Finally took some PICS of my 550i....
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Originally Posted by sdg1871' post='977925' date='Aug 16 2009, 12:18 AM
Well there is a pretty big peformance gap between 550 and M5.
I'm not suggesting they're equal, or even comparable. No question the M5 is faster and handles better.
But, the 550i is no slouch, and damn near the car the M5 is - no apologies neccessary here.
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Originally Posted by lawguy' post='1008055' date='Sep 15 2009, 06:36 AM
On the track, maybe. In the real world, its far less than "pretty big". I saw road test in the car mags that the 550i ran a 4.8 time in the 0-60. Depending on your source, that's .3 to .5 seconds slower, which is about the blink of an eye from 0-60.
I'm not suggesting they're equal, or even comparable. No question the M5 is faster and handles better.
But, the 550i is no slouch, and damn near the car the M5 is - no apologies neccessary here.
I'm not suggesting they're equal, or even comparable. No question the M5 is faster and handles better.
But, the 550i is no slouch, and damn near the car the M5 is - no apologies neccessary here.
But once the M5's V10 is revving and in the heart of its powerband and speeds rise about 30, the M5 passes my 550 like it was standing still and absolutely runs away from it. When the road is straight and unrestricted, a 550 is not even close to a M5 in terms of speed and acceleration.
There no doubt that the 550i with sport package is the next best thing to a M5 in an E60 and is very comparable to the M5 in terms of slow speed stoplight to stoplight driving. But there is no comparison at speed.
It is true that the fastest 0-60 time ever clocked for a 550 by a major car mag (4.8 seconds) is close to the slowest 0-60 M5 times records by car mags (about 4.5). But most mags pegged the 550 from 0-60 in the low five seconds and most mags pegged the M5 in the low four seconds. If the test is from 0 to 100 or 0 to 150, there is a massive difference between the two.
No the 550 is no slouch. It's a excellent performance sedan. But the M5 is in a totally different performance class IMHO.
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