Well a long trip up to Aberdeen on Friday was well worth it. I am now the owner of a 57 plate E60 M5, 46k miles FBMWSH and a bucket loads of options (soft close doors being my personal fav so far).

Took the 3.5 hour drive home very easily as it was pissing down, but managed to get a few hours in the dry on Sat morning. All I can say is HOLY ****
This thing does not stop accelerating, drives around town very nicely, SMG took about 5 mins to get used to.
Onto the roundabout, flick the M button, off the roundabout, foot to the floor....never felt anything like it......thrown back in the seat, active seat bolsters hugging my sides, absolute brutal power that seemsed endless, 3 figure speed before I could blink and so backed off, but left will the feeling that I had only tickled the engines capabilty.

Pics to follow but if you have the money and haven't had one of these, it s a no brainer, get one.

 

Nice

I still want the touring version but the 535d will have to suffice for now

 

Some pics added to My Garage.

 

Congrats, sounds immense

 

Nice, I've decided that this is quite likely my next car, been to see one so far but not had a test drive.
It's going to be my daily driver, i'm guessing your finding the mpg pretty bad right now while the new car lead foot is still in play?

 

Wow, I'd love one of these, especially as they seem to be coming down in price nicely
Only thing that puts me off is running costs, otherwise I'd have one in a heartbeat

 

thats my only concern, seen the costs of the clutch changes which seem to be quite common

 

MPG is going to be ok ish I think. Guy I bought it from got 19.8 in the 15months he had it, and that is a mix of town/motorway.
I reset the computer when I got it, currently showing 11mpg

 

Clutch is about £1300 from a dealer to replace I believe.

 

That's part only, I think. Then there's brakes etc etc which are quite expensive, as a lot of the parts are bespoke to the M5, which means expensive BMW parts only.

However, what a machine it is! I always get a bit giddy when I see the E60 M5's on the road - I also cannot stop listening to youtube exhaust clips (how sad is that ) When you get tired of the standard exhaust note, have a look at the Eisenmann exhausts.

 

Well you don't mess about do you? You only said a few days ago you fancied one and now you're hooning around in one


Pics needed though!!

 

Probably, was just a quick google that gave me that price. I understand that this will be in no way economical to run. I have however bought one that has been well looked after.
It is showing 30k before next service, 14k on front and 15k on rear break pads. It has full extendable dealer warranty as well.


If stuff goes, it will be expensive, I am under no illusion, but I didn't buy it to worry about these things.
I bought it because of that V10. It is pretty special thing to sit behind.

 

Some pics on My Garage. Works PC does give access to all the pic upload sites so will sort out some more tonight.

I usually buy the first car I see to be honest. I like to do all my investigation up front. The only reason for me not to buy that car would have been down to the seller not telling the whole truth. He was, and now its mine

 

Awesome car-will look forward to the pictures.Make sure that you budget for some decent security as a priority.
Oh,and some cold weather tyres!

 

Got 4 winter tyres on 18s included

 

Are they worth getting mapped? As it should give more power and get rid of the limiter

 

Lovely. I was really impressed by the noise, the power, the ride comfort, the chuckability.

 

Guy round me had a pearl white one of these with titanium exhaust system running 700bhp!! Sounded nuts!!

 

That's liveable, I'm probably going to be mainly doing motorway miles, looked up brakes, £650ish a pair, once I start the new job and fuels paid for then I'm off shoppjng

 

Awesome looking car, well done !

Lee

 

I see that the jealous ****** have been using the rating system again 5 stars from me to try and balance it up a bit Nice car

 

Few years ago on the motorway same model as yours pulled next to me had a good look at my car put his thumb up! Then he flawed it the noice it made on full chat and the pace of it was what can i say WOW

 

This video at 10 mins 20 shows the flat out pace of a derestricted E60 M5, nothing is going to live with that. Looks like cracking fun.

 

****!

 

Looks great - love the colour combo too.

Enjoy!!

 

I think it's safe to say I would get ma baws kicked from here to Brazil if the wife caught me at 117 never mind 217

Just watched that video through to the end, Brazilian drivers are fukcin nuts!!!!!!

 

cheers, had to be black

I had to leave it at home on monday and won't see it again until thursday, really missing it
, although the wife seems particularly happy this week

 

There's some sad people about. Great car and a worthy five stars from me too.

 

It's an issue that only seems to blight SN sadly, true petrolheads could not give this car anything less than 5 out of 5.... sadly SN has a fair share of blinkered morons that can't see past a Scoob and actually know very little about cars in general. Anyway 5 out of 5 from me for a fantastic and genuinely awesome car!

 

That's one hell of a machine you got there, interior looks lush.