RE: 2021 BMW M5 Competition | UK Review
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theboss said:
TyrannosauRoss Lex said:
I disagree about the comfort thing. I think the modern car is still a comfortable car, as also highlighted by the review written above. The whole point of the M5 is a compromise between super fast AND practical, so your whole idea of 2 cars is kind of missing the point of the M5. Many people who have a new M5 don't want to drive to/from work in some cheapy little car and have a sports car for the weekend. A lot of the time most people are spending time with their family at the weekend, or going out with the fmaily (maybe less so at the moment!) and you can't take your family out in your fun car, and it's nice to take them out in a nice car as well. The reality is that if they had, say, a 530d and another little sports car, they'd likely do 90% or more of the miles in the 530d and 10% in the little sports car, when the M5 would be used 100% of the time, and be nicer to use than the 530d for the 90% of those drives.
Exactly this. When I was using my F10 as a daily my business trips involved everything from 100+ miles of Welsh A/B roads to trips across the continent and back. If I had a fun car sat on the driveway for weekends I would have spent 99% of my time behind the wheel in something deliberately economical and mundane resenting the fact I couldn’t combine the two and have something that makes every drive more enjoyable. M5 ticked that box perfectly and I’d do the same again quite happily. Too big / too powerful are rubbish arguments.I very much look forward to seeing residuals of the LCI in 2 to 3 years time, where I think it would be a reasonable price for an exceptional all rounder.
mcerbm said:
theboss said:
TyrannosauRoss Lex said:
I disagree about the comfort thing. I think the modern car is still a comfortable car, as also highlighted by the review written above. The whole point of the M5 is a compromise between super fast AND practical, so your whole idea of 2 cars is kind of missing the point of the M5. Many people who have a new M5 don't want to drive to/from work in some cheapy little car and have a sports car for the weekend. A lot of the time most people are spending time with their family at the weekend, or going out with the fmaily (maybe less so at the moment!) and you can't take your family out in your fun car, and it's nice to take them out in a nice car as well. The reality is that if they had, say, a 530d and another little sports car, they'd likely do 90% or more of the miles in the 530d and 10% in the little sports car, when the M5 would be used 100% of the time, and be nicer to use than the 530d for the 90% of those drives.
Exactly this. When I was using my F10 as a daily my business trips involved everything from 100+ miles of Welsh A/B roads to trips across the continent and back. If I had a fun car sat on the driveway for weekends I would have spent 99% of my time behind the wheel in something deliberately economical and mundane resenting the fact I couldn’t combine the two and have something that makes every drive more enjoyable. M5 ticked that box perfectly and I’d do the same again quite happily. Too big / too powerful are rubbish arguments.I very much look forward to seeing residuals of the LCI in 2 to 3 years time, where I think it would be a reasonable price for an exceptional all rounder.
I used mine as a workhorse, had nothing significant go wrong with it and it's sat outside in semi-retirement at the bottom end of the depreciation curve at 5.5 years old. If I were inclined to replace with something similar it I'd have this LCI Comp in a heartbeat. I'm not interested in smaller, more-focussed 'fun' cars, supercars or anything much else. It's just a good all-round car for an acceptable sum of money, by which I mean £80k or so, not £118k.
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