New BMWs for sale

BMW’s energy-saving Efficient Dynamics technology really works, offsetting relatively high purchase prices with low running costs. Even the big X5 SUV (recently enhanced with the option of a third row of seats) is a relatively guiltless purchase. Less environmentally sound, but undeniably thrilling, is the 414bhp V8-powered M3 at £50k. At humbler levels the new BMW 3 Series remains the best-driving compact exec. You’ve also got the handsome X4 and 6 Series, both available in Roadster and Coupé versions, the X3 SUV, the styled-to-shock X6 SUV coupé and the high-tech (but also high-depreciating) 7 Series. Sharp new BMW picks would include any model powered by the remarkably civilised and economical 2.0-litre diesel, such as the 120d (also now in an excellent cloth-topped BMW Convertible at just under £25k) or the superb 320d ES. If you’re unconcerned about bootlid badge snobbery, even the executive-sized 520d SE supplies strong, flexible performance alongside scarcely believable 55mpg average fuel economy and CO2 emissions of just 136g/km.