In a world of increasingly popular luxury SUVs and crossovers, finding an older, reliable sedan or wagon can be a breath of fresh air. There are still a handful of manufacturers producing new luxury sedans, but not everybody desires a six-figure loan weighing them down. With that being said, there are eight BMW 5 Series generations, so you have plenty to choose from. In this article, we cover the fourth through the seventh generations, since these are recent enough to have an abundance of reliability data available, and some are old enough to avoid the electronics-dependent age of BMW‘s luxury cars.
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