Category: Executive 
Price Range: £27,430 to £65,330
Handling, refinement, comfort, quality.
Too much of the clever kit is confined to the options list.
Brilliant all-round package, impressively updated.
A robust body structure keeps rattles and squeaks at bay, the doors shut with the right kind of thunk, while tasteful, high-quality trim materials provide the sumptuous cabin ambience you'd expect in a car priced from just under 30 grand. This 'E60' generation of 5-Series seems largely free of quality glitches, though there have been problems with the runflat tyres.
