Ever get the sense that an automaker is just sort of crossing its fingers and hoping for the best? This feels like one of those times. The (deep breath for full official name) 2025 BMW M5 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance #1/1 will officially be the first G90 M5 sold in North America, it will supposedly be the only one ever painted Frozen Orange metallic, and it’ll undoubtedly weigh more than a Ford F-150. To quote the great John Phillips, “Some look at things that are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why this?’”
Yes, it may be early days for the new M5, but its legacy is shaping up to be one of pudginess. With a curb weight of 5,368 pounds, it tips the scales 427 pounds heavier than a four-wheel-drive crew cab F-150, 540 pounds more than a Tesla Model S Plaid, and 288 pounds more than a crew cab, 4×4, 5.3-liter V8-powered Chevrolet Silverado RST. While technologies like four-wheel-steering are amazing, the M5 is still the big boy of the super sedan segment, and the internet likely won’t ever let BMW forget it. So, how about a bit of orange, yeah?
This is not the BMW with the longest name, because that would be the BMW Individual M760i xDrive Model V12 Excellence THE NEXT 100 YEARS, but it is the only M5 slated to be made in this low-sheen shade of orange. See, BMW was phasing the color out, possibly due to lack of demand, but had enough left over to paint exactly one M5 body weeks prior to starting actual series production of the new car. It’s an imposing color, and one that plays well with the visual and physical heft of the brand’s latest super sedan.
Oh, and the orange doesn’t stop at the paint — the BMW M5 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance #1/1’s orange and silver leather is striking to say the least. It’s a similar deal with the pinstriping on the alloy wheels, the printing on the headrests, and the custom inlaid trim. BMW claims that more than $57,000 in custom options were added to the M5 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance #1/1, which works out to around $1,727.28 per extra character in the vehicle’s name over a standard M5. It’s also one of only a handful of cars with an apostrophe, a number sign, and a forward stroke in its name. Possibly the only one.
However, there is a catch to all of this, other than driving around in what everyday people will assume is a Spalding basketball-themed M5. Just because the BMW M5 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance #1/1, a name I’ll be repeating as much as possible throughout this article due to the gratuitous absurdity of it, will be the first G90 M5 sold in North America doesn’t mean the winning bidder won’t have to wait. Delivery is expected to happen this September, and given that U.S. deliveries of regular G90 M5s are expected to happen in the fourth quarter of this year, that doesn’t give the winning bidder much headway. Sure, they’ll be first, but for how long?
As you would probably expect by the name, the 2025 BMW M5 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance #1/1 will be auctioned off by Gooding & Co. at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, America’s fanciest car event, with all proceeds above MSRP going to the Pebble Beach Company Foundation, because charitable donations are often part of how these brand new car auctions work. So, will it fetch its MSRP? I guess we’ll just have to wait a few weeks to find out, and you can bet that we’ll be on the ground live for however this experiment goes. Of all the ways to celebrate Monterey Car Week, this is one of them.
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So who’s been a worse designer for BMW, current guy Domagoj Dukec or everyone’s favorite Chris Bangle?
Is “Domagoj” Balkan for “demagogue?”
If so, how apropos.
As the owner of a NA Miata, I am terrified that I am sharing the road with this behemoth
Does it come with an included Hoobastank CD? BMW certainly is crawling in the dark these days.
I wonder if all the added weight was BMW trying to add turn signals with the same inefficiency of malaise era emissions systems. It is uncharted water for them, after all.
It is heavy because it needs to be. Every car will be from now on, unless we discover a way to store eletricity in air or give up life on earth by burning more fuels. I know we have alternatives, but the money is being put in this trend, so it is better to get used to it.
Probably they already have the Competition or GTS pack in the oven, outputting 1000+ HPs thru multiple eletric motors + ICE, than weight won’t matter that much. At least for speed, handling is another problem but they will figure it out.
Instead, let’s focus that BMW’s current design language is just ugly. Not even in Frozen Orange they were able to capture nice pics. They had to use low light to hide its ugliness.
Prboably we won’t see a nice production BMW until 2030, and as car enthusiast, I believe that this is heavier issue.
You’re acting like there aren’t already EV, ICE, and Hybrid options on the market already. All of them SUBSTANTIALLY lighter. It’s heavier than a Plaid, it’s 500lbs heavier than an Ioniq 5 N.
It’s heavier than a full frame half ton 4×4, ffs.
I’ll take a v8 while I can still get it, regardless of the weight.
The pickups you refer to do not meet European regs on city centers, not that anyone would try to enter a european city center with a full size pickup.
The next m3 will be pure ev. It’ll weigh less, and no longer have ice and be a nice road trip car
Why wouldn’t they try to enter a European city center? Is it so ungainly large that it becomes incredibly difficult to navigate? If they’re so large and unwieldy compared to the M5, WHY ARE THEY SO MUCH LIGHTER?!
