Manhart Unleashes A 900 HP BMW M5 Touring War Machine

The BMW M5 Touring is no slouch. Its twin-turbo V8 and electric motor combo already puts it in supercar territory, but German tuner Manhart looked at those numbers, shrugged and said, “Not enough.” The result is the Manhart MH5 900E, a fire-breathing estate car that cranks the dial all the way to 898 bhp and turns the family haulier into something that could genuinely terrify Lamborghini owners at the traffic lights. If you thought the standard M5 Touring was already a brute, buckle up, because Manhart just rewrote the rulebook.

Under that long bonnet, the 4.4-litre twin-turbo S68 V8 gets torn apart and rebuilt with serious intent. Out go the factory turbochargers, replaced by a pair of oversized, high-flow units that gulp air like a jet engine on full afterburner. Manhart bolts on its proprietary MHtronik powerbox to sharpen the engine’s brain, then lets the spent gases rip through race-spec downpipes into a full stainless steel exhaust. That exhaust is not just about flow, either. Valve control lets the driver flick between a hushed motorway murmur and a thunderous roar that announces your arrival from three postcodes away, all channelled through four brutish 4.5-inch matte black tailpipes. The numbers speak for themselves. The V8 alone now hammers out 758 bhp before the electric motor adds its contribution, meaning the engine on its own steamrolls the standard M5’s total combined output. Torque swells to a spine-compressing 885 lb-ft, enough to pin passengers to their seats and turn tyre smoke into a permanent weather feature.

With that kind of savage power on tap, the suspension needs to keep up, and Manhart delivers two sharp options. The first is a clean, no-fuss setup using H&R lowering springs that plant the car closer to the tarmac for a meaner stance. The second is for the perfectionists: a full KW Suspensions V4 coilover system loaded with external reservoirs and granular control over ride height, rebound damping and both high-speed and low-speed compression. Whether you want a comfortable continent-crusher or a track-day weapon, the hardware is there to match. Brakes stay factory-spec for now, but Manhart keeps upgraded stoppers on the shelf for drivers who like to use every last one of those horses.

Here is the real plot twist. Manhart barely touches the bodywork. The tuner openly admits that the M5 Touring already looks properly aggressive straight out of Munich, so it resists the urge to bolt on wild bumpers or carbon fibre splitters. Instead, the exterior gets nothing more than Manhart’s signature gold racing livery and a set of forged Concave One wheels wrapped in wider, grippier rubber. It is a masterclass in restraint. Step inside the cabin and you will find bespoke floor mats and a rich Alcantara headliner swapped in for BMW’s standard cloth, giving the cockpit a motorsport-inspired feel that matches the savage mechanicals beneath.

So, is this the most powerful estate car on the planet? Not quite, but the competition comes with caveats. Porsche’s Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo edges ahead on paper with 938 bhp, though that peak figure only lasts a few fleeting seconds during overboost before it dials back down. Then there is the Chinese Zeekr 001 FR, an all-electric wagon packing a monstrous 1,300 bhp with a chassis fine-tuned by former F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. But neither of those cars rumble to life with a twin-turbo V8, neither of them swallow a family’s holiday luggage quite like this, and neither of them looks this composed while doing it. The Manhart MH5 900E is not just fast. It is a full-blown statement that the combustion-powered super estate is alive, kicking and absolutely refusing to go quietly.