Traditionally, a sedan or hatchback are the way to go when you choose for a luxury vehicle to move you and your family or friends around. Choosing an estate or wagon is not the most logical luxury choice for many customers. Still, when you need more space a wagon is the best way to go, and with the basic setup of a BMW 530d we think you cannot go wrong either.

So what is the deal here. Our latest road test is a 5-Series Touring, the 530d F11 to be precise. A combination of space, versatility and a torquetastic yet thrifty 3.0 liter turbodiesel. On top of the stock package comes the ACS5 Sport program by AC Schnitzer. The Germans have fitted a wide range of options from a performance enhancement up to interior parts and from newly fitted alloys to aerodynamic parts.

Even though the combination of a touring body and a diesel engine wouldn’t be our first choice, we took the AC Schnitzer ACS5 Sport 3.0d for a trip around the town of Aachen, the hometown of the German tuner. The Alpine White 530d we tried was equipped with every possible electronic gimmick, a stiffer suspension kit by AC Schnitzer and the stock Variable Damper Control, or possibly Adaptive Drive, in either case incorporating the Drive Dynamic Control chassis configurator that has four ride quality settings to choose from: Comfort, Normal, Sport and Sport+. The settings offered us a great way of adapting our setup while cruising through the city finding a place to shoot our photos.

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