2025 German Car of the Year: The all-new BMW 5 Series wins the annual award again.

The new generation BMW 5 Series successfully stood out from the competition among 40 professional judges. It defeated its competitors with its superior dynamic handling, comfort during long-distance driving, functional space utilization and powerful digital innovative technology, and won the German Car of the Year 2025 award.

Taipei---By creating and breaking through the deadlock, BMW has created innovative works that surpass its contemporaries with classic ideas and redefined the outline of mid-to-large luxury business sedans for the world. The new generation BMW 5 Series showcases a body that perfectly combines sportiness with luxury and comfort. At the same time, it has created a new and first-of-its-kind BMW i5 pure electric luxury sedan for the automotive industry, creating a new situation in the luxury brand electric energy market and establishing an unshakable leadership position for BMW in the luxury electric energy field. The all-new BMW 5 Series has continued to achieve outstanding performance around the world since its launch at the end of 2023. It has not only won the UK Car of the Year 2024 , the UK Luxury Brand Electric Car of the Year 2024 and the 2024 World Car Awards , but has also recently been recognized by the German market and won the German Car of the Year 2025 First Choice Award. After two rounds of testing and selection by a panel of 40 experienced professional judges, the all-new BMW The 5 Series successfully stood out from 150 candidate models. It defeated its competitors with its superior dynamic handling, comfort during long-distance driving, highly functional space utilization and BMW's powerful digital innovation technology, and successfully won the German Car of the Year 2025 German Car of the Year Award. Jochen Goller, Director of Customer Brands and Sales Management of the BMW Group , said when receiving the award: "The new generation BMW 5 Series won the German Car of the Year 2025 , which proves that the BMW brand's consumer-oriented strategy has been recognized. Whether it is a pure electric car or a traditional internal combustion engine model, the new generation BMW 5 Series can flexibly meet the needs of different consumers and always keep up with consumers' preferences."

The new generation BMW 5 Series is a flagship model that combines elegance and sportiness. It uses a neat approach to carve out the perfect proportions that are exclusive to mid-to-large luxury sedans. The cabin space of the 5 Series is given more energy with a thinking that breaks away from the framework. It reconstructs the top-level thinking and presents a new suspended curved screen composed of a 12.3- inch virtual digital instrument and a 14.9- inch central control touch screen. The BMW cabin surround light curtain in the cabin is a driver-oriented cabin interface that surrounds technology and the future as if it is a dreamland. It combines BMW Operating System 8.5 , AR augmented reality navigation function, BMW Mobile Digital Key 2.0 and the highest-specification new-generation BMW Personal CoPilot intelligent driving assistance technology define the luxurious cabin atmosphere with unparalleled smart technology that surpasses the contemporary era. Add to that the top-level crystal center console kit, M Nappa leather flat-bottom steering wheel, BMW Individual Merino leather, luxury four-zone air conditioning, panoramic glass roof and a Bowers & Wilkins premium audio system with 18 speakers and a maximum power of 655W , and create a feast-like cabin atmosphere.

BMW is best known for its exciting driving experience, and the new generation BMW 5 Series takes this all-round driving experience to the peak. It also incorporates the crystallization of BMW's time-honored electric technology. It not only launched the first pure electric luxury sedan BMW i5 , but also provides two power options: i5 eDrive40 M Sport and i5 M60 xDrive . The fifth-generation eDrive electric technology creates a maximum horsepower output of 601 horsepower for the BMW i5 and an amazing performance of 0-100km/h acceleration in just 3.8 seconds. The maximum cruising range can reach 582km* , creating a new generation of electric driving fun that is difficult for competitors to match with advanced technology. For consumers who like traditional fuel vehicles, the 520i M Sport and the more powerful 530i M Sport , which adopt the new generation BMW TwinPower Turbo double-vortex turbocharged engine, can output a maximum horsepower of 258 , coupled with 48V high-efficiency composite power technology and Steptronic eight-speed manual transmission, 0-100km/h acceleration can be completed in just 6.2 seconds, and full power output can be generated at low speeds, while bringing a quiet low-speed driving process and excellent energy-saving performance, creating an excellent performance driving and comfort, showing the powerful strength of the new generation BMW 5 Series that is difficult to shake and surpass. In order to meet consumers' expectations and allow them to own the new generation BMW 5 Series in a diverse and easy way , BMW's general agent Pan-Derby has launched a super-low interest installment discount of 1.5 million for 48 periods and a 3- year lease gift discount plan to cater to consumers who love the driving charm of BMW mid-to-large luxury sedans.