Talk:BMW 5 Series (E34)

message: Nice entry.  Does anyone who has an interest in this article know whether it meets the standards for Featured Article status?  I'm still a relative newbie so I don't know how that's judged, nor how to go about nominating it.  Longshot14 18:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ready For Prime-Time? 

message: The 530i DID NOT have a V8 engine...it had a inline-6. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.133.136.148 (talk • contribs) 22:00, November 8, 2006.
:My Bentley service manual for the 5-Series credits the 94-95 530i cars with having the V8 M60.  The article mentions that some 530is do have 6 cylinder engines, though it is pretty clear they were available only in Europe.  --GargoyleMT 16:47, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  530i engine 

message: I'm well aware of the "no linkspam" policy. However, I, as an E34 owner, find the three sites below (with which I am not affiliated in any way) to be an invaluable resource for all things E34. Therefore I think that they should be in the article. Please let me know your opinions. DonIncognito 19:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Forums are generally not considered reliable sources. I have no opinion on bmwe34.net though. --AbsolutDan (talk) 20:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps not for the content of the article, but I do find these two particular ones an invaluable resource for the owner. DonIncognito 22:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok I respect your opinion. Could some other editors of this article chime in with their thoughts on the links? --AbsolutDan (talk) 00:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: Some parts of this article, notably the one about equipment, read like a brochure/car magazine review. Should this be removed as unencyclopedic?? Also, the versions available, should that be converted into a table?? 
I'm going to try and fix this article - when the errors are sorted out!! that's if there are any... --SunStar Net talk 10:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement?? 

message: seems that the images on here do not fully represent the different types of E34's availble. --Bahnstormer (talk) 22:39, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Do we bother listing theoreticals? The differential in this car is so incredibly tall that the theoretical top speed is over 200, though the engine only has enough power to get it to around 150 before it succumbs to aerodynamic drag. With performance mods it can go faster, or simply a shorter gear set. Exproject (talk) 04:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The 540i got enough power (286hp) to reach at least 170mph, if unleashed. Regular stock models are governed - i.e. electronically limited, although their power would permit them to go faster - to 150mph (early models) and 155mph (later models), respectively. The ALPINA B10 BiTurbo even does 182mph with its 360hp.  -- Alexey Topol (talk) 01:49, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  540i Top Speed. 

message: I just spotted a car with an M525i badge a few minutes ago, and a quick Google search suggests that it's an E34. Is this for real, or one of those fake badges?
Tebello TheWHAT!!?? 05:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fake as fake can be. Of course you can put ///M-parts in any E34, even a 524td, but that doesn't make it any faster. And there was never a M525i edition officially sold. There was however a 540i sold as M540i in Canada, with manual 6-speed box and some ///M parts - but not faster or more powerful than a regular 540i w/ 6-speed, either. --   Alexey Topol (talk) 01:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  M525i? 

message: The article is completely US-centered. At the beginning it says e.g. that the E34 hit the market with the 525i and the 535i - in Europe, the full palette of engines was available at the same time in 1988: 518i (M40), 520i and 525i (M20), 530i and 535i (M30), 524td (M21) plus the M5. The article should either state explicitly that it only describes the E34 sold in North America, or include the different models available around the world. -- Alexey Topol (talk) 01:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US-centric article 

message: "It was also equipped with automatic stability control (ASC) or traction control (ASC+T) in later years on higher-specification variants.[6]"
Basic ASC was in equipment list on all the time (some models), not only later years!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.191.165.232 (talk) 21:23, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  It was also equipped with automatic stability control (ASC) or traction control (ASC+T) in later years on higher-specification variants.[6] 

message: "If you are lucky enough to own the original 'E34' 535i Sport then you have 1 of approx 300 left on UK roads."
I was one of those lucky ones. Second hand cost in the UK was a mere £15,000 and the car was in A1 show room condition.
It was tireless to drive with the cruise control and I have driven at 156 mph (251 kph) on deserted motorways in Germany.
Super comfortable seats with good lumbar support, excellent auto gearbox, which I seem to remember was 5 speed with lockup on top gear, and the BBS wheels with metric tyres. A better car than any previous of later models in my opinion.
Excellent and meticulous service from the local Blue Bell BMW Cheshire UK dealership. Ian Chattan 178.116.241.191 (talk) 12:33, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  BMW 535i Sport 

message: Hi from Germany, 
unfortunately, this page is full of wrong numbers and missing informations. Like e.g. 0-60mph of the 535i in 6.5 seconds - in your dreams, people! The real number is 7.7 seconds for 0-62.137mph (i.e. 0-100kmh, which is the measure used in the rest of the world), and I doubt it will be much less than that for 0-60mph - maybe 7.5 seconds. And this is only for the sporty manual transmission 535i, the automatic transmission version (in Germany we call cars with automatic transmission "pensioner cars", since they are only driven by old folks and people with disabilities, who are not able to shift gears manually anymore, due to their aging and failing bodies) is much slower than that. 
I will take care of this E34 page in the next couple of years, bit by bit, using my access to original German information and data sources. Remember, BMW is a German manufacturer (though they also got factories all over the world nowadays, as any big corporation), so I understand that genuine information is hard to come by for Americans or other English-speakers. As a native German, I do not face the German language barrier, and hence I have easier access to all that wealth of information about the E34. I don't know whether German sources can be cited on the English wikipedia, though. It would be a shame if they could not be cited, since much of that information is not available on English language sites as of yet. -- Alexey Topol (talk) 01:56, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tons of wrong numbers and missing information 

message: I was removed part where article says that ASC was available from 1991. It is not true, such option was available earlier or even the whole time when they made 535. I even own by myself 535 with ASC from 1989 and I have seen them on sale as well with such option from late 80s.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.196.196.54 (talk) 05:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ASC and 535 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: A user at 87.110.35.43 added a entry to the Petrol engines section claiming that there is such a thing as a 550i eqiped with a V12 engine, the only referance I can find to a so called "550i" is from those who have swaped them, I can find no source clameing that BMW ever sold a E34 with a V12.
If anyone can find a source I would love to see it, if not I will be deleting it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.186.52 (talk) 06:08, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  550i? 

message: It is not Wikipedia standard for the automotive infobox, to not be allowed to include months+years and instead, in a separate section. Over 80% of Automotive articles with production sections included have months within them, but not the full date included as stated by . Three users having a discussion among themselves, does not exactly dictate how article inboxes are configured across Wikipedia, since it is not even listed here . A much deeper discussion, with a widespread panel of users and not just a few out of many, would be a more proper form of consensus being firmly established.A dispute resolution might end up needing to be opened, on the premise this is not even the standard across this site anyway and is being pushed. Carmaker1 (talk) 06:17, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion is at Talk:BMW 5 Series (G30)#Production in Infobox.  Stepho  talk  08:56, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox