1987 BMW (E28) M5

[sutts]

I've owned this for just under three years now, bought privately soon after the ad appeared on PH. It's a late 1987 M5, one of the very last of the 187 cars they made in RHD for the UK market. It's Cirrus Blue and has the factory-fitted body kit that about one third of them were ordered with (at considerable expense at the time). The kit always divides opinion, but I actually went out looking for one with it. I am a child of the 80's!

It's also fairly rare in that the owner opted for cloth rather than leather interior, but I'm glad he did as it has stood up very well to the test of time and 140,000 miles. A previous owner had the seat bolsters done in leather at some point but it looks good and suits the look of the interior.

I've done, or had done, a variety of things to maintain and improve it, including: timing chain, new radiator, seat rebuild (frame had cracked), some welding underneath followed by a good clean up and waxoyl, new front grilles, wheel refurb and new tyres, Inspection 2 service, OEM exhaust back box and a thorough going over of the electrics which now all work, including the trip computer.

If you're unfamilar with these cars it has a motorsport-derived 3.5 litre straight six engine, LSD, 5 speed box, air-con, heated and fully electric seats. They were (briefly) the fastest saloon car in production in 1985 with a top speed of around 152 mph. I can confirm that it's still more than capable of dealing with modern traffic, albeit steering and brakes require more concentration than a modern car!

Anyway, some pics. It's been to a few Sunday Services so some people may recognise it:




Not all the pictures were taken by me, so if you recognise any of your own then thank you very much!!

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[Amirhussain]

[iacabu]

Lovely.

I wouldn't have even realised it had a kit on it had you not mentioned. The interior looks very nice too. I like the pattern, it just gives it a little something extra rather than it being all black/grey/whatever leather.

[sutts]

Cheers, that's an interesting comment about the body kit. Here's a picture I came across showing M5's with and without the kit.

(I have no connection to ML, have never used them, but understand they are very good).

[outnumbered]

That's my CSL next to your car at Silverstone - I think we had a chat on the day. Really lovely car, I think the E21/E26/E28 still look fantastic these days. They're so sharp compared to the bloaty look of more modern Beemers (even mine!).

[g3org3y]

Lovely stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[Muzzer79]

Yup, that's a whole load of want right there

[sutts]

Thanks all.

Outnumbered, I remember your lovely CSL and our chat well! That was a good day out, thank you for the extra photos - I especially like the front grill shot showing the little arrow to indicate where the bonnet release catch is.

[mark.c]

That's really lovely,

[R6VED]

That is a thing of beauty - lucky you :-)

[E30M3SE]

[e21Mark]

Lovely. I owned one back in the early 90's and it's now listed under ''cars I should never have sold''.

1990 is about as modern as I ever really want to get with my BMW. They made such great cars back in the 70's & 80's.

[JakeT]

Gosh that looks absolutely amazing. Cloth seats really do look so much better than the leathers do by now also. The sound they make is pure porn also, and has an engine (i think) BMW does best. Straight sixes is where the sweet spot has always been.

[Kawasicki]

Lovely car.

[TheAngryDog]

What can I say that hasn't already been said? A lovely car, E28 M5's are a special car and I'd be happy to own one. Not the fastest thing but it has class that many cars that cannot match.

Nice.

[sprouting]

More pics needed.

[sutts]

Thanks all for the positive comments, I am genuinely surprised that no-one has come on to say they don't like the factory body kit! I'm glad I bought it when I did as prices are on the up and they will always be hard to find with only an estimated 60-80 ish left on the road.

Some recent pictures at a show in Uxbridge where we managed to get every model of M5 in a row, with an E12 M535i for good measure! Unfortunately the lens didn't extend wide enough to the F10 version...







And one at a wet PH South East meeting:

[LukeDM]

What a gorgeous car!

sutts said:

Unfortunately the lens didn't extend wide enough to the F10 version...

Shame