Monday, November 23, 2009

BMW 5 Series Touring

BMW 5 Series Touring differs from previous model by the slight changes in appearance , equipping and in the range of engines.

BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

The BMW 5 Series Touring is available with nine engines (you can not have 306-hp V8 that has the 540i sedan) coupled to a gearbox manual or automatic (two types). Versions 530xi, 525xi and 530xd have the drive system xDrive total .

BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

BMW 5 Series Touring is a car with a good compromise between comfort and stability with the serial configuration. Alternatively, there is a sport suspension and various measures of rim and tire that give it a touch more sports but harm the comfort (driving impressions of the saloon).

BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

Some engines remain unchanged from the previous 5 Series (eight cylinders that has the 550i and the M5's V10), others have major technical amendments (the six-cylinder gasoline). In some cases ("530i", "523i" and all except the less powerful Diesel) give greater power.

BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

BMW 5 Series Touring employs some systems in order to achieve a reduction in consumption in the engines of 6 or 8 cylinders.

BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

In addition to the manual six relationships that bring all versions of the series (except the 535d), two changes are available automatic different. Both are of hydraulic torque converter and six marches, but a box is faster than the other.

BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

Among the elements of hardware that may have, and that was not the last, are night vision, with a range of up to 300 metres (whose camera is in the bumpers, an improved with iDrive eight programmable buttons, browser with orders by voice recognition (optional with the browser "Professional"), auxiliary and USB connection to play music, or a device warning of involuntary lane-changing ( "LDW").

BMW 5 Series Touring Interior

BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

The latter system alerts the driver through a vibration in the steering wheel that is leaving the lane (unless it enabled the corresponding intermittent). A camera installed on the windshield, at the height of interior mirror, recognizes the lines of the road. It operates at a speed exceeding 70 km / h.

2007 BMW 5 Series Touring
BMW 5 Series Touring

You can keep a programmer-speed braking function or one asset. The latter, only with the automatic change, operates from 0 to 180 km / h. In addition to maintaining the distance (there are four levels to choose) with the vehicle in front, has a role "Stop & Go" to stop the march and restart automatically.

BMW 5 Series Touring

It has an important functional difference compared to the same system that uses Mercedes-Benz: the BMW 5 Series Touring is not doing anything necessary to restart the march if the car has been arrested less than three seconds.

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