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ELECTRONICALLY REPRINTED FROM<br />
ISSUE 55 // APRIL 2010<br />
FOR DRIVERS CHANGING THE<br />
BMW's New 5-Series Looks To Recapture<br />
The Executive Sedan Market<br />
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This is generation six of the BMW 5-Series sedan<br />
and it must re-conquer the world's number one<br />
premium sedan sales spot from the Audi A6.<br />
By our drive, it will. By Matt Davis<br />
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—Lisbon, Portugal<br />
Roughly ter the intraof-<br />
37 years<br />
duction of<br />
the first-generation 5-Series, the<br />
Bavarians in the statistics de-<br />
partment verified that the first<br />
five generations of the 5-Series<br />
together have sold “more than<br />
5,555,555 units.” The 2011<br />
BMW 535i sedan, driven just<br />
now all over west-central Portu-<br />
gal, and around the thirteen-turn<br />
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