It's not our 10Best Cars loop, nor Virginia International Raceway where we run our annual Lightning Lap tests, nor the 20 miles of highway between my driveway plus the Car and Driver cube farm. But nearby the front of my mental card catalog of Roads I Know Well, there exists a tangle of Portuguese pavement the spot that the Atlantic Ocean rises for the Sintra Mountains.
As the German automaker noted once the 5-Series first debuted a few weeks ago, the mid-size sedan can drive itself at speeds of up 210 km/h (130 mph). It's an ability which includes little use away from Germany as well as unrestricted areas of Autobahn, however it's pretty sure when you're car can pilot you along safely at 210 km/h, it will don't have any problem doing the work at 100 km/h.
The new BMW 5-series. The seventh generation of BMW's longest-serving, best-selling model - abdominal muscles heart of the brand. Codenamed G30 , it can be everything you'd expect of the modern premium exec: lighter, faster, more cost-effective and packed with kit, including proto-autonomous tech. But it's still over the sum these parts.
Well, it deserves some tire smoke along with a cool background, nevertheless, you obtain a general idea. The only "problem" is the fact that these images don't depict the drift machine you have always wanted. You see, not merely will the following M5 be AWD only, but so will its M Performance little brother. And that's exactly what the rendering set will be based upon - an M550i xDrive.
The 2017 BMW 5 Series receives a unique upgrade these times. It's a new kind of body platform called CLAR, or Cluster Architecture. CLAR mixes high-strength steel, aluminum and graphite by the body processes structure to decrease significant weight for future models and increase strength and safety. It provides for extra flexibility by giving fewer but more versatile submodules (clusters) which are more adjustable in content, size, and adaptability.
As the German automaker noted once the 5-Series first debuted a few weeks ago, the mid-size sedan can drive itself at speeds of up 210 km/h (130 mph). It's an ability which includes little use away from Germany as well as unrestricted areas of Autobahn, however it's pretty sure when you're car can pilot you along safely at 210 km/h, it will don't have any problem doing the work at 100 km/h.
The new BMW 5-series. The seventh generation of BMW's longest-serving, best-selling model - abdominal muscles heart of the brand. Codenamed G30 , it can be everything you'd expect of the modern premium exec: lighter, faster, more cost-effective and packed with kit, including proto-autonomous tech. But it's still over the sum these parts.
Well, it deserves some tire smoke along with a cool background, nevertheless, you obtain a general idea. The only "problem" is the fact that these images don't depict the drift machine you have always wanted. You see, not merely will the following M5 be AWD only, but so will its M Performance little brother. And that's exactly what the rendering set will be based upon - an M550i xDrive.
The 2017 BMW 5 Series receives a unique upgrade these times. It's a new kind of body platform called CLAR, or Cluster Architecture. CLAR mixes high-strength steel, aluminum and graphite by the body processes structure to decrease significant weight for future models and increase strength and safety. It provides for extra flexibility by giving fewer but more versatile submodules (clusters) which are more adjustable in content, size, and adaptability.
