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Chris Harris says the 2012 Nissan GT-R is one of the most interesting cars in the world to behave badly in. Why? Because the car's amazingly byzantine all-wheel drivetrain fights against aggressively reckless inputs. But what if you add a dour British rain? Instant four-wheel dorifto. More »
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Prepare yourself for another roaring episode of E39 M5 hoonage. Today's festival of skids is set in a suburban parking lot, where everything is quiet and placid until this BMW shows up. More »
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BMW's M cars are not fair-weather toys. They may be more powerful and more stiffly sprung than their mainstream sisters, but they also function as regular transportation. They carry mothers-in-law. They slog through traffic jams. And sometimes they get left out in the cold. More »
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When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life hands you rain on your track day, do as these Scandinavian enthusiasts did and make it a drift day. More »
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Taking a break from painting sexy portraits of cows, Swiss illustrator Gavin Patterson took a lap around Circuit de l'Anneau Du Rhin in Alsace with a BMW factory driver. On the way, he had to draw a Christmas card. Spoiler: He did not poke himself in the eye with a pen. More »
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When we drove the 2012 M5 on a frozen lake we felt the Bavarian stormer was great but a little disappointing in its engine sounds. BMW's fix: a new piece of technology that pumps synthetic engine noise into the cabin. Is it better to know someone's faking in advance? More »
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Youtube is flooded with videos of people drifting Subaru Imprezas, but this isn't just any Impreza. Underneath this Subaru's hood sits a V10 from a BMW M5. Watching this video requires overcoming the mind blowing sound to visual discrepancy. More »
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BMW's shown us the new 2012 M5, and we've even already had some drive time on an icy Swedish lake, but now we can hear the new über-sedan in full twin-turbo wail. More »
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Speed is addictive, which may explain why the owner of this Lamborghini Murcielago decided to tussle with a BMW M5 as they both left the 2011 SuperGT race at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia this afternoon. As these exclusive before-and-after photos show, the Lambo loses. More »
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This is it. Months after we drove a pre-production model out on a Swedish lake, here now are official images and details on the new BMW M5. More »
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A little less than a year from going on sale, the new BMW M5 bahn-stormer was caught in the wilds of the California freeway system yesterday, wearing BMW's trademark camouflage wrap on just the tips of its go-fast aero bits. While we've already driven it, even we haven't seen it this naked. Until now. More »
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A BMW M5 with xDrive? Don your Internet fire suits and get to the forums in in 3-2-1... There's no production confirmation, but as Autocar reports, BMW officials have confirmed they're messing with the concept. Is the end of tail-out action near? More »
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When it was introduced at the Paris Auto Show in 1978 the BMW M1 was the first mid-engine vehicle BMW had ever built. 33 years later, the low production M1 is the only mid-engine vehicle the company has ever built. One of the rare M1s is currently listed on Ebay, but the entry price to malaise era Bavarian super car ownership is not for the faint of heart or the shallow of pockets. More »
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You've seen our first photos of the 2012 BMW M5 (aka BMW Concept M5) and read our first drive, so what's left? Official photos and the details of the concept gleaned from the press release. More »
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Well, it's the 2012 BMW M5 concept anyway (of a car we already drove!). BMW held a private unveil of the BMW M5 concept to a select few journalists in Munich, Germany this week and somehow these shots leaked out. More »
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If, say, BMW invites you to ride in a new BMW M5 on a Swedish lake, the cynic in you might expect one of those shambolic "passenger" rides where the hapless journalist attempts to glean something of use riding shotgun. More »
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The 2012 BMW M5 isn't supposed to arrive until the Shanghai Auto Show, but a Jalopnik reader caught a prototype just hanging at the mall. Yes, it will have a turbocharged V8 engine good for 550+ hp, but BMW clearly needed to test it in the places it will spend most of its time. More »
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When people think about the malaise era, great cars are not always the first things that come to mind. Although it wasn't the best automotive decade, some great cars were still produced. What is your favorite car from the 1980s? More »
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Going slideways in a matte black 2001 BMW M5. What more could you want on a Monday morning? [NNapierala via GearheadsandMonkeywrenches via jyx via 99op] More »
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When the F10-based 5 Series was revealed at the end of last year, all we could think about was the 2012 M5. Especially now that we've whet our whistle with this latest set of spy photos of the upcoming model. More »
