well good evening ladies and gentlemen I
want to welcome you all of our facebook
fans that are out there watching us
tonight
my name is Trudy Hardy on the vice
president of marketing for BMW of north
america and I'm so proud and pleased to
be with you here tonight
this is a really unique opportunity the
first time ever that we'll be revealing
a car to you our facebook fans before
it's revealed tomorrow at the press
conference here at the Detroit
International Auto Show the 5-series the
all new 5 Series is our seventh
generation 5 series and it's a really
important vehicle for the United States
market we are the largest market for
five series around the world with 1.2
million cars on the road out of nearly 8
million 5-series globally so we're
really excited to bring you this special
vehicle and i'm going to bring a friend
in here to help me out i want to
introduce my friend car aficionado and
editor-in-chief of Motor Trend head low
I truly had welcome thank you for never
getting it was so great to be here
hello to all the facebook fans out there
fans of BMW fans of motor trend so happy
to be here with all of you and help
reveal some awesome seventh-generation
g35 series yeah so and i are going to
reveal the cars to tonight but if you
stay with us through the entire
broadcast we will be taking questions
and answers at the end of today's
program so you want to start here with
our first car
what do we got let's take the cover off
you want to do the honors
well here we go this is the all-new
seventh-generation BMW 5-series the 540i
it looks fantastic in the metal this is
the first time I've actually seen it
outside of pictures online looks looks
great
well great cars start with great designs
so overall proportionately the car
hasn't changed very much for one inch
shorter and one nearly 1 inch longer but
they're hot have been some significant
improvements to the car and we want to
talk you through some of those yeah
let's look at this is the faith of the
vehicles very very very bold it is so
you
see larger kidney grilles you know our
iconic kidney grills or so on much
larger it gives it a much wider stance
okay and these look like these the
active girl shoulders they are ok look
at your clothes in the clothes which
they are closed so I'm for our Facebook
viewers out there to active design on
the kidney grilles they will open and
close depending on whether you need
performance and aerodynamics or open up
to help the engine with cooling
fantastic and I also notice that the
headlight seem to be updated and maybe
all-new yeah the all new five series
comes with LED lights as standard ok
these are the the icon adaptive leds so
you'll see that they run across the
entire bottom of the corona lights all
the way into meat that the kidney
grilles awesome
now what's under hood let's talk about
two new engines under the hood so we
have a new four-cylinder engine and a
new six-cylinder engine yoga and we've
got it's all about increasing
performance but also improving
efficiency so the new engines are the
four cylinder is eight horsepower i
improved from previous generation and
the six-cylinder is 35 horsepower better
than the ok I our generation so do the
math than the four-cylinder makes an 240
horsepower and then the 600 version of
five series would be 335 correct
awesome right alrighty also lighter ok
lets up 237 pounds lighter so also being
able to be a bit more efficient as well
where do you take the math up so the
hood the roof the trunk and the doors
are all aluminum how silly it you'll see
that weight reduction got it so more
power less mass surely there's a
improvement in performance there is so
far 0 to 60 we actually improved and
increased by seven tenths of a second
that's great fantastic our
high-performance nuts will be excited
about that
yeah so let's um you want to move around
inside sure sinful design now that
there's a little design feature here on
the front fender is that functional
there is that's called the air breather
ok so on what happens is the the air
comes in through the front air curtain
redirect redirect that turbulent air
around the wheel well and then it comes
through the
a breather so it's not just the design
element which does help with with the
shape but it also is as functional as
well it draws air turbulent era of the
wheelwell smoothly down the side
speaking of down the side i noticed
several key design features here let's
talk about the double shoulder line
which starts here at the wheel arch and
actually go follows the entire length of
the car back here to the iconic
Hofmeister kink yep so you know that
Mary yes very much copied Hofmeister
kink iconic on the five series and and
well executed and all your vehicle's
beautiful
we'll take a look inside yes let's do
that be great
ready so i think the first thing that
you'll notice said is that the entire
cockpit is aimed toward you
driver center it is very driver centric
but it so you will on see the new I
Drive six point out right and this
carries through a lot of the same
features that we have in the in the
vehicle the new display get the power
going there yep we have the the new ID
six controller so it's got the digital
screen
ok it's got the voice command
touchscreen technology gesture control
