The new facelifted E60 BMW 5-series has been spotted making it’s rounds slightly disguised. Among changes on the front end include a newly designed bumper, with fog lamps now positioned closer to the center of the bumper instead of closer to the edges, as well as redesigned headlamps. You can have a look at the comparison above, where the new slightly disguised facelifted E60 BMW 5-series front end fascia is at the top, while the current E60 5-series design is on the bottom.
The new facelifted E60 BMW 5-series will also receive BMW’s new shift by wire gear shift that first appeared on the 7-series in a steering column stalk form, then adapted to be positioned more traditionally in the center console area in the new E70 BMW X5.
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any idea when is this new one available in msia? i wonder if the nap would see further reduction in pricing…
That shifter looks cheap and stupidly complicated. Why can't they design something close to the shifter like in the M5 or M6?
Looks like Bangle is giving the E60 a lesser Darth-vader look by softening the side arches of lower bumper. Beside de-Dvadering, its give the car a smoother appearance and less angular.
Just put the GShifter on the s.wheel columm like the Merc did for their S-series. Unintrusive, yet functional. The console would look much neater, rather than this oddly bent looking stick protruding out.
same as the new X5, this 5 also had eat too much…
and grew bigger in size…
the light looks dull than before… like the eagle eyes more…
The lights dont really look different to me.
Again on different standard. The manual shift up and down – in this case the up shift is to pull down and donw shift pull up. Why can't they just standardise it to shift up pull up etc… F..king confusing…
playstation joy stick,aa
look at the hole where mount the pivot of the gear stick ,look untidy,uurgh
still prefer normal shape shifter with leather gear boot even sequential shift,
The M5-sourced gearstick must be a dummy to confuse press photos. But I must say the so-called facelift is very minor to be of a headline.
If I was the BMW design director, I would scrap the eagle-eye headlamps by now because as aggressive as they are, they can get old very quickly.
I feel the E90 will age slower than the E60. But do you know that the E90 was designed by the same guy who designed the E39? And get this – hes Japanese!
errr… like gen2 ler… heheheh…
Does the repositioning of the fog lights constitutes as a face-lift ????
cyber,
Let me see if I can try and explain the logic of shifting that BMW is using. Agree when the manual shifting was introduced it was push forward for up shift and down/back for down shift.
What BMW discovered was when you are accelerating hard and pulling Gs you tend to be "pinned" to your seat, so for "quick" shifting, it would be easier to pull to up shift as you are pilling on speed, than to push forward. So when you are slowing down the momentum of the car and your body is a forward motion thus pushing to down shift would be easier and "faster".
Just my 2 cents.
Right move by BMW, there is no need to make significant changes as this current design is a decade ahead of competition.
Don Juan is correct. That's why touring car racing uses the same shifting logic
but do u know that current mazdas use the same logic as well?
SatriaGuy: I just found out today with the mazda3.
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