Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
➡️The first X5’s combination of sports sedan agility and SUV space and ride height blew the market wide open when it debuted in 1999. Now the fifth-get SUV is here to shake things up all over again with crisp Neue Klasse design and more powertrain variety than ever, including BEV and hydrogen options.
Naturally the smaller iX3 that dropped last fall lends plenty of Neue Klasse design cues, including the clean surfacing and visor-like face. But BMW’s designers did far more than simply punch out a 120 percent iX3. The X5 brings its own ideas, like the new double-X LED light icons and exterior door handle tabs built into the pillars.
Inside you get door-to-door ambient lighting plus genuine slate trim on the center console as part of the optional Clear and Bold package. Every X5 comes with a panoramic glass roof and a version of the Panoramic iDrive display system we first saw on the iX3. The core elements are a centrally-mounted 17.9-inch tablet, a pillar-to-pillar digital display at the base of the windshield and 3D head-up-display. You can also option a 14.6-inch front passenger screen for streaming movies on the move.
Kicking things off on the ICE side as before is the rear-drive X5 40 and its xDrive, all-wheel drive brother. Each SUV’s engine bay is home to a turbocharged 3.0 liter inline six making 394 hp (400 PS) and 428 lb-ft (580 Nm) of torque, helped along by a 48V mild hybrid system.
Want a plug-in hybrid instead? The X5 50e AWD pairs that same inline six with a 194 hp (197 PS) electric motor for a combined - and unchanged vs MY26 - 483 hp (490 PS) and 516 lb-ft (700 Nm). It'll do 0 to 60 in the same 4.6 seconds as before, but can run up to 44 miles (71 km) instead of 39 miles (63 km) on electric power alone, because the battery is upsized from 19.2 kWh to 26.5 kWh.
But the headline act is the first ever BMW iX5, the brand's first fully electric X5. The iX5 60 AWD uses two motors for a combined 570 hp (578 PS) and 593 lb-ft (804 Nm), sprinting to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds. Not bad, but it’s how far the X5 can go, rather than how fast it gets there that’s the real showstopper here. BMW estimate the EPA range at a impressive 435 miles (700 km) thanks to a massive 144 kWh battery built from taller versions of the same clever cylindrical cells used in the iX3.
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➡️The first X5’s combination of sports sedan agility and SUV space and ride height blew the market wide open when it debuted in 1999. Now the fifth-get SUV is here to shake things up all over again with crisp Neue Klasse design and more powertrain variety than ever, including BEV and hydrogen options.
Naturally the smaller iX3 that dropped last fall lends plenty of Neue Klasse design cues, including the clean surfacing and visor-like face. But BMW’s designers did far more than simply punch out a 120 percent iX3. The X5 brings its own ideas, like the new double-X LED light icons and exterior door handle tabs built into the pillars.
Inside you get door-to-door ambient lighting plus genuine slate trim on the center console as part of the optional Clear and Bold package. Every X5 comes with a panoramic glass roof and a version of the Panoramic iDrive display system we first saw on the iX3. The core elements are a centrally-mounted 17.9-inch tablet, a pillar-to-pillar digital display at the base of the windshield and 3D head-up-display. You can also option a 14.6-inch front passenger screen for streaming movies on the move.
Kicking things off on the ICE side as before is the rear-drive X5 40 and its xDrive, all-wheel drive brother. Each SUV’s engine bay is home to a turbocharged 3.0 liter inline six making 394 hp (400 PS) and 428 lb-ft (580 Nm) of torque, helped along by a 48V mild hybrid system.
Want a plug-in hybrid instead? The X5 50e AWD pairs that same inline six with a 194 hp (197 PS) electric motor for a combined - and unchanged vs MY26 - 483 hp (490 PS) and 516 lb-ft (700 Nm). It'll do 0 to 60 in the same 4.6 seconds as before, but can run up to 44 miles (71 km) instead of 39 miles (63 km) on electric power alone, because the battery is upsized from 19.2 kWh to 26.5 kWh.
But the headline act is the first ever BMW iX5, the brand's first fully electric X5. The iX5 60 AWD uses two motors for a combined 570 hp (578 PS) and 593 lb-ft (804 Nm), sprinting to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds. Not bad, but it’s how far the X5 can go, rather than how fast it gets there that’s the real showstopper here. BMW estimate the EPA range at a impressive 435 miles (700 km) thanks to a massive 144 kWh battery built from taller versions of the same clever cylindrical cells used in the iX3.
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