BMW will refresh its models of the upper middle class. This, among other things, engines, 48-Volt electric assistance, brings under the hood the 5-series sedan, the 5 series Touring and 6 series Gran Turismo.
Munich (dpa/tmn) – BMW refreshes the BMW 5 and 6 series. The 5-series sedan, the Touring, and the 6-series Gran Turismo to get to the start of sales in July not only a retouched Design with a larger kidney grille and newly designed lights, but especially optimized, with a 48-Volt Mild-Hybrid System-equipped engines.
in addition, the equipment is advanced, and the electronics with new driver assistance and Infotainment functions to the cloud-based Navigation, as well as the now standard Digital Cockpit on the front man, so BMW more.
The prices begin due to this change, then 49 100 euros for the 5-series sedan and 51 300 Euro for the more traditional Touring combination. The coupéartige 6-series Gran Turismo will be sold starting from 62 EUR 800.
electric motor helps during Start-up and gaining energy.
Technically, the most important new feature is the 48-Volt Mild-Hybrid System, which now comes in all Four – and six-cylinder engines. It uses an 8 kW/11 HP strong electric Motor and a Lithium-ion buffer battery, in order to accelerate the Start-up and to recover braking energy.
The result will be a better Sprint, and more efficiency, BMW. Who is at least partially pure electric would like to drive the BMW in the 5 series now also a Plug-in hybrid for Touring.
The engine range extends up to 530 HP V8
a choice of two gasoline engines with 185 kW/252 HP or 225 kW/333 HP and three Diesel with 140 kW/190 HP to 250 kW/340 PS are then available in all three body styles. For the 5 series there is a base diesel with 135 kW/184 HP as well as a Top-model, the M550i with a 390 kW/530 HP V8 engine.
there is Also a sedan, two Plug-in gasoline engine with a system output of 215 kW/292 HP or 290 kW/394 HP and up to 62 miles of electric range. In the Touring, only the weaker variant is used.
For the part-time stromer is called BMW consumption values of the best case, to 1.9 litres and CO2 emissions by 43 g/km. For the gas values between 4.1 liters of Diesel (108 g/km) and 9.7 liters of gasoline (221 g/km) in the data sheet are.
