RE: New M5 Gets Show Debut In Shanghai

[Zod]

Trommel said:

I'd like it more if it didn't look like Hamann had already started on it.

We've got people complaining it looks boring and that it looks blinged up now!

[HoHoHo]

Yawn.....

Looks like a 525D with bling wheel to me unfortunately.

[Justices]

Looks ok in the flesh but not as good as the last two. A little extra drama at the motorshow today to stave off the boredom. Two of the models working at the show got into a pretty serious altercation over... a chair. One of them is in pretty bad shape apparently. Women today eh?

[mondayo]

PhantomPH said:

I think it's an 'experience' thing, mate. Although I can't imagine it's the same in an M5, I have sat in car with big V8's before and the 'blub blub blub' on tickover makes the little boy in me wee his pants.

I dare say this is not the same in the new M5 tho, where the driver is insulated from the sound and feeling of the engine much more.

Let me put it this way - if I drew up beside a TVR or a Cobra at the lights, I would wind the window down to hear the engine as it bubbled away on tickover before the driver accelerated. If I did that and all I heard was silence from the sports car and a diesel rattle from the transit behind it, I would cry a little inside.

doesn't this sum us (petrolheads) all up?

[Zod]

mondayo said:

PhantomPH said:

I think it's an 'experience' thing, mate. Although I can't imagine it's the same in an M5, I have sat in car with big V8's before and the 'blub blub blub' on tickover makes the little boy in me wee his pants.

I dare say this is not the same in the new M5 tho, where the driver is insulated from the sound and feeling of the engine much more.

Let me put it this way - if I drew up beside a TVR or a Cobra at the lights, I would wind the window down to hear the engine as it bubbled away on tickover before the driver accelerated. If I did that and all I heard was silence from the sports car and a diesel rattle from the transit behind it, I would cry a little inside.

doesn't this sum us (petrolheads) all up?

Well, PhantomPH has clearly never heard an M5, so his petrolhead credentials are not as good as he thinks.