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BMW M550i xDrive review

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Writer:

Dan Prosser | Ti co-founder

Date:

12 April 2021

Did you see the photographs of the BMW iX on our feed this week? The answer to that is no, because we didn’t post any. Sharing images of a car so hideous would violate the Ti code of conduction. So rather than write about an electric SUV in which I have almost no interest whatsoever, I thought I’d write instead about a BMW that I like very much. The 5 Series has recently been facelifted and the 523bhp M550i xDrive is now available in the UK.

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