2019-04-01 BMW Car

APRIL 2019 5

CONTENTS

52 Understanding tyres

Part 1: They might be round,

black and sticky, but there’s a

lot more to tyres than you might

think, as Elizabeth de Latour explains

58 BMW buying

Lucky enough to have a twenty-five

grand budget for your next car?

Guy Baker recommends five

of the best used BMWs at this

price point

Workshop

66 Sound surgeons

Most of us would like our

BMWs to sound better and, as

Chris Graham discovers,

Scorpion Exhausts Ltd has the

experience, skill and expertise

to make it happen

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Features

12 First drive: X5 M50d
Read the vital stats on this new
X5 and you’ll wonder how they can
relate to a two-tonne luxury SUV
but, as Shane O’ Donoghue
discovers, they certainly do

40 My dream garage
Chris Graham reveals the three
BMW models that he’d choose
to have in his garage, if money
was no object

45 A forgotten classic?
The Neue Klasse saloon is oft
credited with being the car that
saved BMW but, as Bob Harper
explains, without the 700 the
company would have folded
before the Neue Klasse
left the drawing board. Here
we celebrate the 700’s
60th birthday

72 Swirl flaps DIY

Andrew Everett tackles the removal

of the dreaded swirl flaps on a 120d,

and does some valuable de-coke

work at the same time

78 Our cars

More ups and downs from the

home fleet

86 Simple strut swap

Workshop guru Andrew Everett

demonstrates a clever, time-saving

way to change the front suspension

struts found on the popular E8x

1 Series and E9x 3 Series models

90 Trouble-shooter

E34 5 Series: Andrew Everett gets

under the skin of a model of which

he has more than a few fond

memories

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