Archive for the ‘5-Series’ Category

It's not that we don't love BMWs; we do. It's just that their drivers are so easy to make fun of sometimes.

Take one Robert Jones, a British driver whose trust in his TomTom satellite navigation system led him to follow its directions down an increasingly narrow, rutted and precarious path in Tormorden, West Yorkshire, last March.

Until he got stuck against a fence that was the only thing keeping his BMW 5-Series from plummeting over a 100-foot cliff.

A British court convicted Jones of "driving without due care and attention"--in other words, sheer stupidity. As the Daily Mail puts it with characteristic British understatement, "he is...

The 2010 BMW 5-Series GT world debut is just weeks away, at the Frankfurt auto show. Now, according to BMW and to new details confirmed by BMWBlog, the new sedan version of the mid-size 5er family will add an interesting twist or two, when it joins the family next year.

The new 5-Series Sedan is expected to arrive Stateside early next year as a 2011 model, though the automotive media will get a spin in the new car late this year.

Most of the planned changes for the 2011 5-Series are skin-deep. Under new sheetmetal, BMW will expand the use of its 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8, introduced in the X6 and this year in the new 5-Series GT. A slightly...

The past 48 hours have been big for wagons. Apart from the buzz surrounding the 2011 Mercedes Benz E-class Wagon, there's also been news of the Cadillac CTS-V SportWagon and Honda's likely U.S. launch of an Acura wagon based on the popular Acura TSX. Now comes a new rendering of the next-generation BMW 5-Series Touring Wagon, set to appear in late 2010, approximately a year after the debut of its 5-Series sedan sibling.

The rendered wagon bears a number of cosmetic similarities to the current Touring Wagon -- which isn't surprising, as practical-minded wagon-drivers are presumed to worry more about function than form. That isn't to say that...