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I carried out a running in service on one today & have to say, what a car!!! On a german plate, this car in germany is not on sale until feb 2012 so was the only one out on the roads over there. An epic motor! Unfortunetly i couldn't roadtest it as the customer was waiting. Bloke goes last night he went onto the A5 and foot to floor.. A little while later glanced down and was doing 167mph! By the way, the engine & 2 turbos comes in at 23grand not incl VAT!!!!!!!

We had our first one in thursday last week, its in our show room now under a cover awaiting an unveiling.

Gimmy 5 to up load.

They sound it makes is awesome!

Oh nice!!!

A blip of the throttle and the exhaust pop is amazing! By far the best sounding M production car?

IMO yesss!!! Lol

Your workshop is exactly the same as our old one, i like the bmw thing about how they look the same

Our workshop.



The F10 M5 sounds like an E39 with Hayward and Scott rear boxes but even better!

Oh nice!!!

A blip of the throttle and the exhaust pop is amazing! By far the best sounding M production car?

IMO yesss!!! Lol

Your workshop is exactly the same as our old one, i like the bmw thing about how they look the same

Is it on sale in Germany already?

Ajsingh wrote:

looks awesome !!

i wonder how long it'll be before the engine is cheap enough for me to swap into something else?

glenn wrote: i wonder how long it'll be before the engine is cheap enough for me to swap into something else?

Barry your workshop is identical to our old one, just ours was a little smaller.

My new fav M car is the F10 M5!

The engine is also in the X5/X6M, so iv been told
And in an x5 its amazing!

Manual

http://f10.5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=625053

The new f10 m5 is right up my street. 0-60 in 4 seconds, and the ton in less than 9 seconds. Fantastic performance.

Not sure about the wheels?

Those are the optional 20's. The standard 19's look different.

I saw a very dirty white one today at the dealer. Looks just right. 295/30/20 tyres at the rear .

Blitz wrote:I saw a very dirty white one today at the dealer. Looks just right. 295/30/20 tyres at the rear .

all the number on that car are pretty shocking... Price, engine size, power etc

Ajsingh wrote:I carried out a running in service on one today & have to say, what a car!!! On a german plate, this car in germany is not on sale until feb 2012 so was the only one out on the roads over there. An epic motor! Unfortunetly i couldn't roadtest it as the customer was waiting. Bloke goes last night he went onto the A5 and foot to floor.. A little while later glanced down and was doing 167mph! By the way, the engine & 2 turbos comes in at 23grand not incl VAT!!!!!!!

If I win the lottery (quite a slim chance as I don't play it) then I'll be buying one in brown.

What are the cables for? It makes it look quite complicated!

Those wheels really date it, they're near identical to the old m6 ones. Odd choice optional or not.

Cables to the engine is a battery charger and the yellow wire is for diagnostics

bss325i wrote:

Amazing barge but...

M badge on the calliper - that's so NAFF

toby wrote:

bss325i wrote:

Amazing barge but...

M badge on the calliper - that's so NAFF

They are huge discs.The rear ones are mammoth as well.

I prefer these wheels

I'd have thought they'd have a flatter floor nowadays... Ferraris and other exotica are almost flat now.

i suppose it needs to be flatter underneath because 200mph isn't fast enough is it?!

Ferraris is hardly the same as this!

it all looks pretty neatly tucked away to be honest.

i agree with the above too, that badged calliper looks like a right pikey ebay special, you'd have thought they could have had some nice cast or machined in ones at least

i see one in South Mimms services on the m25/a1 the other day 61 plate, ill agree with the sound its awesome and those brakes are flapping huuuuuuge

but my only critisim so far is that aside from the wheels and brakes it doesnt look much different to a standard 5 series too....... 'soft' looking

thats the whole point of an M5 wolf in sheeps clothing. You want more bling by a B5

it's how m5s have always been

I would love to see what Alpina can do to improve on that!

Alpina have a twin turbo V8 F10 five series called the B5 Bi Turbo and i was out before the M5.

Simon13 wrote:i suppose it needs to be flatter underneath because 200mph isn't fast enough is it?!

Ferraris is hardly the same as this!

It's more to do with reducing lift (or maybe even producing down force) than top speed

Most new BMW's are fairly flat underneath with plenty of plastic under paneling up to the rear axle then from there back there isn't really any of that.

Someone kindly tried to write ours off the other week its now in the bodyshop being corrected.

Great car some of the sales men said its abit tail happy though

Has anyone driven one of these yet? I have a test drive booked for the weekend so will report back