E34 M5 on 5th Gear now

[filski666]

hmm, according to that nob on 5th Gear an E34 M5 has a 3.5litre engine - not the more common 3.6 or 3.8 litre

nice to see more examples of well informed journos!

Edited by filski666 on Monday 18th August 20:36

[ewenm]

But they have just played the joker card - MX5!

[rfn]

filski666 said:

hmm, according to that nob on 5th Gear an E34 has a 3.5litre engine - not the more common 3.6 or 3.8 litre

I did wonder....

[filski666]

ewenm said:

But they have just played the joker card - MX5!

has that got a 3.5litre engine too??

[ewenm]

filski666 said:

ewenm said:

But they have just played the joker card - MX5!

has that got a 3.5litre engine too??

Bigger than that isn't it, only just slower than a 335d...

[AngryS3Owner]

They also got the buying guide totally wrong, didn't feel like mentioning rust or the small issue of the fking expensive nurbergring suspension!

[filski666]

AngryS3Owner said:

They also got the buying guide totally wrong, didn't feel like mentioning rust or the small issue of the fking expensive nurbergring suspension!

that's because they were obviously reviewing the very rare 3.5litre version which has an all aluminium body and bilstein non-EDC suspension as standard

probably got a couple of turbos as well

and I think it is (mapped)

[Neil_H]

I just heard the word 'wicked' used to describe a GT2.

[AngryS3Owner]

Neil_H said:

I just heard the word 'wicked' used to describe a GT2.

Any more bullst about that, maybe they should have said the 996 GT2 was the last proper scary car that Porsche produced with no toys!

[sniff petrol]

Didn't the SL's have the hard top as standard?

[John D.]

How good did that Merc sound though?

[EDLT]

This accident WON'T be shocking at all.

[MrKipling43]

How good was the whole programme?!

They've done a great job this series - really upped their game.

[tomTVR]

MrKipling43 said:

How good was the whole programme?!

They've done a great job this series - really upped their game.

I agree. Quite a lot crammed into one episode.

RX8 v8 350Z - good
GT2 - good
SL63 - good
Cars for beer money - good

Not interested in Lewis Hamilton though and i knew exactly what was going to happen in the crash.

[soxboy]

On the beer money cars fair play to them for saying 'here are the cars, aren't they good' and leaving it at that, rather than the TG method of saying 'look what I got for £xxxx, let's now wreck it by painting it a stupid colour/ breaking things off it/ filling it with water/ dropping it off a crane'.

[hcanning]

My MX5 looks just like that one


I'm never getting in a 306 Cabriolet.. Ever..

[Schermerhorn]

filski666 said:

hmm, according to that nob on 5th Gear an E34 M5 has a 3.5litre engine - not the more common 3.6 or 3.8 litre

nice to see more examples of well informed journos!

Edited by filski666 on Monday 18th August 20:36

Sensitive little bugger aren't you? It's a TV programme, it's not Gospel.

[thinfourth2]

hcanning said:

My MX5 looks just like that one


I'm never getting in a 306 Cabriolet.. Ever..

Am i the only one that thought the 306 looked better after the crash?

[AngryS3Owner]

Schermerhorn said:

Sensitive little bugger aren't you? It's a TV programme, it's not Gospel.

But they were almost trying to be a buying guide, so it'd be nice if they actually checking their bloody facts first.

[FourWheelDrift]

Johnny was also wrong about the M5 being made famous by it's appearance in Ronin. The M5 wasn't in Ronin, there was a 535i driven at the end but no other.