Front end looks alright. Rear needs help to prevent looking like that awful x6. Just make it a wagon please.

Those mirrors looks stupid. Fix them.

Lame

Can’t wait to see all the D-Bags lining up at the dealer trading in their X6 for this one!

MORE design failures from MORE companies … I am sick of seeing my roads littered with trash.

Jake- Will it be the D-Bags, or the latte-swilling, huge sunglass wearing, kid in the backseat yelling “She-Bags”?

I figure the SheBags will stick to the x6. The DBags will want to think they’re driving something cool. The Shebags will just want to sit up higher.

Impulsive- I have to agree with your subjective personal opinion on this one. It’s not pretty.

Scenario: Man walks into a BMW showroom.

- Man: “Hello dealer”
- Dealer: “Hello sir.”
- Man: “I’m looking for a 5-series wagon, only, i want it to be lamer, uglier, and less practical”
- Dealer: “I’ve got just the thing for you. the P.O.S…ahem, I mean, P.A.S.”
- Man: “Great, here’s my money.”
- Dealer: “Thank you. Did I mention I also have a bridge in Nigeria that I would like to sell you…”

this “car” is growing on me.

Such an effeminate vehicle.

It’s no coincidence Bangle decided to leave BMW shortly after the X6 and right before the GT was launched!

What is the point of this thing?

Nobody pays attention to a “That’s ugly” comment, but hell, that’s really ugly and lame.

ummmmmmmm id much rather have the wagon than this shipwreck

it looks like a 7-series wagon, they put the wrong numbers on the back. once they change the number, and offer it with awd, then it will be cool

If you don’t want a fully useful wagon, the 5 sedan is not big enough, and the X6 is too high, then I guess this is the car for you. Can we slice this pie a little more thinly?? Next will be the jacked up 5 Sedan, like a 5 Sedan Outback or something.

Is there really a market for this or even a spot in BMW’s lineup for this “thing”?

Dumb. A bloated ugly pig.

Now we only need a convertible version and a pickup version. That should corner the rest of this niche.

To me this is BMW’s cheap and “practical” answer to MB’s CLS… hey at least it’s got the semi-low roof… FAIL!

If BMW can afford to bring crap like this to the US, why can’t Audi bring me one god damn S3?

Back end looking like a Prius?

I swear I posted somewhere that I’ve spewed chunks that look better than this BMW.

One look at that pile of crap and I surely can understand why Audi is winning the war against BMW…

I love hatchbacks and wagon, but there is little to love in this thing. Something wrong with it: like the first glimpse at the retard; you are not sure what is wrong with it but you detect anomaly.

Ugly POS, I’d get an A6 Avant instead.

Borat, I love hatchbacks and wagons too, but hey, everything to it’s place;
No spaghetti in my hair, no hair in my spaghetti. This would be a meatball in my underpant -At first it seems to belong there and it’s OK, then you realize it’s not.

So essentially it’s a 5 series wagon that seats 4 and less cargo room….

What’s wrong with the standard wagon?

I LOVE BMW’s but first you ruin the styling with Bangle and now your product planners ruin the entire company with **** like this?

Let’s see…what’s the word I’m looking for…oh yeah:

Yuck

The Toyota Venza gives this thing the beat-down…

What happened???

My god… it is BMW’s version of the Prius.

What a tragedy… and I thought the X6 was garbage.

What is wrong with Bimmer these days? None of their new cars make any sense.

First it was the X-3 because the X-5 was too big… now the new X-3 is going to be the size of the old X-5, and they’re making an X-1 because *gasp* the X-3 is too big.

Then they bring out the rediculous 1-series…. 75% of a 3-series for 90% of the price. That car makes no sense.

And it’s on to the X-6… a horrible looking half-breed cross of a 6-series and a X-5. There’s even an M version incase you want to see ugly really get up and hustle.

Now we see the 5-series GT… which looks like a wagon that was aborted in the 3rd trimester. Either that or it is a sedan with a Gross Tumor on its trunk… I can’t decide.