Got me a Beemer it’s as big as a whale and it can’t flick it’s tail. Got me a Beemer it sits my money gtubbin honey so hurry up .1% and bring your ill gotten money.
I just want that Shack of Love
This car deserves all the bad fat jokes of the ‘90s and ‘00s that never should have been directed at human beings.
So fat shaming by proxy is OK?
OK then. Be careful in traffic around one of these, it has enough gravity to pull adjoining vehicles out of their lane.
Shout out your bmdouchness. Not a chance in hell.
Hmmm, BMW creamsicle edition!
Wasnt the Pontiac G8 initially released in a very similar launch color? I’m getting strong similarity vibes there
Totally a Dubya-era Pontiac color. Grand Prix, Matrix, G6, Solstice, yup.
The G8s in the ads were all black IIRC, but yes there was a burnt orange color available.
Ironically, my SS is orange.
Dammit! I can’t believe BMW guessed my password.
BMW lost it’s way a looong time ago.
How do you make an M5 weigh that much?! I Does it have like a literal metric ton of sound deadening? 100KWh of lead-acid batteries? Tungsten wheels?
Seriously, I don’t understand how a sports sedan powered by a gas engine weighs more than a goddamn electric car.
Blame the balance of performance.
I’m pretty sure they just plopped a sedan body on a lowered XM chassis to save money on development. If the M5 is based on the XM and the XM is based on the Gerald R. Ford nuclear-powered carrier, the M5 is bound to gain a few pounds. That’s just what happens with platform-sharing.
I wish they had kept the ability to launch a compliment of F-35C “Fat Amy” in the conversion, but I understand there are trademark overlaps with the United States of America’s Navy, and a steam catapult would cut into touch screen area.
COTD
What the spit?!? How is that 900 lbs heavier than my BEV?
5400 lbs is what my 80 series weighs loaded up for a week long overland trip.
Cant imagine turning the thing. Must really eat tires and brakes to attempt to pretend it can turn.
Makes me just love lightweight cars even more knowing less out there can hang in a corner without double the tire tread width.
I rock 165s on aluminum 14inch rims that weigh 13lbs with Aluminum Calipers and out handle these heavy beasts all day long because my car is 1700lbs.
If I took my 1997 Ford Econoline…took out any cargo, and stepped out of it…it would weigh about 20 pounds less than this.
And you could live in that down by the river!
This had to be the result of a private bet between two marketing VPs.
Know what? I’m so good I can paint an elephant orange and sell it above MSRP!
That’s not fair to elephants and oranges! God, I love a good orange paint job.
At this weight does it even matter to sell it? You can buy any electric car and it’s going to be lighter and faster. The only justification to buy it are the vroom-vroom sounds which can be provided by much lighter options.
The E39 M5 is,spinning in its grave.
The E60 M5 bearings are spinning in their graves
Bravo
2025 BMW M5 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance #1/1
As the previous owner of a 1993 Oldsmobile Delta Ninety-Eight Regency Elite, I’m developing a slight case of alphanumeric character envy.
Do you have #hashtag envy?
5,400 godforsaken pounds
THIS THING WEIGHS APPROXIMATELY TWO KONA Ns.
It’s two Datsun 280Z.
It’s TEN R1300GS’s (BMW’s better plus-sized flagship).
Did I miss why it was so heavy?
Is it packing 100kWh of batteries in addition to a V8 or something?
I’m struggling to understand how it could be so heavy, as a supposed performance sedan.
There is no reason for it to weigh more than many full sized SUVs, it’s just lazy engineering and Ze Germans continuing to live under the collective delusion that you can just add more power and make weight irrelevant. There’s also no reason for the RS6 Avant to weigh 5,000 pounds, the new C63 to weigh nearly 5,000, etc.
If they cut out all the stupid tech shit they’re trying to beat us over the head with they’d probably save 500 pounds off of all those cars…but even then they’d still be obese.
I understand that it’s because it is a sedan built on BMW’s new hybrid SUV platform. Just like Cadillac building a sedan on the Ultium platform from the Silverado EV and Hummer EV.
Basically, lazy bad engineering.
An X5 M is less than 100 pounds heavier than this. A full size performance SUV that can be equipped to seat 7.
I think it’s the XM platform, given that it’s the XM drivetrain. The XM is noticeably bigger and heavier than the X5.
Whew, talk about Orange Crush. If I put a coin in the road and the M5 runs it over, will it be smushed flat, like with a train?
I love the color, just not the giant porker that’s wearing it!
Why stop at MSRP? They should aim for a dollar for every character in the name, or if the bidding is really going hot, every pound it weighs.
If my calculations are correct that’s only like 5000 dollars, which is a steal