BMW 5-series Touring · 540i Executive · Wagon · 2000 ‐ 2002

BMW launched manufacture in 2000 of cars type 5-series Touring, modification of 540i touring Executive and terminated it in 2002. In this automobile can sit 5 people total, it has the body type of a wagon with 5 doors, and length 4.8 meters, weight 1.8 tons.

«5-series Touring 540i touring Executive» have a rear wheel drive car with a 5-speed sequential automatic transmission. This vehicle can speed up for 6.7 s to 100 km/h, with a maximum speed of 250 km/h, thanks to a 8-cylinders petrol motor engine with a «multipoint injection fuel system», which generate a maximum power of 286 hp at 5400 rpm.

Fuel tank volume of this vehicle is 70 liters of petrol, so when medium fuel rate is 12.8 liters per 100 km (9.2 l on the track, 18.9 liters in the city), accordingly allows to go nearly 547 kilometers unrefuelled.

The forward wheels of this auto have ventilated disks, 324 mm brakes and fixed to the underframe with help of suspension type «MacPherson, independent, coil springs» and equipped with anti-roll bar. Rear wheels have ventilated disks, 298 mm brakes and attached to the chassis using suspension «Multilink, coil springs» and equipped sway bar. Tires have the next measure - 225/55WR16.

According to the results of Euro NCAP crash test, this model of BMW 5-series Touring gained the lot number of stars - 4, indicating that it is a reasonably safe automobile. In addition to passive safety (driver, head/curtain, passenger, side airbags), it is also has active safety systems such as Traction control, ESP, EBD, ABS, Brake assistant.