BMW 5 Series Touring

Buy used cars to be so simple. If I wanted something like a 5-Series, you can buy a 5 Series. If I wanted something like a 5 Series, but with a little more space, you can buy a 5 Series Touring.

But now, the genre-blurring 5-Series GT - the higher, more spacious, cousin hatchbacked 5 - thrown into the mix, the new tour, the task is slightly more complicated. Add a migraine inducing mash-up, which is X6 - Super guide as the sedan, seems off-road - and it's clear the new Touring is not only a strong fighting progress and the E-Class station wagon Audi A6 Avant, but competition is also included.

Too bad the competition. 5 The new Touring is one of the species in the round car available today. In fact, if you can shell out a not insignificant £ 30k starting price for this entry-level 520D - 530D is also positive and 530th 525th gasoline, but diesel is one of the smallest of all purchases - may be all the car you need.

Its great figures that we have come to expect from BMW, is easy to numbness. With 184bhp and 280 foot pounds of torque turn 520d to 62 mph in 8.3 seconds, but with the help of the standard stop-start technology, will return 137g/km of CO2 and 55mpg. In a car of this size, it is amazing.

On the road, the engine is as great as the figures show. This is one of the smoothest, most adaptable small diesel out there, with unfeasibly wide range of power and a lot to push throughout the rev range. OK, sometimes you lose acceleration of kidney-jabbing straight sixes, but the combination of real world economy and the pace, look no further.

Though not as strong as last January 5 Touring, this is still one of the most fun car great Whang-down back on the road. The treatment may have lost the purity, but the trade-off is less bobbliness from run-flat tires and quiet ride - a compromise that should suit most buyers. M Sports suspension drive is available, if it does not.

BMW went to a big no-nonsense practicality here. Folded, you get 1670 liters of luggage compartment, slightly more than the A6 Avant, slightly lower than the E Series. Under the load the luggage, there are a couple of low cabinets, suitable for storage of Gideon Bibles. Pop-up rear stays, which allows you to create the back of the 'Aero deck' DIY and scare the hell out of Labrador.

Criticisms? Er. The lack of 4WD version to give up a few, but always in A6. But if you want a car that is virtually alone, 5 Touring is the father.

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