BMW 535d Touring: car review | William Fotheringham
by William Fotheringham from Technology | The Guardian on (#KJRQ)
A combination of power and endurance meant German cyclists excelled at this year's Tour de France, but none were a match for BMW's latest 5-Series Touring
Price 45,320
MPG 46.3
Top speed 155mph
It's Tour of Spain time and the Tour of Britain is round the corner, but one memory from July's Tour de France sticks in my mind. As I drove up the A6 through Burgundy having spent weeks trailing the peloton through the Pyrenees and the Alps, I spotted a figure on a bridge. As I passed he started waving wildly at me. Had he spotted the race sticker on my windscreen or did he like the look of the BMW I was driving? Or both?
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