M5 - New vs Old

[mattman]

Was lucky enough to get a corporate invite to the BMW stand at Goodwood last Thursday to see the unveiling of the new M5.

Unfortuantely for BMW, they parked it next to a spanking deep purple (Technoviolet?) M5 which I thought looked 100x better - I must be getting old!

Anyway a couple of pics for you to decide

[E30M3SE]

mattman said:

Unfortuantely for BMW, they parked it next to a spanking deep purple (Technoviolet?) M5 which I thought looked 100x better - I must be getting old!

Nothing to do with getting old, I agree with you totally.

Re the colour of the E28, I thought it was more Macau blue than technoviolet, but Macau was not a colour option on those IIRC, so maybe it has Individual paint............?

(ETA, Technoviolet was not a colour option on those either)

Edited by E30M3SE on Thursday 7th July 15:48

[okgo]

What day was that? Didn't know you needed an invite...

[mattman]

mine was for thursday - had an hour to look inside and out of the new M5 before the barriers went up and the general public were allowed on the stand.
Also had champagne breakfast which was nice!

[Chipper]

I think it looks totally boring for a £75000+ vehicle.

[oxskyline]

don`t like the look of the new one,from the pic ,sure it will be a great drive though.

[4rephill]

Chipper said:

I think it looks totally boring for a £75000+ vehicle.

Strangely, I find it a bit too much for an M5! (not just the price but the looks too).

The original deal with the E28 and E34 M5's was that they were proper "Q" cars, barely distinguishable from the "domestic, cooking", versions but capable of hanging on to the tail of the supercars of the day whilst carrying twice as many people. Your money back then was spent mainly on the bits you couldn't see and they were all hand built.

Nowadays M5's are a bit too obvious and lack the subtlety and stealth that the original M5 had. Today's M5's are all:

"LOOK AT ME!, LOOK AT ME!, I'M EXPENSIVE AND SPORTY!"



Back then they were all:

"You have no idea why you can't keep up, have you?".



I would love to see BMW return to the subtle, discreet and stealthy M5 and leave the shouty stuff to the M3. Perhaps they could offer two versions of the M5, the standard, production line version and a custom, hand built stealth version along the lines of the original version (they could call it the M5Q! [badges optional ] ).

[sparks_E39]

I was there, I'd rather have the new one out of those two, however I'd have an E39 M5 over either.

[richard300]

Regards the colour....

It's Macau Blue, It must be a very late E28 M5 and it would likely be refered to as 'Sonderlack' (Special Colour) Also available on some early E34 M5 3.6's, E30 M3/M3 Convertibles, 635csi Motorsport editions and my E30 Motorsport Edition convertible. Mine is refered to as Sonderlack and not Macau on the paint sticker, but is paint code 250 (Macaublau).

[anonymous-user]

E28 is infinitely cooler than the new one. Whatever happened to M cars being discreetly styled?

[aeropilot]

That E28 M5

The original, and still the best one.