BMW 5 Series sold out

Why buy this over the Jaguar XF. The Jag is more reliable and has soul. I live in Germany and am fed up with Germans laughing about the British car industry. You buy the 5-series, you support them.

By gherkins123 on 24 June, 2010, 12:47pm

hey ho

Well you can all go and buy the new SAAB 9-5 instead..
It'll cost less and you be feeling every bump in the road either.
Oh and did I mention the traction. Hell the things darn near impossible to crash.

By W00DZ on 24 June, 2010, 8:06pm

Go test drive

Yup we all just go back and but another 5 series they are very good. This time my dealer offered me really bad trade in price so I went away to test drive something else after 5 BM 5 series buys.
Yes you have guessed it I have a shiny new Jaguar XF DIESEL S in the driveway and its really fabulous and the dealership treated me well too. You cant beta buying locally for great service from people who want you back to see them for more business
by Georgio

By georger7 on 24 June, 2010, 8:51pm

gherkin is right

you must be a gherkin if you really believe the jag-ford more reliable than the germans. daft...

By theos on 25 June, 2010, 7:10pm

gherkin is a right gherkin

the germans laugh at the british car industry because it was so sad that it died. thankfully the colonials were there to pick up the pieces...

By theos on 25 June, 2010, 7:13pm

gherkin is right

you must be a gherkin if you really believe the jag-ford more reliable than the germans. daft...

By theos on 25 June, 2010, 7:13pm

Gherkin has a point Have had the 530D since April however its spent the last 2 weeks at the garage as it doesn't like water and for some reason Bee M cant yet tell me when the parts will appear as the vehicle is too new?. Great car though, well executed shame it doesn't like the wet.

By Boris on 26 June, 2010, 9:09am

It's the sheep mentality. People buy these cars because of the perceived status. To my mind they're all soul less. They may be good drivers cars but the designs are all just so bland. I drove the Jag XFR, diesel S and XJ today and they just blow any of the German stuff out of the water. And, they're now up with best in terms of reliability. It's a myth to think German cars are as reliable as they were. If it's reliability you want, you have to buy Japanese, but again soul less.

By paul13bernard on 26 June, 2010, 5:22pm

Production Capacity?

Are BMW flat out in producing this car or are they just restricting supply on purpose AutoExpress?

We`ve heard a lot about Eurozone car companies having scaled back production recently, due to the recession thats hitting European and American markets. Is the waiting list (therefore) down to amazing and overwhelming demand for this very conservative 5 series, or is it down to the fact the factories producing them not being capable of producing the vehicles in the right numbers,in attempt to make sure quality is of a high enough standards expected of the marque? (BMW traditionally have real quality lemons with their first batches of there new models!)

The Five itself is certainly a fairly understated exec,(like a bloated 3 series) that seems to be going more towards a Mercedes than BMW in character... I`m not sure any of the German brands can truly say they have sufficiently a quality ambiance of presence over a Jaguar or the reliability and attention to detail of a Lexus? (Those flared arches on E-class`s just look retro-daft!)

All these German premium brands are OK for the Mr Brylcreem executive though... (Just a bit 90`s now in image)

By LegioIXHispana on 27 June, 2010, 4:47pm