TESTED 15.5.24, BAVARIA, GERMANY ON SALE NOW
Ten minutes from BMW's Garching test centre, north of Munich, I realise that as goes personal transport for the modern Bavarian family, this is surely the Platonic ideal. Office blocks have petered out, replaced by postcard-perfect commuter hamlets. The sun shines, fields are impossibly green in that way unique to central Europe and these undulating country roads are smoother than Barry White's larynx. The transport itself is the latest in a three-decade line of long snouted, big-booted BMWs and the most serene there has ever been.
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