Just got this...fascinating reading....They pit a ferrari F430 against an M5........the M5 canes the italian stallion(pony).......obviously, there is more to it than performance but these are reputable journalists and they were totally blown away by how good the M5 was.

Get out and buy your copy now!!

here is the cover

 

Doc D,

Putting Autocar and reputable journalists in the same sentence is an oxymoron.

 

Agree, I thought it was written by James Ruppert but infact it is written by that twat Steve Sutcliffe.....I take it back but it is still a good read!

DD (should check his facts )

 

Hey Doc,

Don't feel too bad. If you want to have some real fun though try posting this thread on Ferrarichat or some similar website to see what a real flaming feels like! Those guys get very possesive of their prancing horses!

Autocar is now a sad and pathetic shadow of what was once a really informative magazine. The road testers on it these days are only a couple of rungs up the ladder from Max Power readers. On what grounds would a prospective purchaser ever consider an M5 against an F430? They might as well put the Mitsibushi EVO10 FQ2blah blah whatever against the M5 whilst they're at it. An equally absurd comparsion considering the target buying audience.

 

But it is nice to read re-assuring lines on just why you are spending so much on an expensive and rapidly depreciating lump of metal

I subscribe to CAR but only buy autocar if I spot a relevent article, I did subscribe to evo in the past but they are now just a subaruishifqblahblah mag.

Max Power.......dont swear at me !!

no offence intended or taken

DD.....still waiting for his Ferrari-Eater

 

I was offered an M5 today which was a cancelled order. Whilst deliberating I was beaten to it by none other than Johnny Wilkinson apparently. Ah well, he can better afford the depreciation than I can

 

Who's Johnny Wikinson.....is he that rugby guy????.....I'm more of the Hastings sisters vintage!!

This however proves my point that the "official" waiting time for an M5 is a bit of a misnomer.

If I could fit a wife and 3 little diesels into a 997, it would be a no-brainer but I cannot and therefore need a lardy saloon......just that the M5 is somewhat less lardy than anything else and I wouldn't have an E55 for all the tea in china!

DD

 

You're obviously not English then..

 

Are you sure?

 

Can't get it here in the US. Maybe you can scan the article and post it for the rest of us.