Dingolfing. A couple of days in the past, BMW M GmbH unveiled the brand new BMW M5 (Vitality consumption, weighted, mixed: 1,7 – 1,6 l/100 km [166.2 – 176.6 mpg imp] and 25,5 – 25,0 kWh/100 km based on WLTP; CO2 emissions, weighted, mixed: 39 – 37 g/km based on WLTP; gasoline consumption with discharged battery: 10,3 – 10,2 l/100 km [27.4 – 27.7 mpg imp] based on WLTP; CO2 lessons: weighted, mixed B, with discharged battery G) and launched the primary official footage. Right this moment, the brand new high-performance sedan celebrated its official begin of manufacturing at BMW Group Plant Dingolfing. The seventh-generation BMW M5 is the primary to come back off the meeting line with an electrified drive prepare: The model-specific M HYBRID system combines a V8 engine with an e-drive to ship a system output of 727 hp, enabling it to dash from 0 to 100 in simply 3.5 seconds. The car’s high-voltage battery, with an obtainable vitality content material of 18.6 kWh, affords an electrical vary of 67 to as much as 69 kilometres (WLTP) that’s distinctive amongst its opponents.
“We’re proud to be constructing the newest era of the enduring M5 right here in Dingolfing,” says Plant Director Christoph Schröder. The location already delivered the pre-assembled our bodies for the very first BMW M5 fashions, again within the Eighties, which have been then accomplished by hand at M GmbH in Garching. For the reason that second era – or, to be extra actual, 1988 – the high-performance sports activities automotive has been constructed solely on the plant in Decrease Bavaria.
Central parts for the brand new BMW M5 are additionally produced on web site or equipped by close by element crops. Schröder refers to this as an “beneath on roof manufacturing strategy”. For instance, the chassis of the BMW M5, specifically tailor-made to the mannequin, comes from Dingolfing element plant 02.10, whereas the high-voltage battery is assembled subsequent door at plant 02.20, the Competence Centre for E-Drive Manufacturing. The carbon-fibre roof is equipped by the plant in Landshut, situated 30 kilometres away.
A singular facet of manufacturing on the car plant is the modifications already made within the physique store. Based mostly on the BMW 5 Sequence commonplace manufacturing physique, the BMW M5 options extra measures to stiffen the physique construction and a specifically widened physique with flared wheel arches, thus additionally enabling the mixing of the M-specific rear axle.
Within the paint store, clients can select between ten commonplace and 150 special-request finishes for his or her new BMW M5.
The brand new BMW M5, like its predecessor, is assembled alongside different BMW 5 Sequence, BMW 4 Sequence and BMW M4 fashions on the identical manufacturing line, the place it’s accomplished with particular tools choices, such because the CFRP rear spoiler, M steering wheel and M multifunction seats.
Over the approaching weeks, manufacturing on the plant will regularly ramp as much as a number of dozen BMW M5 autos per day. The European market launch of the brand new mannequin is scheduled to get underway from 2 November 2024. By then, one other new mannequin will already be celebrating its premiere at Plant Dingolfing: the brand new BMW M5 Touring, which expands the BMW M GmbH providing and completes the brand new BMW 5 Sequence vary.