After months of procrastination, I have finally chosen a new 5 Series SE Touring to replace my "Brilliant Silver" Mercedes E270.
When it comes to colour choice, black or some sort of metallic silver, grey or blue seems the obvious default choice from the somewhat limited BMW palate (compare with Audi or Volvo) - it's what everyone else has after all.
But the other half quite fancies deep green, having decided that all these, together with gold, burgundy et al were definitely out. I quite liked black but decided it liked to much like a hearse in SE mode so I had settled on silver but am being told I should open my mind and buck the trend, and, besides, it will match her green Mk1 MX-5 on the drive.
I'm not so sure and I've never seen a 5 in green, and it struck me that it's seems to be disappearing from our roads as a colour - as if to prove the point, the only green in my son's entire Top Trumps Supercars book is an old Aston Martin Zagato...
I am quite happy to go for it but I can't help there's a reason there aren't many about - or am I sucked into thinking silver etc is the only option. Order gets confirmed tomorrow...
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Green - nice,, I've seen that colour on a showroom 5 saloon...
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My understanding was Silver is now yesterday's colour and black is now the new silver.
I've always quite liked BMWs in a sort of deep red/maroon colour. Anything but Silver. Saw a nice E39 BMW estate in light metallic blue which looked smart and different. Certainly made it stand out a bit from the endless grey/silver parade.
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Although the major benefit of silver is it stays looking clean much longer than the dark colours.
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Green is one of the worst colours to sell on - if you talk to anybody in the trade, they will advise you to keep well clear.!!! Stick to silver and you will not regret it come resale time.!!
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Green is one of the worst colours to sell on - if you talk to anybody in the trade they will advise you to keep well clear.!!!
Even proper BRG?
>>Stick to silver and you will not regret it come resale time.!!
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I feel sure this is the best advice.
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Green looks awful as an SE, but is acceptable as a Sport. Whether this is becuase the E60 in general looks awful as an SE and is acceptable as a Sport I will leave to you to decide ;)
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I specified my 2001Y BMW 530ISE Touring in Oxford Green II. I think iit looks good and the colour is reminiscent British Racing Green. I also just felt there were too many blue, silver & black cars around and wanted a bit of originality
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I've got an e39 in Oxford Green II as well.
One thing that I might add is that if I was to replace with another 5er I would not go for an SE model as the suspension is far too soft and bouncy and my passengers feel sick quite often. Not sure if this is the same with an e61 or not.
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I used to have a dark green Lexus IS200.
It looked really great for 1-2 days after cleaning and then became hideously dirty...
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FiL has a dark green 3 series, whcih always looks smart to me. The shades BMW use seem to go equally well with chrome or black trim. Or if you're concerned about trade-in values, BMW's dark blue metallic also looks good - and at least its not silver!
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Green? It'll cost you come resale time. Don't do it!
Also, take care to spec it carefully with a few nice extras that'll help it stand out when it's time to sell. Hope you're not going for a 520d - a big car like that needs more muscle.
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take care to spec it carefully
Well take extra care by the look of it... Doh!
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Well, it's a company car so I don't have to worry about trade in come the time to say good bye, but not sure I could live with the colour myself - it looks like it could be as bad as black to keep clean and I can't help thinking that German cars don't go well with "British" racing green. I simply haven't seen one in the flesh and not many seem to be out there.
The better half thinks a bit of spontaneity is called for and I should buck the trend - it is, after all, a car - but I think it might be metallic grey - seeing as I am not allowed anything else apparently...
Interesting what was said about ride and engine size. Can't help thinking M Sport package looks too "sheep in wolf's clothing" on anything less than a 535, so was going for more earthly SE spec. I was actually ordering the 525d until I saw last week that the 520d was being ugraded to 177bhp in September, with vastly reduced CO2, which means a considerable saving over a 525d or old 520d (i am having an auto).
My E270CDi auto had huge torque (315lbs worth) but "only" 170hp, so assumed an upgraded 520d would be sufficient (I have driven the current one which seems adequate, if not a ball of fire)but I haven't pressed the order button yet...
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I always thought that the original 5 touring was a lovely looking car in green, it looked good with the matt black bits, and they still look equally as good now.
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In my experience dark green is one of the colours which is less visible to other drivers. My first two new cars were dark green and dark blue respectively and they both suffered a lot of damage when parked in carparks. As soon as I changed to bright colours the problem ceased. It might have been a coincidence but I'm not going to risk buying dark colours again.
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L\'escargot.
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