New M5
12-18-2009, 02:51 PM
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Of all the car magazines covering the European industry I've always found CAR the most informed and correct with their reporting. All good news from everything I could read in that blow-up.
12-18-2009, 04:53 PM
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WHOOAA!! So they have all the specs of the engine already?? I didn't see anywhere in that article that says the pic is a rendering either. Did I miss that or is that supposed to be the actual pic??
12-20-2009, 10:24 PM
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Ugh, I gotta eat humble pie for the shit-talking I did about the the F10. 
http://www.bmwblog.com/2009/12/21/bmws-brave-new-world/
http://www.bmwblog.com/2009/12/21/bmws-brave-new-world/
12-20-2009, 11:37 PM
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It is probably going to be a whole new level of fun driving the new M5 in a way so that the super capacitors in the KERS system give the most boost at just the moments when you need the extra power - like exiting out of turns and such. Looks like this M5 will be more about what's under the skin, than the skin itself.
Maybe soon we'll see M5 coming back to an inline six again too
Maybe soon we'll see M5 coming back to an inline six again too
12-22-2009, 04:04 AM
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Originally Posted by tachyon' post='1076110' date='Dec 18 2009, 04:41 PM
Looks excellent ... love the carbon fiber roof.
But they say that it will be lighter than the E60? I doubt that as the standard F10 has porked up 200 pounds from the E60.
But they say that it will be lighter than the E60? I doubt that as the standard F10 has porked up 200 pounds from the E60.
12-22-2009, 12:18 PM
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My Ride: 2006 BMW 550i "Ben Hogan's 5 Iron"
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Originally Posted by E60714' post='1077461' date='Dec 21 2009, 02:24 AM
Ugh, I gotta eat humble pie for the shit-talking I did about the the F10.
http://www.bmwblog.com/2009/12/21/bmws-brave-new-world/
http://www.bmwblog.com/2009/12/21/bmws-brave-new-world/
+1 Its only my 2367th mistake.
