M5 places third in Automobile Mag

[epj3]

And as you see................ I did NOT quote you

And since this is a public forum, I can reply to any post I wish to reply to. [kick] Chill the shit out dude.

 

[Abdoman]

Thats straight line, 0-60

 

[Pete K]

Nobody's brought up Audi's reliability problems. The RS4 may be fast but will it last? Hell of a nice car though.

Myself, I wish BMW didn't spend millions on SMG and iDrive. Useless as far as I'm concerned. Why not spend the money on developing the finest manual transmission the world has ever seen? Or a better quality stock radio instead of iDrive?

Realistically, what percentage of M5s will actually be driven even close to their limits? Most will never spend even a single day on a track. Shame...

 

[Wallie05]

But, the point is not whether or not I can read the manual and grasp all of the car's complexities. The point is that one shouldn't have to push an array of buttons and then go into Idrive's menu system to change settings in order to do something like get the car to accelerate its fastest. That's not the point of what a car like this should be. One can get into an RS4 and punch it and it will give you everything it's got. You don't have to navigate a menu system and push the right buttons on the console to "set up" the car so it'll give you everything it's got. I certainly do understand the technology gripes about the M5 and M6.

Nicely said. If some one drops 90K on a car, should they have to read a manual to figure out how to wrangle to most performance from it? It's not like its cool to say, oh, I just bought a BMW M5, and now I have to figure out how to work it, or at least maximize its potential. That sucks. You can a plop down 150K for a Continental GT, hop in and drive off and hit 60 in less than 5 sec., on your way to damn near 200 mph, no questions asked, same goes for a manual 911 or F430.

Now I don't know if the M5 deserves 3rd just for the gearbox and i-drive, but those are enough to put at least in 2nd in my book. Nobody doubts that it's one hell of track star, however. Even though I think the E63 looks a little stale already, the fact that you can so quickly take from driving-the-inlaws mode to hang-on-for-dear-life mode really says something. Out of the whole group, I think the Audi looks the best, inside and out. I think the 0-60 numbers are a little slow, but if and when Audi decides to do an RS6, watch out, is all I have to say.....

 

[RiDE]

The M5 is so much more car all around, it's just a dumb magazine making an arrogant comparison of a car they probably had for 2 hours and put 30 miles on.

LOL That's quite an assumption.

It's only a dumb magazine when it says something you don't want it to.

 

[epj3]

LOL That's quite an assumption.

It's only a dumb magazine when it says something you don't want it to.

I don't care what it says - other than the fact it disagree's with what everyone else has said. (Namely top gear/fifth gear on the top of that list)