Vehicle equipment

All standard, country-specific and optional equipment that is offered in the model series is described in this chapter. Therefore, equipment is also described that is not available in a vehicle, e. g., because of the selected optional equipment or country variant. This also applies for safety-related functions and systems.

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    Brake Energy Regeneration: an energy-saving innovation.
    The new BMW 5-Series sedan continues the roll-out of BMW's Brake Energy Regeneration system on US models. To save energy and reduce the vehicle's fuel consumption over time, this system manages th ...

    General information
    Instructions for voice activation system. To have the available spoken instructions read out loud: ›Voice commands‹ ...

    Displays in the instrument cluster
    Displays in the instrument cluster The gear position is displayed and the engaged gear, such as M4, is displayed in manual mode. ...