The world is not a high-gloss brochure and even cars like the new BMW G30 5 Series often look a bit different in reality than on the first official photos. Bimmertoday’s reader Todor has now caught the upper-class sedan in Munich and made some photos for us that show the seventh BMW 5 Series without artificial post-processing and in an everyday environment. The live photos show a BMW 530d xDrive with the Luxury Line and thus a configuration, which is of particular relevance for many customers in Europe.
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Thanks to the close up photos, we can now get a closer look at details such as the closed slats on the kidney grille – for aerodynamic reasons, the daytime running lights of the full LED headlights or the transition between the hood and kidneys. And because this G30 5 Series is already on winter tires, we see the sedan also for the first time on smaller diameter wheels.
Compared to its predecessor, the BMW G30 530d xDrive has become lighter by 95 kilograms, thus demonstrating the strength of the lightweight range of the new 5 Series. Its 265 horsepower from a straight-six-cylinder diesel offers a maximum torque of 620 Newton meters between 2,000 and 2,500 rpm accelerating the upper-class sedan to 100 km/h in 5.4 seconds.
The further 55 kilogram lighter 530d sedan with rear wheel drive requires three tenths of a second for the same exercise, but benefits from its overall low-friction drivetrain when consuming. The EU consumption of the G30 530d is between 4.5 and 4.9 liters per 100 kilometers, depending on the tire size. The all-wheel drive variant 530d xDrive comes at 5.0 to 5.4 liters. Both models are electronically braked at 250 km/h.
The prices for the top diesel start in Germany at 54,300 euros, the xDrive model is available from 56,900 euros.
The downside of modern day BMW’s is the plastic used on the Sport/Luxury bumpers.
1. It’s not very aesthetic
2. It’s often fragile material. (on the F20 for example)
Real life photos, ie cellphone pictures makes it look quite ordinary. Cover the front end with your hand and it’s hard to tell it’s not an F10. That’s true of many cars though; they look great from certain angles and ordinary and downright awful from other angles and lighting conditions.
The ugliest car I’ve ever see. A piece of crap just like bmw itself. I’d take a 1980 Tatra rather than this floor cloth called 5 series.
mercedes fanboys are cancer. go get a passport curry fucker in your shitty merc taxi
No need to get racist you cunt. That ain’t right, as annoying as this guy is, that ain’t still.
Get a grip. Your behaviour is hardly any better using a word like ‘cunt’.
Hum… How ? He is behaving like a cunt.
I’ve noticed that Mercedes use a lot of shills, a bit like Apple. Ask yourself why this guy is on a BMW website in the first place. A proper paid up shill.
The french configurator is up, idk if that’s a mistake or not (apparently it’s the only one so i guess so), but check it out if you’re curious.
Definitely not a mistake. I already made a configuration on the Belgian site a week ago.
Damn
Only one gasoline model on the French site, that’s weird. We have two on the Belgian site.
Ironically the configurator is not yet available on the German site!
It wasn’t available on any site i tested (us, uk, nl, de) that’s why i thought it was an error
Dude you have the M760Li there too and we didn’t even know the pricing wtf
Haha, I guess we are spoiled by BMW.
It says “Luxury” on the side…. LOL
BMW has no taste.
Ugly front. F10 is way better looking.
g30 is much more better,
don’t be stubid
These pictures don’t show the G30’s beautiful side lines. Friday I went to this exclusive event where I saw the G30 540i with M Sport Package and it is gorgeous!! The M Sport Package is less aggressive than the F10’s, but that makes it look even more premium (and 7 Series-like) and I think the difference with the M5 will be bigger. The interior is also very beautiful, very high quality. It’s amazing!! M5 will have 600 HP and always xDrive. But even more RWD focused than the normal xDrive system (I think 70% rear) for improved handling. So it will handle as good as the F10 M5 or even better whilst being easier to drive in the rain and safer/ easier to drive overall for regular drivers. They said it’s really difficult to make cars with more than 600 HP only RWD, because it’s harder to get the power to the road and not just smoke your tires. The Touring will be launched in March 2017, the 5 GT could be called 6 GT (so the rumors might be true). The 5 Series there was priced at around 92 000 euros. This was a really well equipped 540i with M Sport Package, exactly the one from the wallpapers. :) The interior lighting is also really beautiful. But overall I think it’s an evolution really, because the F10 was already so good, there’s definitely improvement in the way it feels and looks, but it’s not as if the F10 feels like a dinosaur now, because it doesn’t. I think that’s a good thing. It’s something they’ve always done and they’re good at it. Also the seating position in the F10 is so spot-on I think it’s hard to improve that even further! Well done BMW. ;)
The xDrive used on the next gen M5 has been confirmed having a 20% front and 80% rear torque split by a BMW rep in an Australian interview.
Your post is nice.Please read this one http://comparebin.com/compare-2017-bmw-5-series-with-its-predecessor-its-reviews/
Will BMW bring this diesel engine to the US?
I seriously want this car to fail spectacularly. Then only BMW might consider changing the mess they have made with the skin.
Why so many lines, cuts, creases and shapes all over. Just look at the reflections from the surface of the car in the pic that captured front 3/4th area. The reflection looks one big mess. I vividly remember that one BMW designer once said in an interview that BMW used shapes to create desired reflections to enhance the visual appeal of the car. But the reflections in G30 aren’t doing anything to enhance the beauty of the cars. In fact, the reflections are looking downright ugly.
Historically BMW designs were more about crisp and purposeful lines than these ‘contracted earthworm skin’ type multiple lines jostling to be on top of each other.
What happened to your aesthetic sense, BMW? Asian cars are donning better cultivated styling than your current crop. Not one thing about exterior or interior is likable about this car. If it turns out to be a good drive then that will be more of a saving grace rather than an achievement.
If BMW is really keen to remain top tier luxury marque player in the log run than it has to come up with something radical at the earliest.
PS – All thisis coming from a hardcore BMW fan. (I am really tempted to say an erstwhile fan)
Its just typically sad, when you see people comment nowadays. They are very judgemental without even taking a detail look. They talk like they know everything, but actually they don’t know anything. Each manufacture has their specific guidelines on design, even all 911 looks similar, compared to few decades ago, but when you look deeper, you can appreciate the evolution of design without compromising what its supposed to be. The new 5 is unmistakenly a 5 Series, but when you look deeper into the G30, the vehicle is more mature and aggressive, and the whole interior is based on G11/G12 7 Series. These haters will look for tiniest imperctions to make their case. Its just a sad world.