The 2010 winner of the Most Highly Anticipated New Car accolade has been revealed to be the BMW-5 series.

Set to go on sale later this month, the German car manufacturer’s new saloon took first place in a poll from car leasing website Contract Hire and Leasing.

The cars in the poll were voted for by visitors to the website, both personal and business users, and of the 520 customers surveyed, 20 per cent voted for the 5-series model.

Overall sales of the 5-series range have already amounted to more than 5.5 million and perhaps the eagerly-anticipated new model will prove to be as successful.

Much of the interior design on the new model, which is available with either a petrol or diesel engine, is based upon those in the BMW 7-series luxury saloon.

The new 5-series model will be the first in its class to have Auto Stop/Start technology, which makes it more fuel and emission-efficient.

BMW’s 3-series model was recently voted as the Most Desirable car by used car website motor.co.uk.

In its Buyer’s Choice Awards, 3-series was found to be the most searched for car on the website.

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