all built-in gesture control that's
greater control that debuted on the
7-series so it's here and for those of
you who haven't seen gesture control
it's amazing basically a bit work if
it's working i can point at the screen
and turn up
yeah I can turn it back down i can do it
again if a call when to come in
I could point at it to answer it or it
gets a you know do a slight motion to
send it away all sorts of cool things
with just control this is fantastic i've
done this before another little videos
that people go nuts when they see it let
me turn that it's great so want to talk
a little bit about advanced driver
safety system got it so well we'll talk
a little bit about an active cruise
control about which is what you have on
the all-new five it's got the
stop-and-go technology and actively in
keeping assist as well as traffic jam
assist occur and the real benefit for
the driver is that you're able to take
your hands off the wheel for up to 30
seconds right so autonomous driving has
come to the 5-series up to 30 seconds
hands off the wheel of the vehicle will
steer for you control the throttle and
the brake yet keeping the lane may be
safe on all of our viewers can see it
but you'll see that the heads-up display
system seventy-five percent larger on in
the new five that's great and that keeps
your vision everything focus down the
road not looking at distracting
multicolor multifunctional so yep
everything everything right in front of
you try to remove that driver
distraction
yeah yeah we talked about the awesome so
we've got the optional display key
we've got wireless charging so if you
notice that you pick that up of the
wireless charging mat great and that
that that a remote key controls a lot of
features on your vehicle and I think one
of the coolest things is
remote-controlled parking so this car
can can park itself for you in a
parallel parking situation or
perpendicular parking
it controls everything from steering
gear selection acceleration and braking
so that if you're in a tight spot the
car will park itself for you so let me
get this straight i'm outside the car
there's a tight spot i can use the key
to park the vehicle that's correct
that's awesome that's really cool very
cool
this is also a feature that came on the
7-series so I think having this in the x
series this is a this is a real bragging
points to have the big key with with the
LCD screen on it it's pretty cool very
cool so let's talk a little bit about
the surround view camera system so
there's four cameras that surround this
vehicle that help you on in in terms of
whether or not you can you things you
can't see so as your parallel parking
it'll help you with curbs other vehicles
pedestrians are those for remote camera
sensors help you on the create that
three-dimensional view of the car it
displays we're right there on your
display but the coolest thing is
actually through the BMW connected app
you can have access to check in on your
car where it's parked no matter where no
matter where it is no matter how closer
matter how far away it is from you so i
can use my phone I can log into the BMW
app and I can check the status of the
vehicle and the including the camera
access the camera views from the app no
matter where i am correct that's amazing
that's very cool
you'll see also that we have on harman
kardon that you know very well but we
also now offer on Bowers and Wilkins
premium surround the vehicle their
diamond Twitter system and its so you
could pump it up using just your finger
that's that easy
this is attributed this models equipped
with bowers and wilkins so it's got
great sound awesome very cool wanna get
out and look at another yes that would
be able to this is all right let's do it
all right what do we have you want to do
the honors again
yeah take the cover office this end is
the 530 e so this is the fourth I
performance model in the BMW family as
you know we have the 3-series the
7-series the x5 and now we have the
first plug-in hybrid for the 5-series
okay great so this is a plug-in hybrid
electric vehicle that means it has both
an internal combustion engine and
battery and electric motor pack how many
motors that is correct one electric
motor with one combustion engine ok
gather and the engine and this is the
2-liter 4-cylinder engine current good
so first question from our audience is
probably what's what's the range when we
talk about it so let's break it down to
pure electric range about 15 miles but I
think what's the best part of this is
when you look at the mpge or the mile
per gallon equivalent will be in the
high 60's and over 500 miles per tank
that's so really great performance out
of a plug-in hybrid and with the fourth
plug-in hybrid in the BMW family were
now the largest provider in the premium
segment of plug-in hybrid vehicles from
traffic how do you charge right here so
if you come over here to the side on
you've got the you've got the toilet
important charging port which can be
plugged into just a normal 110 outlet it
comes to the base cable takes up to
seven hours to charge through a normal
110 outlet or if you invest in the
high-speed charging wallbox that reduces
that to about three hours
ok so seven hours on standard 110 for
about 15 miles of peer reviewing yeah
but I would also say charging is
