Asian brands, EVs dominate 2025 Best Buy Awards
The 2025 Best By Awards, announced by Kelley Blue Book, reflect the rapidly shifting landscape of the automotive market not only in the USA, but also elsewhere.
- Industry News
- 17 April 2025
The next BMW 5 Series Sedan will soon be making its international debut. At the BMW Group’s annual conference is was announced that the 5 Series would also be available as an all-electric performance model from BMW M GmbH, to be launched in October this year.
More news is that the 2023 BMWi Touring, which is due to arrive in the spring of 2024, will be an all-electric model, competing in the estatecar segment.
What’s new?
For the first time ever, the BMW 5 Series will be offered in all-electric and plug-in hybrid variants as well as petrol and diesel variants with 48V mild hybrid technology.
The new 5 Series Sedan will, according to the manufacturer, be more dynamic and a lot more comfortable. The BMW Operating System, 8.5, with BMW Curved Display, innovative digital services and for the first time, a purely electric drive system, will all find their way into the new 5 Series.
Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, who announced details of the new 5 Series at the conference, indicated that a BMW M Performance model woud also be in the mix.
“The all-electric BMW i4 M50* shows how BMW blends dynamic performance and electric mobility to perfection,” Oliver said. “It was the best-selling BMW M model worldwide in 2022. A fully electric Performance model from BMW M GmbH will be included in the new BMW 5 Series Sedan line-up.”
The worldwide launch of the new BMW 5 Series Sedan will get underway in October 2023.
The 2025 Best By Awards, announced by Kelley Blue Book, reflect the rapidly shifting landscape of the automotive market not only in the USA, but also elsewhere.
Kia took the top honours for the second consecutive year when its all-electric compact crossover was named World Car of the Year during the New York International Auto Show in the USA this week.
The African Association of Automotive Manufacturers (AAAM) is strengthening its commitment to the industrialisation and development of Africa’s automotive sector with the establishment of a new regional office in Tunisia.
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