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Stupid... just plain stupid. Making a car this good, shouldn't be allowed. 
I scared myself silly yesterday. Went for a late afternoon hoon on Hampshire's finest roads and ended up in bloody West Sussex!
Simply awesome!
I gave the 'M' button a proper workout, I can't believe how quick this car is. The poise, stability and sure footedness is staggering. At full crack (red-lining) the V10 sounds simply fantastic.
The closest thing I can relate the acceleration to , is hyper space in the Millennium Falcon. The trees were warping past me like stars being sucked into a black hole!
I'm sure I arrived 2 minutes before I left ?
All this and it has 4 seat practicality and usability. Without doubt the finest 'Complete' car I've ever owned.
All this afer coming from 2 Tvr's, 2 BMW's and 4 Aston Martin's, V8 and V12 !!!!
I scared myself silly yesterday. Went for a late afternoon hoon on Hampshire's finest roads and ended up in bloody West Sussex!
Simply awesome!
I gave the 'M' button a proper workout, I can't believe how quick this car is. The poise, stability and sure footedness is staggering. At full crack (red-lining) the V10 sounds simply fantastic.
The closest thing I can relate the acceleration to , is hyper space in the Millennium Falcon. The trees were warping past me like stars being sucked into a black hole!
I'm sure I arrived 2 minutes before I left ?
All this and it has 4 seat practicality and usability. Without doubt the finest 'Complete' car I've ever owned.
All this afer coming from 2 Tvr's, 2 BMW's and 4 Aston Martin's, V8 and V12 !!!!
I have an Aston V8 Vantage for four or five days next week while my M5 is in to have the rear bumper replaced (after a fat bloke in a Jag crashed into it). I take it from shady's description that the Aston may disappoint me. The way the M5 can accelerate from any speed is just hilarious and exciting.
Zod said:
I have an Aston V8 Vantage for four or five days next week while my M5 is in to have the rear bumper replaced (after a fat bloke in a Jag crashed into it). I take it from shady's description that the Aston may disappoint me. The way the M5 can accelerate from any speed is just hilarious and exciting.
No not at all, the V8 will still excite, especially if Fuse22 is removed 
Great poise and feel, a real drivers car. My only critism, and well documented in the media, is the V8 just doesn't have the 'urgency' it should have. It feels quick, but just isn't quite quick enough.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts after you drive
Shadytree said:
Zod said:
I have an Aston V8 Vantage for four or five days next week while my M5 is in to have the rear bumper replaced (after a fat bloke in a Jag crashed into it). I take it from shady's description that the Aston may disappoint me. The way the M5 can accelerate from any speed is just hilarious and exciting.
No not at all, the V8 will still excite, especially if Fuse22 is removed Great poise and feel, a real drivers car. My only critism, and well documented in the media, is the V8 just doesn't have the 'urgency' it should have. It feels quick, but just isn't quite quick enough.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts after you drive
, I lust after one but would never get the family finacial director approval for such a machine Zod said:
Shadytree said:
Zod said:
I have an Aston V8 Vantage for four or five days next week while my M5 is in to have the rear bumper replaced (after a fat bloke in a Jag crashed into it). I take it from shady's description that the Aston may disappoint me. The way the M5 can accelerate from any speed is just hilarious and exciting.
No not at all, the V8 will still excite, especially if Fuse22 is removed Great poise and feel, a real drivers car. My only critism, and well documented in the media, is the V8 just doesn't have the 'urgency' it should have. It feels quick, but just isn't quite quick enough.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts after you drive
Hence full bore noise from the off rather than just great than 4000 revs when the valve would open.
Fuse box is in the right hand side of the boot.
Took delivery of an 05 plate E60 M5 from my local BMW dealer last Friday. I decided that this time it would be an M car! No more messing around with other variants and wishing I'd gone "M".
If I ignore the intimate relationship I am developing with my local Sainsburys filling station for one moment, all I can say is exceptional! I can carry the family (wife + 3 kids) around in real comfort and - once on my own - chase the sun round the earth!
On the down side, the car developed a juddering from the rear when pulling out of an up-hill junction near my home (on the second day of ownership!). The dealer collected it yesterday and confirmed that a new clutch is required (22.5k miles). They have the part so I should get it back tonight. Aparently this is a known issue and the clutch will be replaced under warranty (a result!).
Any excuse is now a valid reason to take the car out...
If I ignore the intimate relationship I am developing with my local Sainsburys filling station for one moment, all I can say is exceptional! I can carry the family (wife + 3 kids) around in real comfort and - once on my own - chase the sun round the earth!
