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Originally Posted by WJGreer
Take it from a guy who went from an E60 sport package to an F10 a little too quickly - if the things you wrote above are important to you, you should spend a lot of time in the F10 before you commit to one. It is an excellent car, but far more like an E350 than like any 5 series of the past.
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Originally Posted by persian54
Can you please elaborate?
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The F10 is a beautiful car, and the build quality seems to be impeccable. Just rock solid. The interior feels like it should be in a much more expensive car. Quiet as a whisper inside.
But - compared to the E60, the F10 is quite a bit heavier and is sprung more loosely. I have the DHP package, and I'd say that in the Sport+ setting, it feels about 80% as tight as my sport package E60 did.
The F10 is incrementally larger than the E60 was - but in the driving, the E60 seemed to shrink around me, while the F10 feels even larger than it is.
Fast? Absolutely. The 550 is holy-crap fast and even the 535 feels faster than my V8 E60 did. I live at altitude; which has something to do with it.
So there is nothing wrong with the F10 at all, as long as you expect a car with more emphasis on luxury and less on sport, compared to the E60.
The M5, apparently, is a different story, but obviously it's at a whole other price point.