Tuesday 11th September 2012
BMW E61 M5 Touring: Not Spotted
Chris Harris wonders where on earth the M5 wagons have gone.
All hail the emergence of a new PH sub-genre!
Or perhaps not, because this one is slightly irritating.
I have been looking at used E61 M5 Tourings for several years now. One day I might own one, then again I might not - but they have always served as a comfort blanket because they represent the most perfect window shopping fodder. A £75k dog-carrier smacked so hard with the depreciation stick it looked like the loss-curve could plunge it into negative equity. Of the few hundred brought into the UK there were always 20 in the PH classifieds to drool over and then shudder at the thought of the fuel bill.
Today there are two. A measly two.
So where are all the E61 M5 Tourings? Perhaps they've all been mashed into hedges, which is entirely plausible on worn rubber - maybe some have been pinched and exported. But the sad, unpalatable truth is that they have all been bought by canny lurkers who finally thought "Sod it, the fuel costs will be tragic, but for £20k I couldn't care less. It has a 500hp V10, and that's what matters."
Wish I'd done the same. So I'm not posting a link (Ed - err Chris, about that), because this is a not-spotted. Bugger.
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Gorbyrev
Original Poster
490 posts
24 months
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Think you might be right Chris. There is one at Straiton in Edinburgh and it seems to be a keeper - guy has had it a few years. Looks great in that blue too.
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jason61c
1,046 posts
44 months
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jason61c
1,046 posts
44 months
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Oddball RS
1,205 posts
88 months
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Chris Harris wonders where on earth the M5 wagons have gone?
Why?
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Gorbyrev
Original Poster
490 posts
24 months
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[:O] Change from £19,000 - that is a whole lot of car for the money!
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lukeschwartz
35 posts
36 months
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Plenty in Germany, 107 in mobile.de. Give it a go mr drift!
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tomoleeds
358 posts
56 months
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who can afford the fuel, £400 per month if you do low miles.
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LayZ
826 posts
112 months
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Not forgetting the crap range. On the face of it this is an ideal eurohoon wagon with dog and kids, unfortunately go at any kind of pace and you'll need to stop for fuel every two hours.
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Maldini35
715 posts
58 months
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I suspect that if you need to transport family/dogs/furniture in a hurry, many would prefer a less tail-happy, more sure-footed alternative e.g. RS6
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Aeroresh
1,041 posts
102 months
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Mine might be up for sale soon!
There is usually around 10 for sale at anyone time but for whatever reason they've all but vanished over the last month or so?!!
Noticed the prices of those left seem to have firmed up too and not noticably different from this time last year.
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em177
1,247 posts
34 months
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Gorbyrev said: Think you might be right Chris. There is one at Straiton in Edinburgh and it seems to be a keeper - guy has had it a few years. Looks great in that blue too. Is that the one that bombs round Edinburgh wearing 520d badges.... 
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liammedler
6 posts
10 months
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Was sat in traffic next to one on the Oxford ring road the other day. Sounded like it meant business just on tick-over
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Howrare
57 posts
76 months
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Big E 118
1,604 posts
39 months
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Howmanyleft shows 176 currently VED'd in the UK.
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Mike Gill
46 posts
41 months
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My life goal is be married to a beautiful woman and own an M5 Touring.
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Numeric
308 posts
21 months
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Howrare said: LPG? I don't know about LPG - someone I know has a very sick Disco that ran LPG and popped a valve which I understand is a common issue (though god knows the fuel cost saving I guess easily pays for some valve work!!)
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sagarich
368 posts
19 months
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em177 said: Gorbyrev said: Think you might be right Chris. There is one at Straiton in Edinburgh and it seems to be a keeper - guy has had it a few years. Looks great in that blue too. Is that the one that bombs round Edinburgh wearing 520d badges.... Ha! Very cool!
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dca
6 posts
93 months
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BelfastBoy
527 posts
30 months
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Bit of a weird topic, but on PH, anything is possible. As an alternative, Audi do lots of superfast estate cars and I'm sure there's plenty of them floating about in the small ads.
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pscl227
169 posts
18 months
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sagarich said: em177 said: Gorbyrev said: Think you might be right Chris. There is one at Straiton in Edinburgh and it seems to be a keeper - guy has had it a few years. Looks great in that blue too. Is that the one that bombs round Edinburgh wearing 520d badges.... Ha! Very cool! I've seen that one a few times as well, always makes me chuckle.
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