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Cool 12 66.67%
Uncool 6 33.33%
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Old 25th November 2011, 07:22 PM
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Default BMW M5 (E39) - 5 Litre V8

Well here's a crap pic of the M5. It's just frankly awesome and love it.

Standard 400bhp

This one has full Supersprint headers, Eisenmann centre and backboxes and remapped running a healthy 438bhp with 150,000 miles on.

I think it's cool. One of the first truly understated saloons (After kal_ay's superbly sexy Lotus Carlton) that just is unreal in power.

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Old 25th November 2011, 09:23 PM
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The car I really wanted but had to avoid as I knew it would make my dream car, the RS6, feel inferior by comparison. I know it sounds strange but I wanted the RS 6 badly.

It's faster then a standard RS6 even though it is naturally aspirated, handles a million times better, the interior is in another league to the Audi and it has a proper gearbox. Awesome, awesome car.

I remember trying to race one in my S8, there was no point as it left me behind and I had my foot down hard.

The E39 M5 for me is up there with the D2 S8 as one of the best cars both marquees have ever made. One day...
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Old 26th November 2011, 02:14 AM
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My favourite colour for the E39 M5,cool
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Old 26th November 2011, 08:38 AM
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Awesome car, very balanced handling. I've owned an M-car, a 1990 E30 M3 Cabrio, and with just 200 bhp, it was awesome on the open road, as a track car, it would leave a D2 S8 floundering.
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Old 26th November 2011, 01:14 PM
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I think the M5 just about qualifies for cool, especially if de-badged, whereas the 3 doesn't even get close (maybe 'cos I don't fit in a 3)

A proper 'sleeper' though
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I think the M5 just about qualifies for cool, especially if de-badged, whereas the 3 doesn't even get close (maybe 'cos I don't fit in a 3)

A proper 'sleeper' though
I have an E46 M3 as well... Just in many bits...
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Old 26th November 2011, 08:28 PM
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E30 M3 FTW, might soften for E36 as well
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Never had one but i've gone with cool on this one and and thats just tipped the balance
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Old 13th December 2011, 07:26 PM
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Still got this and the B5 RS 4 on my 'to do list' like Clarkson and Top Gear say 'there has never been a bad M5'. I still think the RS 6 Avant is cooler, even if the E39 is probably the better all rounder.
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