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Get out the beer steins and lederhosen: the Bavarians are celebrating! Yesterday the 5,000,000th BMW 5-Series rolled off the production line at its factory in Dingolfing (yes, Dingolfing) less than an hour’s blitz down the autobahn from Munich. The original E12 5-Series was launched in 1972 with a design penned by Marcello Gandini and was inspired by the BMW Garmisch 2002ti, which Bertone unveiled at the 1970 Geneva Auto Show. The top-of-the-line model then was the M535i, powered by a 3.5-liter six producing 218hp. Five generations later, the E60 M5 produces more than twice that from its 5-liter V10, while versions of the 5-Series are available in Touring wagon bodystyle, with diesel engines and with all-wheel-drive.

The five millionth car, pictured above, is an oil-burning 530d sedan in Carbon Black Metallic (though it looks very blue in the picture).

[Source: BMW via Carscoop]

With three and a half days of bidding to go, US$2,505,000 has already been bid for the domain name pizza.com on Sedo in what is already going to be one of 2008’s biggest sales. With three and a half days of bidding to go, US$2,505,000 has already been bid for the domain name pizza.com on Sedo in what is already going to be one of 2008’s biggest sales.

Most likely the selling price will go much higher with 63 bids and 22 bidders to date. While there has been no action for a couple of days, in one half hour period on Saturday the price jumped $205,000.

Another domain name attracting interest, with the same auction completion time as pizza.com, is autos.net. The current bid is $49,999, but the reserve has not yet been met.

To check out these auctions, go to http://www.sedo.com/ and check out the “Featured Auctions”.

Just four days after Apple announced that the beta version of the iPhone SDK would be available to developers, some 100,000 downloads have taken place. ‘Course, it’s not like we’re shocked by Cupertino’s latest horn tooting, but we’ve all ideas that number pales in comparison to the amount of requests for unlocks. Nevertheless, the real news from the Apple camp is that companies such as Namco and PopCap are apparently on board to bring titles such as Pac-man, Galaga, Bejeweled, Zuma and Peggle to the iPod touch / iPhone via App Store. Furthermore, Six Apart’s CEO admitted that it’s already developing a “native iPhone application for TypePad,” and the VP of THQ Wireless implied that we’d be seeing some of its wares surface here as well. As for release dates? Your guess is as good as ours.