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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Turn up the whale song and enjoy the 60mph limit


Turn up the whale song and enjoy the 60mph limit

Jeremy Clarkson Published: 19 January 2014
BMW 5 Series M Sport
BMW 520d M Sport, £34,330
THERE ARE a handful of cars on the market today that are demonstrably better than all of their rivals. These include the Volkswagen Up!, the Ford Fiesta ST, the Skoda Yeti, the Range Rover TDV8, the McLaren P1 and, an object lesson in how to crush your competition, the Usain Bolt of motoring, the BMW 530d.
I look sometimes at people driving a Mercedes E-class or a Jaguar XF and I can’t help wondering: “What were you thinking of?”
The 530 diesel is unbelievably economical, yet it is also extremely fast. The engine is as refined and as discreet as the butler service in a top-class Hong Kong hotel, the comfort is otherworldly and the interior is like the centre spread of Kevin McCloud’s head. Plus, if you were to take it to a racetrack, you would discover that beneath the elegant

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