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If you can't find an older 5-series that you like, drive at least one E39... recently posted in technical section...

...the best car ever featured on Top Gear also happens to be the car I’d put forward as the best car ever made. In the world.

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You see, I used to own a 528i myself – a saloon which I bought in 2011, with 120,000 miles on the clock and finished in a dubious shade of pale metallic green known by BMW as Glacier Green.

It had a difficult task on its hand when it arrived. A lifelong BMW sceptic, I’d been persuaded into buying one by some BMW-loving colleagues who’d touted its various merits and described the E39 as “the best car in the world”.

Well, blow me down if they weren’t right. Even with its considerable mileage, my 528i still felt tight as a button. It was spacious, comfortable, fast, smooth, rode beautifully, handled deftly, and looked great. It even managed deeply respectable fuel economy, bettering a friend’s 1.6-litre Volkswagen Golf on a long run.

I drove it everywhere. I put 30,000 miles on it in the two years I had it, and those miles included a trip across to Austria in the depths of January, shod with winter tyres. It crossed a mountain pass in a blizzard; the temperature outside was -20C, but the BMW pressed on without breaking stride, all the while warming our posteriors with its heated seats.

More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/top-gear/why-top-gears-greatest-ever-car-was-a-1500-bmw-banger/

Also: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/bmw-5-series-e28-e34-e39-e60-f10-gt/916058-5-series-bmw-any-high-mileage-users-here.html#post9143456