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The E60 M5 – A Quasi Dark Horse?

Here’s my point: The BMW E60 M5 seems like a “dark horse,” a car that prides itself in a bleak appearance but offers potent power, a snide slap in the aluminum face to any more voluptuous competitors. If the BMW E60 M5 sported a particularly dreary countenance, the term might be applicable. But it seems [...]

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E60 M5 SMG Doesn’t Like Austrian Winter

This E60 M5 owner must be terribly frustrated at his BMW dealer because, as he says in the title to his post, the dealer destroyed his car. The problem began when the 14-degree Austrian weather caused his SMG transmission to show a fault, aka, the red cog of death. Later on, the car kept on [...]

February 21st, 2012 | Continued
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Would You Consider Replacing An E60 M5 For Another BMW?

With the relative availability and affordability of the E60 M5 nowadays, it’s not a big surprise that you see a lot of queries and talk about acquiring an E60 M5. This guy, on the other hand, is talking about giving up his E60 M5 in favor of an F10 550. An F10 M5 is out [...]

February 17th, 2012 | Continued
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Gallery Of E60 M5 Supercharger Install

No dyno numbers on this post yet, but if you want to see how an E60 M5’s engine bay with a supercharger looks like, this is the thread to go to. Here, several pictures show the installation of an ESS supercharger kit using a Vortech V3Si supercharger. If you go to the ESS Tuning website, [...]

February 15th, 2012 | Continued
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E60 M5 Owner Wonders Why iDrive Update Is Rejected

This E60 M5 owner had an intermittent glitch in his 2005 M5 that, because of its nature, could not be readily repeated in the shop. What was happening was the car would go into limp mode without any reason at all. Anyway, this owner resorted to a battery change then a software update as he [...]

February 11th, 2012 | Continued
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2008 E60 M5 For Sale In California

For sale on an M5 board is this 2008 Space Gray E60 M5 with only 36,000 miles on the odometer. According to the seller, this BMW M5 has all the options available for the car in that year, except for a heated steering wheel. He adds that the car cost him $102,000. The pictures of [...]

February 9th, 2012 | Continued
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E60 M5s Now At A Very Attractive Price Point

With the newest BMW M5 out on the market for a few months, a lot of folks are excited over the fact that the E60 M5’s value is now very low. Meaning that all of you lusting after the car all this time are probably thinking seriously about putting one in the garage. And here [...]

February 7th, 2012 | Continued
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Stock E60 M5 Looks Plain But Menacing

Here’s a picture of a black E60 M5 travelling down a road, with the driver probably oblivious that a picture was being taken of his black beauty. What caught our eye with this particular car is its seeming plainness. It looks exactly like what BMW intended the E60 M5 to be, which is a (very) [...]

February 3rd, 2012 | Continued
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BMW E60 M5 Review Too Focused On Track Skills

Watching this E60 M5 review, I was struck by how almost all “reviews” involve driving the car to its limits, tires smoking, tail end stepping out, the driver on opposite lock. Admittedly, tests of this kind have their place so that “my stick is bigger than your stick” reviews can be written up. And for [...]

January 31st, 2012 | Continued
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New Wheels A Standout On The E60 M5

One would guess that regular readers of this blog like their E60s fast and tough-looking. No one who sees an M5 badge on the back of an E60 series should mistake it for one of the marque’s more pedestrian models. And for some owners, the E60 M5-specific OEM wheels aren’t aggressive-looking enough. Which is why [...]

January 27th, 2012 | Continued
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Warranty Saves E60 M5 Buyer From Costly Outlay

There’s a guy looking to buy a 2006 E60 M5 that’s still got a warranty on it. From the way he sounds, it looks like the car is a certified pre-owned vehicle, which explains the warranty. According to this would-be buyer, the tranny shifts from 7th to 1st on its own and he’s thinking that [...]

January 19th, 2012 | Continued
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