The enemy within

With its heft and its hybrid powertrain, the latest M5 has been divisive from day one. Will living with one help us understand it?

HYBRID, HUMUNGOUS AND HEINOUSLY HEAVY, the G99 M5 Touring and its G90 saloon sibling have not exactly been welcomed with fully open arms. But the latest M5 is far from the first M product to spark con

It gives me no pleasure to say it, but the only true BMW M car of recent times to which I’ve felt a proper connection is the baby of them all, the M2. As an alternative to a Porsche Cayman for those i

This is our first look at the radical new electric BMW X5, which has surfaced in range-topping M guise ahead of its launch next year to preview Munich’s answer to the Lotus Eletre and upcoming Porsche

The plug-in hybrid renaissance continues. What was once merely a transition technology apparently now represents, in the words of Audi boss Gernot Döllner, “the best of both worlds”. Which makes the n

Let’s get the (not quite so) obvious bits out of the way first: 2165mm, 1720kg and 576bhp. No, those aren’t the headline specs of the new Smart #5 but the differences in overall length, kerb weight an