The day after we post a review of a
£100K Audi RS6 Avant
comes news of ... a £100,995 special edition BMW M5. Both will be fast cars off the line; can the new BMW M5 Competition Edition's strictly limited availability prevent it depreciating equally quickly? We live, after all, in an age where early examples of the 560hp F10 M5 are available for
little over £25K
, while newly registered cars with generous option spends and a couple of hundred miles on the clock go for
£10K under the £73,985 list price
It's a simple black or white decision
There's a new M5 on the way of course - we've seen
the spy pics
already - and this farewell Competition Edition will be limited to just 200 examples worldwide. What makes it worth the premium then?
Well ... it has the 600hp power upgrade seen on the M5 30 Jahre Edition (itself a £113,365 car as driven for our review) and the Competition Package suspension, diff and other upgrades as standard. Like the 30 Jahre it's sub-four to 62mph, hitting the benchmark in 3.9 seconds, or half a second quicker than a standard M5.
To mark it out from those other special editions it gets a full M Performance carbon styling package and interior detailing, a choice of just two colours (Mineral White or Carbon Black), black wheels and a generous trawl through the options sheet up to and including Adaptive LED lights and Bang & Olufsen Advanced audio. The latter, perhaps, the better to hear the notorious speaker-generated engine noise...