Inside, the car is typical BMW. Excellent. Ergonomics and usability are core to the brand and the 535i is no exception. Although the boot release button under the dash does require some yoga talent to access.
Everything you touch feels solid and high quality, and the new LCD instruments are clear and adjust to suit the selected driving mode. If you are reading this and haven'€™t driven a modern BMW, then you really should.
The driver-centric controls through both the iDrive interface (which in the LCI 5-Series features a trackpad integrated within the turn/click rotary wheel) and the steering wheel buttons (which now update the heads-up readout on the fly) take little time to get used to, and leave you wondering how you ever lived without them.
On the drive back to the CarAdvice office, the 5-series shows why it has frequently been a development benchmark for executive transport the world over. Smooth, powerful and functional, vision is great and you don’t realise you are driving a relatively big (4907mm)" car .
Along with gloss black window surrounds and roof rails and associated M badging, the $4700 M-Sport pack adds 19-inch alloy wheels, sports suspension, more aggressive front and rear bumpers, supportive sport seats and a thick-rimmed steering wheel €" the latter an absolute delight to hold. Missing from the car'€™s standard equipment list, and a $3700 option, however, is a panoramic glass sunroof.
Fitting a child seat was pretty easy. The Touring allows you to half-fold the rear seats forward so you can quickly thread the seat harness to the anchor point on the boot floor. There are three anchor points (two on the floor, one on the back of the middle seat) but fitting three child seats across the back row would be a tight fit.
Everything you touch feels solid and high quality, and the new LCD instruments are clear and adjust to suit the selected driving mode. If you are reading this and haven'€™t driven a modern BMW, then you really should.
The driver-centric controls through both the iDrive interface (which in the LCI 5-Series features a trackpad integrated within the turn/click rotary wheel) and the steering wheel buttons (which now update the heads-up readout on the fly) take little time to get used to, and leave you wondering how you ever lived without them.
On the drive back to the CarAdvice office, the 5-series shows why it has frequently been a development benchmark for executive transport the world over. Smooth, powerful and functional, vision is great and you don’t realise you are driving a relatively big (4907mm)" car .
Along with gloss black window surrounds and roof rails and associated M badging, the $4700 M-Sport pack adds 19-inch alloy wheels, sports suspension, more aggressive front and rear bumpers, supportive sport seats and a thick-rimmed steering wheel €" the latter an absolute delight to hold. Missing from the car'€™s standard equipment list, and a $3700 option, however, is a panoramic glass sunroof.
Fitting a child seat was pretty easy. The Touring allows you to half-fold the rear seats forward so you can quickly thread the seat harness to the anchor point on the boot floor. There are three anchor points (two on the floor, one on the back of the middle seat) but fitting three child seats across the back row would be a tight fit.
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