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. Body and Safety:
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Consistent Occupant Safety.
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New: aluminium doors with frameless windows.
Extra-strong body structure and wide range of pedestrian safety features.
Two-piece tailgate with unique construction and function qualities.
The innovative and truly versatile character of the BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo
is attributable in particular to a number of unique body features. The concept
ideas clearly expressed from the start in the design of the car are converted into
reality in the construction process, ensuring all the functionality and premium
quality so typical of BMW. Innovative, technically very demanding solutions in
body construction ensure a unique combination of sporting elegance, personal
luxury and modern variability of the highest standard, setting yet another
important foundation for the new driving experience in a BMW.
Through its intelligently conceived body structure combined with numerous
safety components, the BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo offers a perfectly
coordinated all-round system for optimising occupant safety. Indeed, the
BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo is designed from the start to reduce the possible
consequences of all kinds of accidents to an absolute minimum for both the
driver and his passengers, thus fulfilling all the requirements for excellent results
in all crash tests relevant the world over.
Appropriate use of high-strength and ultra-high-strength steel as well as a large
number of aluminium components serves to combine superior body strength
with relatively low weight. At the same time the excellent torsional stiffness of
the body, just like the optimisation of weight, makes an additional contribution to
the superior driving dynamics of the BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo.
The quality of lightweight construction ensuring supreme torsional stiffness
of the car in relation to its footprint on the road and the weight of the vehicle
likewise ranks right at the top.
Innovative in both design and construction: the aluminium doors.
Apart from the engine compartment lid and the front spring supports on
the body, the doors on the BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo are also made of
aluminium. At the same time they are an outstanding design and construction
| Categories | BMW 5-Series Manuals, BMW Manuals |
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| Tags | BMW 530d, BMW 535i, BMW 550i, BMW F07, BMW Gran Turismo, Brochure and Catalogue |
| Model Year | 2010 |
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