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SharkmanBMW
03-03-2007, 10:37 PM
BMW refreshes 5 Series
http://www.washtimes.com/autoweekend/20070301-123659-8888r.htm

BMW 1 Series to arrive in U.S. in 2009
at http://www.washtimes.com/autoweekend/20070301-123706-5355r.htm
markus
03-04-2007, 12:34 AM
30k for a 1 series? thats kinda steep.
Tcdoe
03-04-2007, 02:52 AM
http://paultan.org/gallery/d/532-2/P0033677.JPG (http://paultan.org/gallery/v/bmw-5-series-facelift/)

http://www.autoweek.nl/images/480/5/e1259729019d6a9bf8cbb9f5c55895c5.jpg (http://autoweek.nl/newsdisp.php?ID=5825&cache=no)
genphreak
03-04-2007, 04:12 AM
I prefer the third pic (your sig). I'd take an e34 chassis with one of those new 535 engine combos anyday...
gtopaul
03-04-2007, 07:21 AM
There they go making the same mistake again. Pricing the 1 series so close to the 3 series that they won't sell. Same thing happened to the 318ti. Also a major problem when the X3 came out and wasn't selling because a loaded one cost as much as an X5. Maybe one day they'll get it right.

Paul
Macv
03-04-2007, 08:36 AM
That refreshed 5 doesn't look any different from the older ones. :\
Derek A.
03-04-2007, 09:21 AM
http://www.autoclub.com.au/uploaded_images/new-toyota-camry-713790.jpg

Looks like a Camry.
markus
03-04-2007, 09:26 AM
yea um, whats so different about the 5? all i see are some different wheels. there isnt 30k worth of car there to make 1 series a smart purchase. It should be priced more towards the lower 20s since they designed it to compete with the VW GTI.
Tcdoe
03-04-2007, 10:25 AM
The front bumper looks a bit rounder and the air intake has been turned upside down. Not that much of a visual facelift. Compare to this:

http://www.vf-engineering.com/images/kit/bmw/e60_545/top/1.jpg
Alexlind123
03-04-2007, 10:35 AM
All they did was make the body shape less distinctive.
Macv
03-04-2007, 12:33 PM
Looks like a Camry

Wrong, Camry looks like a 5
Michael999
03-04-2007, 12:38 PM
Wrong, Camry looks like a 5

Same as how there have been several 90s jap cars that copied the E34, and then the current model ford falcons sucked their headlights from the E46.
steve0suprem0
03-05-2007, 10:01 AM
i don't even like the new wheels.

what's it gonna take for me to like the 5 series again? children and a picket fence? bs. it's gonna take a freakin flux capacitor and 1.8 gigawatts at 88 mph in a delorean. or a bullet in the brain - i dunno whose, mine or bangle's.
ThoreauHD
03-05-2007, 03:46 PM
Really, I think your signature pics look better than their top of the line new model cars.

The refreshed 5 series looks like my grandmothers oldsmobile and that 1 series looks like a gremlin with a nice paint job.

I hope they keep making cars that look like complete **** so the value of mine will go up.
CharlesAFerg
03-05-2007, 04:20 PM
Really, I think your signature pics look better than their top of the line new model cars.

The refreshed 5 series looks like my grandmothers oldsmobile and that 1 series looks like a gremlin with a nice paint job.

I hope they keep making cars that look like complete **** so the value of mine will go up.

Just think of our children, it will be their old car when they grow up! Oh god I can't even think... So much plastic in 2050...