{"id":730773,"date":"2010-05-21T03:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T07:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carblog.co.za\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2010-05-21T03:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T07:38:27","slug":"bmw-5-series-gets-more-orders-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/730773","title":{"rendered":"BMW 5-Series Gets More Orders Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8064\" title=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carblog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-BMW-5-series-F10-Sedan-1.jpg?resize=570%2C428\" alt=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 1\" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BMW has done a great job in upgrading their all-new BMW 5 Series model &#8212; as a result, according to a Bloomberg report, the maker&#8217;s sales forecasts have been exceeded by a long shot. Launched in Europe this past March, the new F10 5-Series is now keeping up the flag for the German manufacturer, which as you know, in 2005 took the premium automaker crown from Mercedes-Benz &#8212; and it looks like they&#8217;re going to keep it for a while now. According to CEO Norbert Reithofer, BMW plans for &#8220;1.3 million unit sales this year&#8221;, and the new 5-Series sounds like their best bet against the recession. Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carblog.co.za\/2010\/05\/21\/bmw-5-series-gets-more-orders-than-expected\/2011-bmw-5-series-f10-sedan-6\/' title='2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 6'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carblog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-BMW-5-series-F10-Sedan-6-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 6\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.carblog.co.za\/2010\/05\/21\/bmw-5-series-gets-more-orders-than-expected\/2011-bmw-5-series-f10-sedan-4\/' title='2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 4'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carblog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-BMW-5-series-F10-Sedan-4-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 4\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.carblog.co.za\/2010\/05\/21\/bmw-5-series-gets-more-orders-than-expected\/2011-bmw-5-series-f10-sedan-5\/' title='2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 5'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carblog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-BMW-5-series-F10-Sedan-5-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.carblog.co.za\/2010\/05\/21\/bmw-5-series-gets-more-orders-than-expected\/2011-bmw-5-series-f10-sedan-3\/' title='2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 3'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carblog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-BMW-5-series-F10-Sedan-3-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 3\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.carblog.co.za\/2010\/05\/21\/bmw-5-series-gets-more-orders-than-expected\/2011-bmw-5-series-f10-sedan-2\/' title='2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 2'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carblog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-BMW-5-series-F10-Sedan-2-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 2\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.carblog.co.za\/2010\/05\/21\/bmw-5-series-gets-more-orders-than-expected\/2011-bmw-5-series-f10-sedan-1\/' title='2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 1'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.carblog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2011-BMW-5-series-F10-Sedan-1-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011 BMW 5-series F10 Sedan 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW has done a great job in upgrading their all-new BMW 5 Series model &#8212; as a result, according to a Bloomberg report, the maker&#8217;s sales forecasts have been exceeded by a long shot. Launched in Europe this past March, the new F10 5-Series is now keeping up the flag for the German manufacturer, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4557,"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-730773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-346F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730773","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\/4557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}