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Not For Your Consumption: 2011 BMW 5-Series Touring

 
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2011 BMW 5-Series Touring

HI-RES GALLERY: 2011 BMW 5-Series Touring

Think what you will of the 5-Series Grand Touring. It's a competent all-around vehicle, though we still can't find a viewing angle that's favorable. But it's certainly no looker like the 5-Series Touring, and it doesn't offer anything the Touring doesn't in terms of function. Yet we only get the 5 GT, while the rest of the world gets the choice.

This isn't new: Americans have shown a palpable disdain for station wagons, if only because they're called station wagons. Jack them up four inches and slap the "crossover" moniker on them, and we buy them like they're mid-1990s SUVs.

So, my fellow forlorn luxury wagon lovers, here's what we're missing. It gets all the goodness of the upgraded 2011 5-Series, plus the utility of an extended cargo area. If you're one of the ones that would happily pony up at the dealership for one of these instead of the 5 GT, blame your neighbor. Heck, blame your whole neighborhood. Because you're probably the only one on the block that would make that choice.

Good for you.

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  1. By NoNameDenton Posted: 6/11/2010 8:28pm PDT

    No offense to BMW, but I would rather have this then atrocity known as the 5 series GT
     
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  2. By Manny Posted: 6/12/2010 10:34am PDT

    Man-oh-man do I want one of these! I never believed BMW when they insisted the the GT was *THE* vehicle to have if you wanted sport-luxury-practicality. BS! The Touring gives you all that and more! If I could, I'd get a 530d with a manual transmission. No x-Drive, no point-and-shoot transmisison. Just me, and my torque-meister machine eating mile after mile after mile after mile.
     
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  3. By Rice1 Posted: 6/13/2010 2:05pm PDT

    This wagon actually looks pretty nice. I can't say this about any other wagon I've seen in the past.
     
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  4. By bepsf Posted: 6/13/2010 3:12pm PDT

    The 5 Series GT makes the Audi A4 & A6 Avants even more desirable...
     
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  5. fb_726451884 avatar Denzel Gaines Posted: 6/14/2010 8:14am PDT

    The new 5-series looks amazing. they should keep the touring here while they take the GT model. even though the front end dosent look that bad on the GT its just the rest of the body styling from coupe to suv
     
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