M5 CSL - errr me want.!!

[Not Ideal]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

[NicoG]

Nice car, but the author, Greg Kable, should be ashamed of the spelling mistakes and the mis-quoted power figure of the standard car. My mum knows they're 507 out the box....

[dougc]

CSL?

1780kg?

[Great Pretender]

"No plans for production..."

My arse; I'll put money on there being 50 last hurrah specials with an appropriately large price tag.

[mmm-five]

Surely they'd savemore than 50kg by ditching the rear seats, steel roof and electric front seats. I could see them losing more like 150kg doing all that, plus they could strip some sound proofing out and remove the heavy amp for the stereo - all you need is air-con and some way to set the eleventy-million engine/gearbox/suspension settings.

And yes, I would love one - let's see how much I can strip from an e60 M5 in Forza 3...

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 28th October 14:59

[Great Pretender]

mmm-five said:

And yes, I would love one - let's see how much I can strip from an e60 M5 in Forza 3...

See you at the Ring

[CarbonM5]

CSL: C=coupe,mabe SSL would be better!

[Olf]

As once said by a famous chinese philosopher... A paint job does not a coupe make.

[Zod]

CarbonM5 said:

CSL: C=coupe,mabe SSL would be better!

SSabL (Saloon, Sport, a bit Lighter)

[Stedman]

Sod the performance, i want the paint job!

...and the car to go with it

[SoliD]

mmm-five said:

Surely they'd savemore than 50kg by ditching the rear seats, steel roof and electric front seats. I could see them losing more like 150kg doing all that, plus they could strip some sound proofing out and remove the heavy amp for the stereo - all you need is air-con and some way to set the eleventy-million engine/gearbox/suspension settings.

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 28th October 14:59

Exactly what I was thinking, how did they only strip 50kg by doing all that, surely it would be a fair bit more, the point of this negates the M5 as a super saloon though, would anyone buy one as a track only car?

[NicoG]

SoliD said:

mmm-five said:

Surely they'd savemore than 50kg by ditching the rear seats, steel roof and electric front seats. I could see them losing more like 150kg doing all that, plus they could strip some sound proofing out and remove the heavy amp for the stereo - all you need is air-con and some way to set the eleventy-million engine/gearbox/suspension settings.

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 28th October 14:59

Exactly what I was thinking, how did they only strip 50kg by doing all that, surely it would be a fair bit more, the point of this negates the M5 as a super saloon though, would anyone buy one as a track only car?

Possibly not - Think what you could create from an E46 M3 with 'that' budget !!

Perhaps money-no-object die-hard collectors would see the limited run quickly out the doors as Regensburg though....

[Neil.D]

Well its better than that HAMMANN POS.