffed in an E39-generation BMW M5-based test mule.

This specific engine, gearbox and all-wheel-drive set-up appeared in the M5 first, but has now spread to the BMW M8 and X5M/X6M twins. Many of the Competition’s upgrades have been concentrated ...

We don’t know if BMW was planning on downsizing the M5’s engine, but it must have been on one of the early whiteboards. Keeping the V8 alive and augmenting it with electricity via a 194bhp e ...

ABU DHABI – Make way for the newest, baddest BMW M5. Make lots of ... build-up of a combustion-engine car. There is still an engine nestled under the M5’s long bonnet, of course – a 577hp ...

Enter the heaviest M5 sedan to date ... internal combustion engine and electric drive unit are 717 horsepower and 738 pound-feet (1,000 Newton-meters) of twist. Although BMW uses an M-specific ...

BMW has only made an estate ... and the chassis in the new M5 Touring. The latest M5’s PHEV system combines a twin-turbocharged 4.4-litre V8 engine with a sizeable plug-in hybrid module.

Except to hear the engine that is... What about the M5's mighty kerb weight. Have BMW's engineers managed to conceal it? Well, yes – mostly. By fitting bespoke tyres, adaptive suspension and the ...