Top Gear road test of E60 M5
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Top Gear road test of E60 M5
"You see, hell is really going to have to raise its game to get me to start using it as a metaphor for what happens when you start making full use of the M5. Because I'm here to tell you that this is one of the most devastating cars I've ever driven."
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"On every objective scale, the new M5 obliterates. It takes what we previously considered supercars and belittles them, patronises them into insignificance with the kind of confidence born of constant measurement and, possibly, coloured graphs. It is obsessive in its superiority and complete in its authority. And yet there's something bugging me.
I don't want one.
The M5 is a masterpiece. Of engineering, of integration, of power. But there's still a nagging doubt in my mind that it has sacrificed its soul for such domination. There's no charm, no warming glow. There's no furtive grin when you realise that you have an engine that is slightly too powerful for your chassis, no element of delight when your suspension setup exceeds the output of your engine. The bar has simply been raised for all performance cars. It's a geeky response to criticism, this complete elimination of imperfection. It's the tick-the-box approach to making a car empirically better, rather than making it feel right. And that, ultimately, takes the joy out of what is currently the best performance saloon in the world. "
Interesting comment at the end...sounds like the M5 is another great German creation...very precise and mechanical..just lacks the emotional pull that the Italian cars have.
I don't want one.
The M5 is a masterpiece. Of engineering, of integration, of power. But there's still a nagging doubt in my mind that it has sacrificed its soul for such domination. There's no charm, no warming glow. There's no furtive grin when you realise that you have an engine that is slightly too powerful for your chassis, no element of delight when your suspension setup exceeds the output of your engine. The bar has simply been raised for all performance cars. It's a geeky response to criticism, this complete elimination of imperfection. It's the tick-the-box approach to making a car empirically better, rather than making it feel right. And that, ultimately, takes the joy out of what is currently the best performance saloon in the world. "
Interesting comment at the end...sounds like the M5 is another great German creation...very precise and mechanical..just lacks the emotional pull that the Italian cars have.
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Interesting comment at the end...sounds like the M5 is another great German creation...very precise and mechanical..just lacks the emotional pull that the Italian cars have.
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Originally posted by tetra7
"On every objective scale, the new M5 obliterates. It takes what we previously considered supercars and belittles them, patronises them into insignificance with the kind of confidence born of constant measurement and, possibly, coloured graphs. It is obsessive in its superiority and complete in its authority. And yet there's something bugging me.
I don't want one.
The M5 is a masterpiece. Of engineering, of integration, of power. But there's still a nagging doubt in my mind that it has sacrificed its soul for such domination. There's no charm, no warming glow. There's no furtive grin when you realise that you have an engine that is slightly too powerful for your chassis, no element of delight when your suspension setup exceeds the output of your engine. The bar has simply been raised for all performance cars. It's a geeky response to criticism, this complete elimination of imperfection. It's the tick-the-box approach to making a car empirically better, rather than making it feel right. And that, ultimately, takes the joy out of what is currently the best performance saloon in the world. "
Interesting comment at the end...sounds like the M5 is another great German creation...very precise and mechanical..just lacks the emotional pull that the Italian cars have.
"On every objective scale, the new M5 obliterates. It takes what we previously considered supercars and belittles them, patronises them into insignificance with the kind of confidence born of constant measurement and, possibly, coloured graphs. It is obsessive in its superiority and complete in its authority. And yet there's something bugging me.
I don't want one.
The M5 is a masterpiece. Of engineering, of integration, of power. But there's still a nagging doubt in my mind that it has sacrificed its soul for such domination. There's no charm, no warming glow. There's no furtive grin when you realise that you have an engine that is slightly too powerful for your chassis, no element of delight when your suspension setup exceeds the output of your engine. The bar has simply been raised for all performance cars. It's a geeky response to criticism, this complete elimination of imperfection. It's the tick-the-box approach to making a car empirically better, rather than making it feel right. And that, ultimately, takes the joy out of what is currently the best performance saloon in the world. "
Interesting comment at the end...sounds like the M5 is another great German creation...very precise and mechanical..just lacks the emotional pull that the Italian cars have.
I think it has more to do with the looks inside and out. It is very polorizing and more uhhh than wow...
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Originally posted by 1SICKLEX
Wow, a German car lacks soul and emotion
I think it has more to do with the looks inside and out. It is very polorizing and more uhhh than wow...
Wow, a German car lacks soul and emotion
I think it has more to do with the looks inside and out. It is very polorizing and more uhhh than wow...
M5 body style = rounded box w/ a BIG *** ENGINE
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Originally posted by tetra7
Well at least the body style of the Porsche makes me salivate...the M5 gets props for technical performance. But I dunno bout you, I just get this weird creepy feeling when I see some 40 year old guy drive up next to me in an M5. It just gives me a strange sensation of a National Lampoons vacation gone upscale.
M5 body style = rounded box w/ a BIG *** ENGINE
Well at least the body style of the Porsche makes me salivate...the M5 gets props for technical performance. But I dunno bout you, I just get this weird creepy feeling when I see some 40 year old guy drive up next to me in an M5. It just gives me a strange sensation of a National Lampoons vacation gone upscale.
M5 body style = rounded box w/ a BIG *** ENGINE
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I see a guy that can do everything the Porsche does with his family and a trunk full of stuff from the mall with cheaper insurance and a V-10 sound that only sex can replicate
I see a guy that can do everything the Porsche does with his family and a trunk full of stuff from the mall with cheaper insurance and a V-10 sound that only sex can replicate
Ewwww..you said the "F" word
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his player card got pulled! hehe!
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his player card got pulled! hehe!
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Ewwww..you said the "F" word
Ewwww..you said the "F" word
Ahh better
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Originally posted by 1SICKLEX
Fellaz, I meantI see a guy that can do everything the Porsche does with his freaks and a trunk full of toys from the playboy.com with cheaper insurance and a V-10 sound that only sex with those same freaks in the car can replicate
Ahh better
Fellaz, I meantI see a guy that can do everything the Porsche does with his freaks and a trunk full of toys from the playboy.com with cheaper insurance and a V-10 sound that only sex with those same freaks in the car can replicate
Ahh better
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