We’re now a couple of thousand miles into our 5-series Touring’s life and we’re starting to discover all those details that can make you fall in (or out) of love with a car.
The boot is the perfect example of this. If you’ve parked too close to something, or just don’t need to open the whole rear hatch, you can open the rear screen to load the boot. To help loading, using either the full hatch or screen, BMW has designed the boot cover to automatically release to an intermediate position angled upward. This is useful – right up until you get back into the driver’s seat, glance in the rear view mirror and spot you’ve not put the cover back down. At which point you swear, get back out and correct the issue. It’s something we’re just going to have to remember to do every time, but it catches everyone who drives the 520d more than once.
Meanwhile, under the lockable boot floor is a neatly divided storage area suitable for laptops and the like. Under this is where the spare wheel would be in a normal car, but because the 5 is on runflat tyres the wheel-well is available as an extra storage area, which BMW has lined so it’s not bare metal. Now that’s a thoughtful touch.
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