Soon enough BMW will have more models than GM… and that’s saying something!

One of these should always be situated in front of the podium anytime there is a debate on the abortion issue.

I’m pro-death

Wow, inbreeding really does result in severe birth defects.

If I would send a letter to a car company it would not be Toyota first, but BMW for making the X6 and now this 5-series Gran Turismo. What’s next? The 2015 BMW X4? A X3 version of the X6?

I like BMW’s, but this thing is UGLY and won’t sell.

so…the term “FUGLY” is no longer accepted in LLN???

Heinous as this thing is, what’s unforgivable is that backlight pretending to be twice as big as it actually is. Unforgivably dishonest design. We are not amused.

Burn it ! Burn it with fire !

Oh, they were actually serious?

Still and all, wit da offerings das out now from all the other car companies, luxury or not, it aint too bad. Just about everything out now is either weird, fugly, or just plain weak!

Of course, everybody and their mother is on the “hate new BMW’s” bandwagon but as usual, when the design proves to be a relative success, those same idiots will be rushing to emulate the originator. Happened with flame surfacing and I’ll bet my bottom dollar that there will be 5 Series GT wannabees by 2012.

Where’s the rear wiper?

Oh, maybe it’s in a secret compartment that is only activated when the weather radar indicates rain ahead. It is called Rain Ahead Wiper Activation Sensor with GPS Integration or RAWASGI. The 1st release of the RAWASGI core software is the Automotive Windows Vista Mobile Kernel or AWVMK 1.0. It’s expected to be in Beta test throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle.

AMG will be doing a high performance version of the wiper with 20″ platinum arms (with baked on flat black powder coating as a theft deterrent) and a 48 volt electric motor with Variable Speed Hydroplaning Blade Technology.

It’s nice to see that no one in Germany is bored with jobs designing real world cars.

she’s nasty

’shane’, it’s only subjective when anyone else posts their view, where it could be argued … when I post, it’s OBJECTIVE because I only post FACT. Always correct. Always nonpartisan. Always true.

Just like the 370Z, this turd fails in the design department … OBJECTIVE FACT.

Impulsive- Thanks for the continued subjective input, but we’ve heard your personal opinion already.

Will Mercedes copy BMW’s design failure?

http://www.cwwcardesign.com/cars/mercedes_e_concept.html

What an ugly car. And what’s the point of an 8-speed tranny?

You will continue to read my personal, OBJECTIVE, FACTUAL, correct, nonpartisan views as they are needed here. Most of you have no taste in automobiles and little to knowledge in most everything in life that you need OBJECTIVE and FACTUAL information to know what is right. Your welcome.

That should have read “little to no knowledge” and “you’re welcome” … I figure I need to clarify or the dolts, like ’shane’, will be lost.

Im gonna hold out for the convertible M version.

Impulsive, I agree with you, my most UNBIASED, UNPREJUDICED, and IMPARTIAL applause for you!

Ewww. Looks like a cross between a Saab, a Volvo and your mother-in-law.

‘mbgg’, good to see another quality poster here.

Very ugly. The X6 makes little sense to me but once I saw a couple of them on the road i was thinking – its a nice niche vechile. But this ride is really ugly. And one would have hoped that the interior at least by extremely sexy to make up for the exterior. I am not sure what BMW is doing here. Complain about Bangle all you want – look at Bimmer’s sales during his reign? No wonder more and more of us in gen X are looking at Audi and Jag.

Landgraf, GLK aside, Mercedes isn’t used to model failures, maybe some detail in an existing model cause a stir (eg. New E-Class rear lights) but never a whole model.
And MB doesn’t need this, it would cannibalize CLS sells.

Vat ze shizer iz zees?

It will sell well. An upmarket sports tourer that will give you the premium image but not
sacrifice on practicality? sounds like a middle management german badge
wet dream come true. The carpool will never be the same again.

Quite odd styling, for what it is it looks pretty cool though. Looks more like just an X6 lowered