The 2021 BMW 5 Series facelift – or the G30 LCI in BMW-speak – has just been leaked online. Seen here in M Sport form, the pair of photos that appeared on BMW Blog shows a much sleeker face for the executive sedan’s mid-life update, along with a mildly updated rear end with new taillight graphics.
Starting at the front, the most prominent new feature is of course the conjoined Kidney Grille, the G30 now joining the rest of the BMW range. Thankfully, however, the grille has not grown in size like it did on the 7 Series LCI, instead looking more in line with the smaller 3 Series. The fully chromed vertical slats look rather fetching too.
The rest of the front end follows the G20 3er rather closely, now with slimmer and notched headlamps (along with revised LED DRLs) and, at least in this M Sport guise, familiar looking front bumper design too. Overall, it’s quite a significant visual bump for the 5 Series, at least to these eyes.
Round the back, the changes are limited to a set of new LED lamps. They appear to be darkened, again much like the 3 Series, along with flashier graphics – though they do remind me of Honda, for some reason. The bumper looks identical to the pre-facelift model at first, but on closer inspection appear to have sharper, more chiselled surfacing around the corners.
Another interesting detail is the 530e badge, laying to rest rumours of the plug-in hybrid G30 LCI being upgraded to the inline-six engine seen in the 745Le (badged the 740Le here in Malaysia) and the X5 xDrive45e. The electrified 2.0 turbo four looks set to soldier on, then.
Official details will be announced soon, but until then, what do you think of the 2021 BMW 5 Series facelift? Let us know in the comments section below.
GALLERY: Pre-facelift G30 BMW 530e M Sport
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Come to Malaysia confirm without AEB, which means consumers should vote with their wallets and boycott BMW brand in Malaysia and buy the x70. Let those brand snobs lala zai who likes to act rich to buy those bmws
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front is nice. back looks a bit cheap.
nonetheless, its rare to see a good looking bmw these days.
Civic ketam rear lights? Or is that new Perdana ones?
Sheer driving pleasure..
the ultimate driving machine..now sleeker. the best 5 series design so far
Very boring car. Similar outlook, similar interior, same technology. Driven F10 earlier, no feel at all to continue with BMW
Looks good. But it does appear like quite a bit of work done for an LCI. They changed the shape of front and rear headlamps even. Not just inside the lamp, but the lamp itself. Which means those who have the pre LCI, cannot change to LCI lamps unless they change the fenders and bumpers too.
If they had to do that much of change for the facelift, it shows the car isn’t doing well against the competition.
Dude, all Japanese brands today are pretty much just only putting their logos.
now everyone in the family looks the same….duh
Nothing to shout about. This new G30 can easily be mistaken as 3 series Externally from the first glance.Or at best still has the general looks of the current M sport model. I would rather keep my F10 despite the many facelifts in between.