On the down side, the car developed a juddering from the rear when pulling out of an up-hill junction near my home (on the second day of ownership!). The dealer collected it yesterday and confirmed that a new clutch is required (22.5k miles). They have the part so I should get it back tonight. Aparently this is a known issue and the clutch will be replaced under warranty (a result!).
Any excuse is now a valid reason to take the car out...
Shadytree said:
Zod said:
Shadytree said:
Zod said:
I have an Aston V8 Vantage for four or five days next week while my M5 is in to have the rear bumper replaced (after a fat bloke in a Jag crashed into it). I take it from shady's description that the Aston may disappoint me. The way the M5 can accelerate from any speed is just hilarious and exciting.
No not at all, the V8 will still excite, especially if Fuse22 is removed Great poise and feel, a real drivers car. My only critism, and well documented in the media, is the V8 just doesn't have the 'urgency' it should have. It feels quick, but just isn't quite quick enough.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts after you drive
Hence full bore noise from the off rather than just great than 4000 revs when the valve would open.
Fuse box is in the right hand side of the boot.
Shadytree said:
derestrictor said:
Yes but does it have soul?
More Soul than a David Sole sitting in a Soul Food deli, eating grilled Dover Soul in Soulville upon Soul!I'm with you on this one Stu. I've been lucky enough to peddle an M5 and always put both rear windows down just to hear the V10. It's got logic7 but the engine is more tuneful than that could ever be. I can only imagine how extraordinary an M6 is! In my book both cars have soul by the bucket load.
Matt
I was thinking about these yesterday.
I doubt there is more of a complete car out there. It looks more butch and much less flash than the M6 and costs less. Has a terrific V10 engine and is RWD. In terms of a super saloon, there is nothing to match it and I even reckon an F430 would be hard pushed to get past one.
My only real question is, are the brakes as bad as everyone (the media) says?
I doubt there is more of a complete car out there. It looks more butch and much less flash than the M6 and costs less. Has a terrific V10 engine and is RWD. In terms of a super saloon, there is nothing to match it and I even reckon an F430 would be hard pushed to get past one.
My only real question is, are the brakes as bad as everyone (the media) says?
Combover said:
I was thinking about these yesterday.
I doubt there is more of a complete car out there. It looks more butch and much less flash than the M6 and costs less. Has a terrific V10 engine and is RWD. In terms of a super saloon, there is nothing to match it and I even reckon an F430 would be hard pushed to get past one.
My only real question is, are the brakes as bad as everyone (the media) says?
A Maser Quattroporte would be a cool choice,cooler car and nicer sounding.I doubt there is more of a complete car out there. It looks more butch and much less flash than the M6 and costs less. Has a terrific V10 engine and is RWD. In terms of a super saloon, there is nothing to match it and I even reckon an F430 would be hard pushed to get past one.
My only real question is, are the brakes as bad as everyone (the media) says?
M6 is the one to have though,sod the 4 doors much more desirable package.
The Brakes are very good,the media are spoiled by Porsche.
Boulder said:
Combover said:
I was thinking about these yesterday.
I doubt there is more of a complete car out there. It looks more butch and much less flash than the M6 and costs less. Has a terrific V10 engine and is RWD. In terms of a super saloon, there is nothing to match it and I even reckon an F430 would be hard pushed to get past one.
My only real question is, are the brakes as bad as everyone (the media) says?
A Maser Quattroporte would be a cool choice,cooler car and nicer sounding.I doubt there is more of a complete car out there. It looks more butch and much less flash than the M6 and costs less. Has a terrific V10 engine and is RWD. In terms of a super saloon, there is nothing to match it and I even reckon an F430 would be hard pushed to get past one.
My only real question is, are the brakes as bad as everyone (the media) says?
M6 is the one to have though,sod the 4 doors much more desirable package.
The Brakes are very good,the media are spoiled by Porsche.
The M6 is great, but the M5 is somehow cooler, doing the same thing in a four door saloon.
The brakes are fine 98% of the time on road. The otehr 2% of the time, they are terrible. It doesn't take too many hard braking events to have the pedal travel start to lengthen.
I've yet to drive one and I'm still out on the looks but try if you will to imagine what vehicle I was sat in exactly two weeks ago; air conditioning set just so, rear armchairs cosseting my back, going completely f
king flat out through Pflanzgarten. Sideways...
Surreal just isn't enough. It is a mind-bending car, the sort that leaves you slightly bewildered when you step out of it, a car that delivers a punch violent enough to make Mr Stallone proud, but yet at the same time soothes like your favourite blanket.
Epic.
king flat out through Pflanzgarten. Sideways...Surreal just isn't enough. It is a mind-bending car, the sort that leaves you slightly bewildered when you step out of it, a car that delivers a punch violent enough to make Mr Stallone proud, but yet at the same time soothes like your favourite blanket.
Epic.
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