Supercharged the E60 M5

[CraigRT]

Do want.
I just prefer the E39 body style myself

 

[manimal]

Do want.
I just prefer the E39 body style myself

ive flip flopped more on my fave M5 more than I can remember but love for all things e39 is enduring!

Seriously its the gold standard by which all chassis's should be judged. E39 driven today still feels solid and fresh with better than new interior styling in the premium materials and bulletproof reliability.


Still gonna get me an E60 M5 someday just because of the engine.

 

[Apex]

Posting from the premium customer lounge at the BMW Welt. They have 3 kinds of beer and unlimited champagne at 9 am. Dogs everywhere here and owners take good care of them, pretty cool.

Took delivery of black/black. Saw a frozen white, very cool looking, though not sure i could properly take care of something like that. The F10 M5 is a technological leap forward from the E60 M5, especially in the small things. Can't wait to get working on it.

Today, there is a huge group of M5 deliveries, 25 in all from the US i believe. Everyone was surprised at the big number of customers ordering the orange interior.

 

[manimal]

Posting from the premium customer lounge at the BMW Welt. They have 3 kinds of beer and unlimited champagne at 9 am. Dogs everywhere here and owners take good care of them, pretty cool.

Took delivery of black/black. Saw a frozen white, very cool looking, though not sure i could properly take care of something like that. The F10 M5 is a technological leap forward from the E60 M5, especially in the small things. Can't wait to get working on it.

Today, there is a huge group of M5 deliveries, 25 in all from the US i believe. Everyone was surprised at the big number of customers ordering the orange interior.

Nice!! What interior did the frozen car have? How unique did the frozen pain look up close and did it look different from say a wrap?

Enjoy !

 

[Apex]

Sorry, forgot what interior, though I got the owner's business card. Paint much cleaner than wrap for those satin colors. Much more depth, and imho, a nicer compromise between gloss and matte. I'm a bit surprised, but the frozen white looks better than the frozen grey.

 

[Koing]

How does the factory pick up work for you since you live in the states? You get to drive the car from the factory to the port? You then fly back and pick up few weeks later when it gets to the port in the states or it gets delivered to your house?

Koing

 

[GTaudiophile]

Koing: that's about right.

The first step in the process is walking up to your car on a rotating turntable within the view of hundreds of BMW Welt visitors.

We need PICS!

 

[GTaudiophile]

Interesting. Looking the BMW website, I did not know that the new M5 could be ordered with a manual transmission as a no-cost option.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Interesting. Looking the BMW website, I did not know that the new M5 could be ordered with a manual transmission as a no-cost option.

Everyone says the M5's DCG is incredible. Might be the first time I'd choose that over a manual.

 

[Apex]

Well get pictures posted when i get back, took a bunch of them. Great experience, definitely worth doing.

 

[Apex]

Working on the pictures. Here's just a taste though.

BMW says to keep it under 4500 RPM for the first 1200 miles, so we stopped at 170 mph. The car pulls HARD.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Impressive.

 

[vshah]

nice!

 

[Viper GTS]

Rumor has it these are under-rated fairly substantially:

http://www.bimmerboost.com/content....-horsepower-SAE-on-a-dynojet-compeltely-stock

Any plans to squeeze any more out of it?

Viper GTS

 

[manimal]

thats slicker than skeeters peter!

Would love to be a passenger!

 

[amish]

61 miles on ODO and 156 on speedo...awesome!

 

[Apex]

Got back from our trip to Munich and sadly got food poisoning. FML.



Besides that, loved the trip. Here are a few of the pictures we took.



View of BMW headquarters from the subway:

View from the Welt:

Another view from the Welt. The headquarters is on the left, the museum is to the right:

Another:

View of the bridge between the Welt and the headquarters:

Where the bridge meets the Welt:

Stitched panorama between Welt on the right and the headquarters & museum on the left:

View of the Welt from the bridge. Tower from the Olympic village on the left:

Stitched view of Welt from the bridge:

View of the Welt and bridge from the side of the museum:

 

[Apex]

Sign at the south entrance of the Welt:

North entrance of the Welt:

Olympic village viewed from the Welt:

Now for some interior pictures of the Welt.



Shot towards the North entrance:

Display there at the North entrance with M6, X6m, and M3:

Frozen Grey M3 at North entrance:

Next to the North display is the small RR section:

Towards the middle, will stairway up to the second level (which connects to bridge):

 

[Apex]

Over a bit further, showing restaurant:

Restaurant from opposite angle:

Display at the South entrance:

Shop in the center:

Elevator up to the Preferred Customers Lounge:

9AM and the lounge has 3 types of beer (all you can drink, of course), food, and cappuccino. Comfy chairs and couches, and fast/free internet (bizarrely difficult to find in Munich):

The Preferred Customer Lounge also has champagne in very nice Schott Zwiesel crystal flutes. Yes, flutes kinda suck compared to normal stemware, but I think they're going more for celebration than nosing:

 

[Apex]

The staircase down to the delivery area. On the upper left of the picture is the customer lounge, with the private customer balcony there in front:

A view from the private customer balcony. Lounge at right, stairs down to delivery area on left. Cars on turntables being delivered at bottom:

The delivery roundabout and elevator (cars lifted from center):

Friends car being delivered, with film crew:

 

[Apex]

Ours:

Had to take picture of ours next to the Polizei M5:

Shot from the back (showing the BMW motorcross section at the upper right):

A final look at the delivery corkscrew. I think they call it the victory lap? The customer lounge is at the top of this picture. The reception at the South entrance is at the bottom:

Our M5 next to our friend's. Sequential license plates.

The $3000 cruise distance control option on an individual frozen white M5:

I waited a whole 60 miles before hitting 170mph. Unfortunately, BMW said to keep it under 4500RPM for the first 1200 miles, so 170 is all I could do.

It's amazing what a difference that speed is. At 170mph, you're not doing anything but concentrating, with your eyes fixed on the far horizon.



At 120mph, it feels comfortable an relaxed, like you can do it all day.



At 100mph, minivans pass you like you're standing still.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Nice! Did they show you the automated storage garage underneath BMW Welt? Did you have a chance to stop in any Munich Biergartens? Drink any Augustiner Bier?

 

[fstime]

Wow, to be able to afford a facility like that just shows how much luxury automakers like BMW are raping their buyers in the amount of profit one of these vehicles must be making them.

 

[alkemyst]

Wow, to be able to afford a facility like that just shows how much luxury automakers like BMW are raping their buyers in the amount of profit one of these vehicles must be making them.

Have you seen the way those good folk that own your Wal-Mart live?

 

[manimal]

Wow, to be able to afford a facility like that just shows how much luxury automakers like BMW are raping their buyers in the amount of profit one of these vehicles must be making them.

clearly you have no idea how important a place like this is for branding and image.

clearly you have a problem with Washington DC and all its marble right?


truly epic apex!

I would have probably driven 1200 miles in circles waiting to get legal access to the roads.