If you are in the occupation of making big businesses, but your friend's yacht makes
you seasick, well then ladies and gentlemen, this is what you need, the new BMW 5 Series.
I'm not going to talk a whole lot about the car by the way, because you already know that
this is BMW's most successful business automobile.
Well, is it BMW's best looking car right now in our market?
We think so, because well finally the kidney grille is perfectly sized and shaped.
By the way ignore the ugly, hideous, red looking registration number plate, instead, let's pay
attention to the set of LED DRLs that are the best looking since Angel Eyes days and now
come equipped with laser technology, with a range of about 600 or 650 metres.
But for something like that, you're going to have to pay more for the M Sport variant because
just like yourself, BMW is good at business too. Now over here to the side, it's 27 millimetres longer,
but it still is quintessentially BMW, unmistakably Bavarian, because of the long
hood balance proportion and short overhang and the archetypical Hofmeister kink that
makes a BMW, a BMW. The world recognizes a businessman on the road,
because of this.
The interiors are a place that make you believe that you have made it in life.
The driver-focussed cockpit, it makes you feel special every time you scrape out time from
your busy schedule to be behind the wheel.
While the high-quality materials are better than your business partner's yacht.
What's new here for 2021, is a large freestanding display and a digital dash.
In short, there's more screen area in here than the five iPhones,
you gifted your family last Diwali.
And of course like Siri, the BMW can talk to you.
BMW insists that this interior is built to spend long hours on the road.
So the front seats now get lumbar support,
no way you're getting seasick in here.
Now here at the back you will mostly be buying shares or making calls to London Metal Exchange
doing business as usual because,
for those kind of things, these kind of cabins is what you really need because
the insulation here at the back is superb by the way,
and in fact, the headliner here is a sound deadening material.
And for year 2021, the BMW 5 Series here, it also comes with four-zone climate control,
because as we all know, in business, it pays to have a cool head on your shoulders.
Now when you're not sitting in the backseat, then you're sitting here in the front seat of the
BMW 5 Series and that means that you are out on your weekend drive.
When you're out on a weekend drive, the BMW 5 Series does not disappoint,
I think that's the best part. You see, you're sitting so low, you're sitting sporty, and then there
is a very chunky gearbox, a very chunky steering wheel.
The new one here, chunkier, supposed to help you rest your hands on long drives much better.
It certainly is the steering wheel that helps you place the car very precisely on the road.
By now if it's all black and white in your head, and you're thinking of putting your
hard earned business money onto this car,
well, remember, the car comes with this kind of a key which looks very, very, very, very pretty,
and it's got a screen that lights up of course and then you can toggle through multiple menus.
When standing outside the car, you can literally call the car to yourself feeling like a
James Bond, or you can also park the car.
Quickly then, because of the drive experience or as said in German language, the "fahrdynamik",
you're sucked from the act of speaking in board meetings to the act of driving.
When it comes to being fast, this car is more leisure than being business because well
250 horses, 350 Newton-metres of torque, that's not going to be sounding a whole lot on paper
or to you right now when I tell it to you.
But remember folks, BMW is full of surprises,
at least it always manages to surprise me on two fronts.
One is, its gearbox, ZF, and these ZF transmissions have been absolute peach, they've always been
so great that you never really missed a dual clutch transmission in BMWs.
Just the way a ZF BMW automatic transmission does not ever disappoint, no matter which BMW
you're driving,
similarly, no matter which BMW you're driving, you're never going to be driving a very slow
porky BMW.
If you're going into a corner, well then this car really starts to come together.
Poise on the flare that the car is going to showcase
and exuberate is going to put a smile on your face.
So the whole front engine, rear wheel drive setup that you have on this car is going to
ensure that you have good fun.
The suspension too is just so good.
I actually quite liked the suspension on this car more than its competition.
The power is not inadequate at all.
Certainly, you won't be flying yourself into the weekends
but it's good enough to be overtaking just about any vehicle right now that is going
to further up ahead, make a beeline at the toll booth, for we all are headed to a hill station.
The steering wheel is slightly dead if I may say that.
But it's all felt through the fact that the car is talking to you.
It's felt through the suspension, through the chassis.
And now speaking of the Mercedes, well,
that is going to give you a whole lot of leg room by the way.
With the given amount of traffic,
if I were to be sitting in a Mercedes, I would have pulled over some place and
to deliver the verdict, to summarize the car talk to you about its final few points.
This is not a Mercedes
it's a BMW,
one where you almost never want to stop and it will feel like you want to pull over.
Just keep going and on and on
because it just makes more business sense.