{"id":706419,"date":"2010-03-31T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/big-stretch-bmw-reveals-long-wheelbase-5-series-for-china-w-vi\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T21:17:00","slug":"big-stretch-bmw-reveals-long-wheelbase-5-series-for-china-wvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706419","title":{"rendered":"Big Stretch: BMW reveals long-wheelbase 5 Series for China [w\/video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sedans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sedan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/china\/\" rel=\"tag\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/bmw\/\" rel=\"tag\">BMW<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/luxury\/\" rel=\"tag\">Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/big-stretch-bmw-reveals-long-wheelbase-5-series-for-china-w-vi\/#continued\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/bmw5-longwhlchi.jpg?w=780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Chinese-market long-wheelbase BMW 5 Series &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery. Videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/big-stretch-bmw-reveals-long-wheelbase-5-series-for-china-w-vi\/#continued\">after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nIf there&#8217;s one thing a Mandarin enjoys, it&#8217;s being chauffeured. And because China has no small number of the world&#8217;s Mandarins, BMW has created a long-wheelbase 5 Series exclusively built in and provided for that market. The model is produced in BMW&#8217;s Shenyang plant, where it&#8217;s given an extra 5.5 inches for the rear passengers who travel in &#8220;luxurious grand touring comfort&#8221; due to the rear axle tailored to each model. These CDM specials even get a bespoke rear seat.<\/p>\n<p>Three engines are to be offered in outputs starting at 204 horsepower and going up to 306 hp. You can check out all the info in the presser and videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/big-stretch-bmw-reveals-long-wheelbase-5-series-for-china-w-vi\/#continued\">after the jump<\/a>, and get good looks at 7 Series-sized 5 Series in our high-res gallery below.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/bmw-5-series-long-wheelbase-for-china\/low\/\">BMW 5 Series Long Wheelbase for China<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/bmw-5-series-long-wheelbase-for-china\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/01bmw5-longwhlchi_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/bmw-5-series-long-wheelbase-for-china\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/02bmw5-longwhlchi_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/bmw-5-series-long-wheelbase-for-china\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/03bmw5-longwhlchi_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/bmw-5-series-long-wheelbase-for-china\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/04bmw5-longwhlchi_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/bmw-5-series-long-wheelbase-for-china\/low\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/05bmw5-longwhlchi_thumbnail.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: BMW]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/big-stretch-bmw-reveals-long-wheelbase-5-series-for-china-w-vi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Big Stretch: BMW reveals long-wheelbase 5 Series for China [w\/video]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/big-stretch-bmw-reveals-long-wheelbase-5-series-for-china-w-vi\/\">Big Stretch: BMW reveals long-wheelbase 5 Series for China [w\/video]<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:17:00 EST.  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Videos after the jump If there&#8217;s one thing a Mandarin enjoys, it&#8217;s being chauffeured. And because China has no small number of the world&#8217;s Mandarins, BMW has created a long-wheelbase 5 Series exclusively built in and provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XLR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}