I saw a new BMW 5-series model today on my way to Herrsching/Ammersee in South Germany.
What can I say? The car looks even more ugly than on pictures. I'm not kidding. It looks even worse than the 7-series, like somebody tried very hard to make a modern art sculpture out of the 5-series and didn't fully succeed. Strange looks and I don't think I can get used to it.
So no matter how much HP the new M5 will have, it looks horrible. The M3 looks nice, the new Z4 already looks a little bit strange and I can even live with the 7-series but the new 5-series is a huge shock for me. I already saw pictures in different car magazines but what I saw today was really butt ugly. My wife couldn't believe her eyes either, she thought that was a new Hyundai. No kidding again.
The 5-series is a very important product for BMW and it sells very very well over here in Germany among the ages 40-50, a very popular limousine. I doubt BMW will have the same success with the new 5-series, it looks way too weird.