Saw the new M5 this weekend
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for ONCE Car & Driver doesn't have a boner for the Beemer.....
So color us pissed that the M5 suffers shortfalls in three areas where an M usually excels: steering, suspension, and brakes. We noticed this while tackling fast bends on Bavarian back roads. The calipers supplied a cold, weak bite. There was too much up-and-down bobbing of the body, and the relatively slow, remote steering wasn’t always able to place the front tires exactly where we wanted them. To drive in haste, you must trust the machine, and the M5, capable as it is, keeps secrets.
Playing with the vaunted buttons didn’t produce the needed medicine. The gradations are subtle, even to high-fidelity hands and butts. Turn up the steering setting from “comfort” to “sport plus,” for example, and the wheel just feels a bit heavier. Do the same to the shock absorbers, and the nervous up-down is more clipped, but it doesn’t disappear. And don’t get us started on that chrome drip of a gear selector, which seems like it needs to be asked twice to do anything. Returning to the Audi’s old-fashioned PRNDL was a relief.
In some respects, the story of this car isn’t about what BMW got so wrong because, by itself, the M5 is a dazzling and beautiful vehicle. It’s about what others are getting so right. http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...-bmw-m5-page-2
Last edited by bagwell; Sep 5, 2012 at 05:14 AM.
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