LOL, it did seem a little weird looking for a F10... but it was late and I was tired, so I didn't really think twice before posting it. Sorry!

Not at all ...

Shoulder line - although similarly shaped & incorporating door handles - runs completely differently: it's not so straights, also positioned a bit lower (it doesn't run above front wheel arch, but ends in it, and continues on the onther side - like on E39 5er).

Even more different is lower character line at the botom of the side doors: it's not straight & linear like on F01, but it curves up to the rear wheel arch - more in Audi style.

The side profile of F10 5er is more wedge-shaped than the profile of F01 7er.

Wait till the camo is removed in FEP phases ...

I´ll like it then, the bad thing is that we are not going to see FEP until late 2009, and until then, the only changes in the car mules we will see are maybe the final tail lights as with F01, but i wouldn´t expect nothing more.

Now after seeing the 7er in official pics and looking at these spy shots of the new 5er, it looks like the interior will be close to a carbon copy of the 7er.

Quite right....and I am happy with that. Very much so....
BTW, this area here is distictively different from the F01...more sporty imo, with that knick:



It also looks like the F10 will have a regular handbrake and not some electronic thing that's in the 7er

How do you come to that conclusion? I see the same electronic handbrake switch behind the gear stick...

That hole below the iDrive controller I don't know man, it could be that button too.

I don't know what it is but the handbrake is usually on the driver's side of the center console.

it's just part of the center console interior trim.

SCOTT, can we expect F10 interior to be class leader as 7er, and X5?.