{"id":30615,"date":"2022-09-01T17:09:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=30615"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:09:43","slug":"bmw-i5-touring-us-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=30615","title":{"rendered":"Should a BMW i5 Touring Come to the U.S. Market?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the short answer: yes. The BMW i5 Touring<\/a> should come to the U.S. Will it, though? That\u2019s far more uncertain but, given what we know about BMW\u2019s future U.S. lineup, it\u2019s certainly a possibility.<\/p>\n

We already know that the BMW i5 sedan is coming to the \u2018States, which wasn\u2019t necessarily a given. Here in America, we don\u2019t always get cool electric BMWs. We didn\u2019t get the BMW iX3 and we aren\u2019t getting the iX1<\/a>, for some inexplicable reason. The i5, though, we\u2019re going to get and we should see it next year. When it does debut, it will be based on the next-gen 5 Series, on the updated CLAR platform, and will share its styling.<\/p>\n

Another car the U.S. market is getting, which is genuinely shocking, is the BMW M5 Touring<\/a>. That isn\u2019t a typo and you didn\u2019t read that wrong. A proper M5 wagon is coming to the \u2018States for the first time in history. There have been M5 wagons before but they always stayed east of the Atlantic, never making their way to the U.S. Now, we\u2019re going to be getting one and we couldn\u2019t be more excited about it.<\/p>\n

With the introduction of the M5 Touring, and the BMW i5, would it make sense to bring the i5 Touring here to America? Obviously, I think it would make sense. Then again, I\u2019m a massive wagon fan and want all the wagons. However, from a practical standpoint, the i5 Touring would be more spacious and usable for families, which are exactly the sorts of people that will be buying i5s. And since BMW is going to homologate the body style for the U.S. anyway, it makes sense to make use of it and offer an all-electric version.<\/p>\n