Monday 23rd November 2009

BMW 5-Series: Live PistonHeads Reveal

See the reveal of BMW's new saloon at 7pm

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These are the first official pictures of the all-new BMW 5-series, which you can see revealed 'live' on PistonHeads this evening.

The online event is scheduled for 7pm GMT tonight (8pm Central European Time), and the video feed will be viewable in the forum thread below this article.

As you can see from the teasers pics revealed in advance of the big event, the new 5's nose has more than a hint of the latest 7-series about it. In fact the new model is reportedly based on the same cut-down version of the 7-series platform that underpins the new BMW 5-series GT.

Of more interest to PHers perhaps, will be the news that BMW is already well advanced on the next M5 - which will apparently get a version of the twin-turbo V8 from the X6M.

[RacingPete]

The live feed of the reveal will be in this first post at 7pm UK time, check back then!

[MrTappets]

You can ben it will be fat, awkward and completely unimaginative. Why can't we have stuff with the shark-like muscle of the 8-series any more?

[UncappedTag]

Looks boring before they even unveil the whole car.

[CHIEF]

Looks great and will sell like hot cakes!

[AndyBe]

UncappedTag said:

Looks boring before they even unveil the whole car.

My thoughts exactly.

[Mafioso]

Why are they bringing that really flat front into the range? It's hideous, can't be good for aerodynamics or pedestrian safety?

Don't think I'll be watching somehow...

[Staffy1984]

AndyBe said:

UncappedTag said:

Looks boring before they even unveil the whole car.

My thoughts exactly.

+ 1

[hardmouse1]

Well could the BMW be converted to a long coupe? 3 doors are the way forward

[TheArchitect]

bmw styling really is lost at the moment, its so dull and plain!

[tomwoodis]

oh wow, I can hardly contain my excitment!

Me thinks the styling budget on this one may have been subjest to some cost cutting.

[REESER]

Lets hope the new BMW M5 is something very special as this sneak view of the 5er looks pretty dull IMO.

[posterboy]

Staffy1984 said:

AndyBe said:

UncappedTag said:

Looks boring before they even unveil the whole car.

My thoughts exactly.

+ 1

Is it not a sin on PH to dislike BMW?

[adycav]

So much negativity already.

I for one think that it looks pretty good, and it will of course be the class leader for performance and driving enjoyment.

Roll on the 'M' version.

[corcoran]

if anyone is getting shot of their existing 530d sport cuz they're well excited about getting a new one; i will gladly take it please and thank you.

[Pwig]

Let me hold back my excitement.

[Wayne King]

posterboy said:

Staffy1984 said:

AndyBe said:

UncappedTag said:

Looks boring before they even unveil the whole car.

My thoughts exactly.

+ 1

Is it not a sin on PH to dislike BMW?

Not at all, infact, there are a fair few fanboy's on this site!

[Tim16V]

Staffy1984 said:

AndyBe said:

UncappedTag said:

Looks boring before they even unveil the whole car.

My thoughts exactly.

+ 1

+1 There's nothing wrong with the current model but I suppose it has to be changed for the sake of it. Owners of these should be chuffed if this is all that is to follow.

[LooseCannon]

I thought from previous reports of "rediscovering elegance" they were getting rid of Bangle's gonky lights and random shutlines. From those teasers it looks like his ghost still haunts the styling dept.

[Steve Gunnis]

Is it just me or does this look older than the current 5 series?

I bet if you were to see all of the 2000-2010 cars back in the eighties and had to place them all in order of their manufacture, you would get a lot of them the wrong way around. They facelift cars just for the sake of it now, there's nothing inspiring or radical anymore. Thanks to the poor reception to Bangle era BMW design we can now expect this lukewarm blandness to all new models. There are so many beautiful shapes from every decade of BMWs, the Bauhaus 2002, the E9 Coupes, what the hell are we going to take from this decade?

[BeMo]

I hope the rest of it looks better, as I really wanted to like this car. But from these shots the front looks swollen much like most of the current peugeot range, bigger car fronts dont work on smaller ones.