{"id":4943,"date":"2021-01-10T00:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:44:33","slug":"spy-shots-munich-goes-after-another-niche-bmw-v5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"Spy Shots: Munich goes after another niche &#8211; BMW V5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/x6\/\">BMW X6<\/a> introduction at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/frankfurt-auto-show\/\">Frankfurt Motor Show<\/a> last week comes word of a yet another variation from Munich. The V5 is not a new engine configuration, it&#x27;s a new body style for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/\">BMW<\/a>. Looking like a pretty standard five door hatchback, the rear roofline is higher than the more coupe-like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/x6\/\">X6<\/a>, allowing for more headroom. <br \/>\n The V5 is thought to be built on the same platform as both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/x5\/\">X5<\/a> and X6, which means that it will probably by built alongside the X models in South Carolina. <em>CAR <\/em>is reporting that the new machine is targeted at the US market, which would be an odd choice by BMW. Unlike Europe, Americans have never really taken to hatchback styles &#8212; especially in premium segments.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: CAR]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/09\/16\/spy-shots-munich-goes-after-another-niche-bmw-v5\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-09-16T12:26:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the BMW X6 introduction at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week comes word of a yet another variation from Munich. The V5 is not a new engine configuration, it&#x27;s a new body style for BMW. Looking like a pretty standard five door\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}