by Vijay Pattni

Looks like BMW has been at it with the Lego again – this is the new BMW 5 Series GT.

The newest mongrel in the BMW family mixes up saloon driving dynamics, a coupe profile and interior space equivalent to Beemer’s groundbreaking X5 SUV.

The result is a car which Bee-Em reckons is a “future-oriented extension of the 5 Series” – one of the finest executive saloons available.

Love it or hate it, this new BMW GT still packs the legendary firepower Munich has made famous, and the 5 Series GT will get three tyre-shredding engines.

The ‘entry-level’ 530d GT offers up 245bhp together with a 43.5mpg average fuel consumption. For a 2-tonne car which accelerates from 0-62mph in 6.9 seconds, is astonishing.

Next up is the award-winning 3-litre twin-turbo unit found in the 535i GT.

The 535i GT gets a fabulously creamy 306bhp straight-six and a 0-62mph time of just 6.3 seconds, followed by the range-topping 550i GT, which packs a 4.4-litre V8 and 407bhp.

The 550i GT sprints to 62mph in 5.5 seconds – just a shade slower than the new BMW Z4 sDrive35i – and will hit a limited 155mph.

BMW claim the 5 Series GT is the perfect blend of driver fun and motorway muncher – and we hardly need to explain that they’re sort of good at building great driver’s cars.

The GT has a 440-litre boot which extends to 1,700-litres with the seats folded, while interior legroom is the same as the BMW 7 Series.

The high-seating position points to the GT’s generous interior space – said to be the same as the X5 – and together with the iDrive and ‘Black Panel’ technology, gives the driver “maximum supremacy at all times”.

The chassis gets four suspension settings – Comfort, Normal, Sport and Sport +, and the GT comes loaded with enough electronic nannys to make K.I.T.T. look archaic, including cruise control, a high-beam assistant, lane departure warning, speed limit info, BMW night vision and an emergency call function.

The 5 Series GT goes on sale later this year with prices announced closer to the date.

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