Daily Drive-Thru: two thousand seventeen BMW five Series earns Top Safety Pick+, BMW taunts all-new M5, our two thousand eighteen Audi SQ5 very first drive and more

We’re keeping it brief and sweet in today’s edition of the Daily Drive-Thru, witnessing as it was a bit of slow day for automotive news.

Perhaps we were also feeling a bit of a content hangover as we finished cranking out our series of sixteen recommend vehicle recaps.

For a little more excitement, tune into our social channels via the day tomorrow and Brian León and I test drive a bunch of the latest vehicles the auto industry has to suggest. Be on the look out for Facebook Live movies and Instagram photos galore.

In the meantime, here’s our Wednesday round-up for you to chew on.

BMW five Series earns Top Safety Pick+

BMW’s five Series sedan has earned a Top Safety Pick from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety for the very first time since 2013.

BMW has redesigned its five Series for the two thousand seventeen model year, making it more powerful, more driver-friendly and even more fuel-efficient by adding a plug-in hybrid powertrain. It also made its executive sedan safer, restructuring the driver cabin to help it better absorb the influence of frontal crashes.

This switch plus a suit of crash-preventing driver assistance technologies helped the two thousand seventeen BMW five Series earn a Top Safety Pick+ designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a very first for the nameplate.

BMW releases more info about fresh M5

BMW has released the very first semi-official photos of the all-new M5.

In other five Series news, BMW has released some more information about and a handful of photos of its forthcoming sixth-generation M5. The photos aren’t fairly production-ready, with a body-hiding wrap over much of the sports sedan’s exterior, but rest assured, the mechanic specs are legit.

With a Four.4-liter V8 engine with M TwinPower turbochargers and an eight-speed M Steptronic transmission, the all-new M5 promises to be the most powerful to date.

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Very first Drive: two thousand eighteen Audi SQ5

In the Audi tradition, exterior switches to the two thousand eighteen SQ5 are subtle. The main hints include aluminum optic mirror covers, unique wheel designs, and available crimson brake calipers.

Slew of vehicles in today’s automobile market attempt to pair high-performance driving with high-capacity interior space, but few can do it fairly as well as the two thousand eighteen Audi SQ5.

The sport-tuned version of Audi’s popular crossover, the SQ5 features a turbocharged Trio.0-liter V6 engine producing three hundred fifty four horsepower inbetween Five,400 rpm and 6,400 rpm, and three hundred sixty nine lb.-ft. of torque inbetween 1,370 rpm and Four,500, which, as Christian Wardlaw points out, means its either at max torque or max horsepower across the majority of its rev range.

Christian took the SQ5 for a quick spin on Vancouver Island to get a taste of what this best-of-both-worlds SUV has to suggest.

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GMC’s Yukon SUV gets updated for 2017

With fresh features, such as standard leather front seats and GM’s Teenage Driver technology package, as well as a fresh paint option, the two thousand seventeen GMC Yukon packs big-time value into a big-time package.

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