Officially Official: 2011 BMW 5 Series Touring is too cool for American families

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  1. wagonmaster

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    Yup, even your family, you Yankee wagon-hater you. Sadly, this is not only true, but we've known about it for some time. Americans, it seems, are so in love with all modes of transportation that are slightly raised up off the ground that we have no appetite for station wagons. Even sporty ones. So says BMW. Instead, we get the rather mutated looking Gran Turismo. Just sayin'. With that out of the way, allow us to introduce you to the 2011 BMW 5 Series Touring, "Touring" being the preferred BMW nomenclature for station wagon and/or station wagon you can't have.

    We know, we're bitter and it shows. But listen to how BMW describes the 2011 5 Series Touring, "The new BMW 5 Series Touring is the perfect symbiosis of driving pleasure, efficiency, versatility and sporting elegance." We want that, right? After all, there's really nothing new here except the fact that it's a station wagon. One, we might add, that we can't have! Again, there's nothing really new here.

    At heart, we're talking about the new BMW F10 5 Series, a car we like very much. And if you click through the gallery of the new Touring, you'll notice just how easy it is to fit your dog into the back of it. Well, not your dog, if you know what we're getting at. Once again, *sigh.* Full press release after the jump.


    Gallery: 2011 BMW 5 Series Touring

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    It's not a station wagon, most of these new so called "station wagons" aren't, including that Chrysler thing. It has to have more quarter panel than door width, enough room for full size spare storage behind the rear wheel and room for an average size person to lie down in the back with the second seat folded down give or take a few inches. Those things just have enhanced trunk lids with skylights, it's not a wagon.:disagree::p
    You couldn't even get decent sized ladders on the roof, won't even be good for house painter's when they're beat. The Vista Cruisers were spared because thet lump on the roof made it hard to stack ladders.;)
    The Furd Galaxie was the king of house painter vehicles around these here parts.
    All rise for the smoke belching broken framed rustbuckets chugging along with pink house paint dripping on the road through the rust holes in the floor!:rofl:
     
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    Well said Blue Vista!
     
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    I tend to believe if the rear doors open normally and don't slide, then it's a wagon, not a mini van. (Please excuse my use of the m word.) Ford always marketed their Freestyle/Taurus X as a "crossover", but I'd like to think of mine as a wagon. A stretch, admittedly, but as close to a long roof as I could get at the time.
     
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