New 2011 BMW 5 Series Touring

The new BMW 5-Series Touring is the perfect symbiosis of driving pleasure, efficiency, versatility and sporting elegance. The 4th generation of the Business Touring convinces through powerful design aesthetics, modern premium-level functionality and brand-typical driving dynamics combined with exemplary efficiency. Extensive comfort and safety features, which include numerous BMW-exclusive driver assistance systems, substantiate the outstanding qualities of the new BMW 5-Series Touring as an upper midrange touring car.



The body design of the new BMW 5-Series Touring signalises sophisticated elegance combined with active sportiness. Its dynamically stretched silhouette, side window surfaces extending to the rear end and a coupe-like roofline result in a unique interpretation of the touring concept that corresponds to the appealingly well-balanced character of the new BMW 5-Series Touring. Sporty handling characteristics, modern functionality in a high-class ambience and variably utilisable interior space offering possibilities for numerous activities are authentically expressed through powerful aesthetics, sophisticatedly designed surfaces and elaborately executed details. Moreover, like the new BMW 5-Series Sedan, the vehicle's elegant appearance reflects both the representative status and the enhanced motoring comfort of this latest touring model in the upper midrange segment.



The new BMW 5-Series offers Sheer Driving Pleasure in unique style, remaining faithful to the philosophy of the brand while nevertheless setting new highlights at the same time. Just like the 5-Series Sedan, the 5-Series Touring is further enhancing its leading position as the most sporting car in its segment, but also offers even more driving comfort than its predecessor. This double progress in two areas is ensured by the most advanced drivetrain and suspension technology.



The engine range featured in the new BMW 5-Series Touring boasts powerful and fast-revving petrol and diesel engines. Specifically, the range starts with two straight-six petrol engines delivering 225 kW/306 bhp and 150 kW/204 bhp respectively, with a 180 kW/245 bhp straight-six diesel and a four-cylinder diesel engine with 135 kW/184 bhp rounding off the portfolio. The suspension consists of a double-track control arm front axle and the integral V rear axle in a combination that promotes both agility and driving comfort, giving the car very harmonious anti-roll and transitional behaviour. In addition, the new BMW 5-Series Touring features as standard a rear-axle air suspension with self-levelling.



Optional Dynamic Driving Control enables the driver to adjust the set-up of the car to his personal preferences and wishes. As a further option, the new BMW 5-Series Touring may be fitted with Dynamic Damper Control or Adaptive Drive, a system that additionally offers an electronically controlled anti-roll stability management, and, as yet a further innovation in this class, BMW Integral Active Steering.



Modern straight-six petrol engines guarantee up-to-date driving pleasure also in the new BMW 5-Series. The power units in the BMW 535i Touring delivering 225 kW/306 hp and offering a unique technological concept, the most powerful six-cylinder in the new BMW 5-Series clearly confirms both the sporting character of the touring and the innovative power of BMW's engine development specialists. Indeed, the 3.0-litre six-cylinder in the BMW 535i Touring is the first engine to combine BMW TwinPower Turbo Technology, High Precision Injection, and variable VALVETRONIC valve management. The turbocharger system applying the TwinScroll principle to separate the ducts of three cylinders at a time both in the intake manifold and in the turbocharger itself, as well as VALVETRONIC valve control developed to an even higher standard, ensure a fascinating response at all times.



The engine develops its maximum torque of 400 Nm/295 lb-ft all the way from 1,200 to 5,000 rpm, with maximum output at 5,800 rpm. In conjunction with High Precision Injection likewise optimised to an even higher standard, this ensures a balance of performance and fuel economy quite unparalleled in this power class. The new BMW 535i Touring accelerates from a standstill to 100 km/h in just 6.0 seconds, its top speed is limited electronically to 250 km/h or 155 mph. Fuel consumption in the EU test cycle, on the other hand, is 8.6 litres/100 kilometres (32.8 mpg imp), the CO2 rating is 201 grams per kilometre.



As yet a further option the new BMW 5-Series Touring is also available with a Sport Automatic variant of the eight-speed transmission allowing manual selection of gears by means of shift paddles on the steering wheel.