Tomorrow morning I shall be driving to Yeovil (in my VW Gold Blue Motion hire car!) to collect my new daily motor, a BMW F10 5 Series 530d M-Sport. Rather than starting a 'look at my new car' thread, I thought I'd start a thread that I can add to as I progress through my ownership of the car ensuring that all of my mindless ramblings are in one place. I know how you lot like pictures, but all I have right now are those taken from the BMW website for the car I've bought, but here you go anyway.
I shall be going over the car with a fine tooth comb on arrival and have laid down some pretty tight acceptance criteria based on my not seeing the car before purchase, but I'm going with my instinct on this so fingers crossed. I needed to sort a car quicker than I had planned as car sharing simply isnt going to work in the short term as I've got some important business trips in the coming 3 weeks so needs must. The dealer has been highly efficient in my dealings with them and have been responsive too, which they tend to be when you phone up out of the blue and say "I want that one".
The car has the following options:
I've also got the dealer to fit an iPhone cradle and something called a Y-Lead that means all of my album content and artwork will now appear on the Sat Nav screen rather than having to use the iPhone to navigate through things.
Now this car is probably the most mundane car I've bought in 12 years, my previous day to day cars being an RS4, GT3, M3 and M3, but times and needs change and to be honest I found myself getting in friends cruisers and doing journies I mostly do, being long A road and motorway blasts, wondering why I was drinking a the rate of 20-22mpg yet getting there no quicker and probably a bit more tired. The 5 series just makes sense for what I need in a car and with the 3L diesel (what was I thinking with the 2L!) has enough get up and go for making rapid progress whilst returning mid 40's mpg I hope. It also has a nice selection of toys and cossets the driver on those long late night trips back from business meetings so I am happy to make the sacrifice of losing the gut wrenching acceleration and that extra bit of turn on and traction. I have my race car which of course this car can now tow and I am still planning, if things go well this year, to get a toy for the summer months and some hooning. I don't need to be driving 50K-60K's worth of epic road car to go down the M42 to a meeting, thems the facts.
So let's see how this goes!
I shall be going over the car with a fine tooth comb on arrival and have laid down some pretty tight acceptance criteria based on my not seeing the car before purchase, but I'm going with my instinct on this so fingers crossed. I needed to sort a car quicker than I had planned as car sharing simply isnt going to work in the short term as I've got some important business trips in the coming 3 weeks so needs must. The dealer has been highly efficient in my dealings with them and have been responsive too, which they tend to be when you phone up out of the blue and say "I want that one".
The car has the following options:
- 19" M Double-spoke style 351M alloy wheels
- Electric Glass Sunroof
- Ext. mirrors - folding. auto dimming
- Fineline Anthracite wood
- M rear spoiler
- Media package - BMW Professional
- Sport automatic transmission
- Sun protection glass
- Visibility package
I've also got the dealer to fit an iPhone cradle and something called a Y-Lead that means all of my album content and artwork will now appear on the Sat Nav screen rather than having to use the iPhone to navigate through things.
Now this car is probably the most mundane car I've bought in 12 years, my previous day to day cars being an RS4, GT3, M3 and M3, but times and needs change and to be honest I found myself getting in friends cruisers and doing journies I mostly do, being long A road and motorway blasts, wondering why I was drinking a the rate of 20-22mpg yet getting there no quicker and probably a bit more tired. The 5 series just makes sense for what I need in a car and with the 3L diesel (what was I thinking with the 2L!) has enough get up and go for making rapid progress whilst returning mid 40's mpg I hope. It also has a nice selection of toys and cossets the driver on those long late night trips back from business meetings so I am happy to make the sacrifice of losing the gut wrenching acceleration and that extra bit of turn on and traction. I have my race car which of course this car can now tow and I am still planning, if things go well this year, to get a toy for the summer months and some hooning. I don't need to be driving 50K-60K's worth of epic road car to go down the M42 to a meeting, thems the facts.
So let's see how this goes!
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