optional you don't need to charge this
vertical recharges itself just as you're
driving so that's one of the best
benefits of the plug-in hybrid no range
no range anxiety good absolutely
so can we see the the batteries i guess
yeah is there there in the back so i
think that you've got the display key i
do so we can take a look right here
fantastic check it out very cool so you
can see that it doesn't take up a lot of
your storage space but you've got on
the the battery cells that are there
held right underneath here is your
charging charging cables right in here
under this time in standard units n very
cool but you still have plenty of
storage capacity back here also like 30
to go back to look at that
there you go very tricky alright how
about if we debut one more model tonight
care where I think this is the one a lot
of people or anxious about all right
well if I can ask you to do you want to
do the honors again problem let me
introduce you to the m551 righty
ok so am 559 you said the use of the the
letter M what is it what are we looking
at it so and that this is the first m
performance model in the 5-series family
ok so it's got on my performance parts
both on the exterior treatment but most
importantly under the hood
ok so this vehicle has 456 horsepower
well and i will tell you that this is
the fastest BMW 5-series we have ever
produced 0 to 60 and 3.9 seconds wow ok
so fastest BMW pressure that means
faster than the the current generation
m5 that is correct 0-60 in 3.9 seconds
now those of you who are motoring fans
you might know that we find that BMW
under rates their performance so this
will probably be maybe faster than that
actually maybe fashion three-point but
will wait until we drive it
this is interesting m 550 from the
performance line but it's not an m5 this
is not an m5 ok yes this is this is
somewhere in between so alright so maybe
there's something coming
I can't really talk about that but I
would say that you maybe we'll see a big
brother in the family one day
alright well it's gorgeous its we're
looking forward to driving it that
sounds like a super duper fast got this
is all-wheel drive this is all-wheel
drive
ok
all-wheel-drive only very good 10 extra
and I guess our but let's open it up i
mean we've unveiled also all three of
our our models would love to see if any
of our viewers tonight have some
questions for you on a salute to be
great so we're ready for questions we
are all right first question is coming
why don't we just recap here we go first
question is is there new and five coming
I think we touched on that a little bit
then you have to really do it too early
to talk about you want to talk about
specifics but you can bet that there
will be and if you're excited about what
this vehicle offers being the fastest 5
series ever
I mean them if there were to be an m5 to
come it would have to be faster than
this bad boy but let's focus on this one
we have another question coming for
those who want to just join us we just
debuted three vehicles from the BMW
family the 540i the 530 e.i with the
plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that PHP
v and this bad boy here the BMW m550d I
extra extra first one out of the
performance the m performance lion ok
gotta get all right question number two
is there a diesel version community with
I don't have all the specifics to talk
about that yet but yes there is a diesel
model kind of a great third question can
people in the Detroit area see the 5
Series next week during the public days
yes you can
so yes tomorrow is our first pres day so
I'm really happy that were able to
preview this with our fans before the
press gets to see it tomorrow okay but
then when the show opens to the public
we encourage anybody who's local in the
Detroit area to to come on down open out
all three fantastic question for one can
take a test drive and that's a great
question actually when will the vehicles
be on sale so the 530i and the 540i go
on sale februari 11 so you can find them
in your dealerships the 530 II and the
m5 52 weeks later in April so just a few
weeks later okay and then pricing any
pricing news or can we really talk about
it
I would tell you that the 530 is it's
about the same prices the the outgoing
5-series so50 1200 okay great yeah and
that obviously makes sense these aren't
going to be you're not going to
dramatically raised or lowered the price
point of these vehicles you know you're
moving forward you want to you want to
keep selling them to the tune in
tomorrow all that is revealed tomorrow
gotcha yeah last question can i go
online and build one of these not quite
yet but that is happening i would
encourage our viewers to get to BWW
usa.com go to our five series page check
out the new products on and yeah and
stay in touch keep in the loop right I'm
and we'll keep you posted as more
information comes
absolutely yes so stay with BMW and also
motivation for more updates information
on the fighters
yeah thank you and I really appreciate
you being here with us this is really it
was a special moment for us it was
really a unique opportunity to be able
to bring this to our Facebook fans we
really hope that you enjoyed this and
you look forward to seeing you again
soon
great thank you thank you