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Mike Burroughs had an BMW closer to a parts bin than a drivable car. After four weeks of chopping and customizing, Rusty Slammington was born: A Supra-powered street rod that can fit under a semi trailer. More »
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An M5Board forum member took his 2007 BMW M5 to the dealer for brakes and fresh oil. Their 20-year-old tech crashed it during a test drive. The dealership's offering him $2500 in parts. The problem? There's $30,000 in damage. More »
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The 2011 BMW M5's twin-turbocharged 540-hp V8 is rumored to be mated only to a manumatic transmission and these exclusive spy images inside the cockpit do nothing to quiet those whispers. Does this mean the ultimate driving machine is dead? More »
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The parents of 19-year-old Canadian Vladimir Rigenco bought him a 2006 BMW M5 and, not surprisingly, bad things followed: 90 mph in a residential zone, bragging about it online, someone tipping off the cops, ticket, probation, no more driving. More »
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Heston Blumenthal, the mad scientist of contemporary British cuisine, cooks with liquid nitrogen and serves food with built-in iPods. He’s also got a thing for M5’s…health and safety be damned. More »
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Loaded with a twin-turbo V8 rumored to produce 578 HP, can you blame the test engineers for driving the 2012 BMW M5 out in public to be spotted by the keen eyes of spy photographers? Interior pic below. More »
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Last year, sales of BMW's midsize sedan hit 5.5 million. The outgoing 5er, known as the E60, represented the car's fifth generation. I have at least five personal stories to tell about the 5-series. Coincidence? I think not! More »
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Two turbos, eight cylinders, 578 HP, 530 lb-ft of torque, 0-to-60 in 4.4 seconds and 188 MPH top speed. That's what England's Car magazine says to expect from the 2012 BMW M5. We're just happy it's not another SUV. More »
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If you know the right people and have enough bank, you can waltz into your local BMW dealer and order a car painted in a matte silver called frozen grey metallic. Welcome to BMW Individual, Munich's custom-trim and personalization arm. More »
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The 2011 BMW M5 will likely drop its V10 in favor of a torquey 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 pumping out an expected 540 HP. Rumors aside, these spy photos clearly show a brawnier Bimmer with quad exhaust pipes. More »
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The E34 M5 is a Q-ship, with basically only badging, valances and wheels to separate it visually from its less-M siblings. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has found a clean '91 that's still running under the radar. More »
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In Bucharest, this billboard boasts of Hyundai Motor Service's attention to detail. They even have a weirdo white-gloved robotic-hand carefully dusting off the BMW E60 M5 V-10 engine pictured. Oops. (Hat tip to Shitty Mf, we're not kidding) [Mibz] More »
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The city of angels has suffered from earthquakes, fires, riots and mudslides. But when you can pick up a 470-bhp Dinan M5 there for under twenty grand, Nice Price or Crack Pipe says viva la ciudad de Los Angeles! More »
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Dropping the 500 HP S85 V10 from the E60 M5 into the engine bay of an E30 M3 requires building an essentially all-new chassis underneath the classic body. Here's how it's done. More »
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The obnoxious car precious metals-plating cold war between Russian mobsters and oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil sheiks has jumped to the next level. Chromed cars are now passé, with one Russian stepping up his game with a gold-plated BMW M5. Naturally, it also has a chrome racing stripe. More »
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What would you do if you were woke to the sounds of tire squealing and crunching of Bavarian metal? That's exactly what happened to one E39 M5 owner after a drifted-sideways-SUV demolished his garage-parked BMW. More »
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Now this is great automotive advertising from the boys at BMW Motorsport. If this doesn't get your heart racing, then we're not sure what the hell will. More »
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BMW's Motorsport division said it would never tune an SUV, yet they've gone back on their word on that one. Does that leave room for a big-daddy M7? Looks like a definite "maybe." More »
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With the arrival of the new BMW Z4 looming on the horizon, this previous-gen Z4 packs a little something extra to grab your attention.: the 5.0-liter V10 from the BMW M5. More »
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British car shoppers in the late 1990s, perhaps not predicting the all-encompassing speed-camera network that would one day render their island unsuitable for M5-grade fast driving, probably yearned for the new factory-hot-rod BMW after seeing this ad. But… don't jet cars go a couple hundred MPH faster than a piston machine? More »
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