RE: Driven: The New BMW 5-Series
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adycav said:
infradig said:
'Bread and butter model'- £37k! Since you lot have had things like XFR's on long term blag,you seem to have come over all Vinnie Jones when it comes to the real world.
The 520d will be the 'bread & butter' model.
The 530d is more, err, Focaccia and olive oil...
Well I don't like it. It looks like a car made up from cut-n-shut bits and bobs from elsewhere in the BMW range that don't really go together. Big bulbous nose from the 5GT, inflated back-end from a 3 series and over-exaggerated creases down the middle. Those rear 3/4 cornering shots look awful.
I think I'll be keeping my E60 535d for a little longer yet and with some proper (non-runflat) tyres on, it's proving to be a great drive.
Sad to say but I think it's been mostly downhill for the marque since the E39.
Then if BMW's dealer continue to demonstrate the kind of complete incompetence I've experienced over the last 6 months, I'll be moving over to a Jag XF, which as a BMW owner and enthusiast for over 20 years is saying something.
I think I'll be keeping my E60 535d for a little longer yet and with some proper (non-runflat) tyres on, it's proving to be a great drive.
Sad to say but I think it's been mostly downhill for the marque since the E39.
Then if BMW's dealer continue to demonstrate the kind of complete incompetence I've experienced over the last 6 months, I'll be moving over to a Jag XF, which as a BMW owner and enthusiast for over 20 years is saying something.
It's lost all its visual muscle. Look at those weedy, recessive wheel arches and the Korean back end. BMWs, like them or not, have always looked poised and, well, a bit 'ard. The latest 3 and 5 are visually weak. Out of proportion everywhere you look, and held together by weedy lines. Very poor design work.
SDxsi said:
I can't believe people have been so nice as to comment that it looks dull! That front end is f king vile. IMO of course.
esvcg:Yer the front bumper looks really pushed up, especially the middle bit under the kidney grills that looks like its been forgotten at the bottom.
Did a really rough mock up (bored!), but IMO looks meaner.
RobM77 said:
That steering system sounds like that fitted to the Prelude in the mid 90s. That worked well didn't it? Or was it just Setright's glowing reviews that have tainted my view? 
It was very fashionable in the late 80s/early 90s, just about every Japanese car seemed to have it around then, there's a whole list in the Wikipedia articlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering#Four-wheel_s...
Zod said:
SDxsi said:
I can't believe people have been so nice as to comment that it looks dull! That front end is f king vile. IMO of course.
Much less interesting than a Peugeot, of course.daemon said:
Phil Dicky said:
A bet Jaguar can't believe their luck
I find the XF bland, plasticky and gimmicky.Also, no doubt the pics are of the SE, it always takes the M Sport variants to really bring out the best in BMW designs.
Edited by daemon on Thursday 28th January 22:38
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