Back in 2012, I had an
opportunity to drive the mighty BMW M5. With its 560-horsepower twin-turbo V8,
the M5 was one of the fastest production four-door sedans in the world at that
time. Here is what I wrote about the car.
The M5 is one of my childhood heroes, a car I grew up fantasizing about. Unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1984, the first BMW M5 hand-built, using a BMW 535i chassis and a modified version of the BMW M1’s 3.5-litre six-cylinder engine. The car weighed about 1,550 kilos and with 285 horsepower, it was the fastest four-door saloon of its time. With just 2,191 units produced, the first M5 is one of the rarest production BMWs ever and, of course, never came to India.
The M5 is one of my childhood heroes, a car I grew up fantasizing about. Unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1984, the first BMW M5 hand-built, using a BMW 535i chassis and a modified version of the BMW M1’s 3.5-litre six-cylinder engine. The car weighed about 1,550 kilos and with 285 horsepower, it was the fastest four-door saloon of its time. With just 2,191 units produced, the first M5 is one of the rarest production BMWs ever and, of course, never came to India.