2010 BMW 5-Series Touring Spy Photos With New Psychedelic Camo

2010 BMW 5 Series Touring spy photo / CarPix

New 5-series Touring will be larger than previous generation

By Alex Ricciuti
April 16, 2009 2:42 PM
Filed Under: BMW, German, Spy Photos

With the new 5-series GT coming one would think that BMW will only be cannibalizing its own sales, such as on this upcoming 5-series Touring. But that's what has been said of many a BMW model, such as the X3 or the 1-series, and, like those models or not, they have proven themselves successful in the marketplace. So with BMW you can try to doubt, but they have a pretty good track record proving the skeptics wrong.

So here we have a funked-out 5-series Touring, still trying to hide beneath the camouflage, although this time in summer dress. We can see where BMW is going with the design - that is, sticking to the basics of BMW design and leaving the creative re-interpretation of the series to the GT folks.

Shades of styling elements from the recent 7-series crop up here, but it's still difficult to surmise anything from spy shots. The absence of any obvious radical departures is all that we have to go on. The 5-series Touring will be a little wider and longer that the current generation, being built on a shortened wheelbase platform, the same one it shares with the 7-series.

Engines expected in this 5-series Touring include BMW's two new 4.4 liter V8 twin-turbo and 3.0 liter in-line 6-cylinder powerplants. A downsized version may also feature a 2.0 liter diesel with enough featherweight punch to power the 5-series.

The new 5-series is slated to come to market in 2010 and this Touring variant is expected to be released at launch or shortly afterward.

 

Comments

afterace2
April 16, 2009 2:50 PM
Psychodelic paintjob is a must have those days.

adz612
April 16, 2009 3:47 PM
trippy. All you need is a couple tabs of X and Jimi Hendrix in the background. lol

adz612
April 16, 2009 3:48 PM
.....not that I'd condone the use of X. Jimi Hendrix I will definitely recommend. lol.

DieselDog
April 16, 2009 4:07 PM
LOVE the shape of this thing! Worlds better than the bloated GT, pudgy X6 and cumbersome X5. Long, low (and without the plastic cladding camo), lean. The rear three-quarter view is best. I want one with a blown six and manual trans. ("Honey, hold on. Kids, shut up. Daddy's gonna blow the doors off Granny in her Buick!"

afterace2
April 16, 2009 7:13 PM
I actually think it looks so A6 Avant from the rear 3/4. Which isn't bad at all, afterall.

khlbt
April 20, 2009 10:27 AM
Wider is ok...but longer is a no...as for the camo on it, pretty trippy LOL!

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