marcus.s

Have had a bee in my bonnet for a while about changing from MY04STI PPP to something BMW M. However on paper an E55 AMG looks very interesting in an M5-humbling kinda way. Anyone got any thoughts/comments/got one?? My only problem is getting away from this notion that Mercs are for oul fellas but seen an E55 AMG last week and it look sharp!!

CrisPDuk

Sir I can do no better than point you in the direction of 'The Knowledge' in the rear pages of Evo. The W129 generation gets 'Dragster disguised as a Limo' and 4/5 stars, the current itteration gets 'M5 humbling grunt' and 4.5/5 stars

I personally intend one of these to be my everyday smoker, when the numbers come up

Andy M3

On Gran turismo 4 i find the E55 a lot easier to control around the Nurburgring than the new M5. But the E55 whines, whereas the M5 new sounds like an f1 car, and the old sounds like a spitfire ?!?!

Nice to have the choice between the 2 though.....

Hope that helps

Andy

Brendan Hughes

I think I've got the copy of Evo where they did these two plus the RS6 and a Lotus Carlton. E55 better for speed, M5 better for driver excitement, was the summary.

hail-hail

I have been looking and thinking about these for about a year now.
Everywhere there is a write-up in them they come out smelling of roses. You can pick up a good one for about 20K.

I will probably still be thinking about them next year as I have just bought a modded Evo 6 , not quite the same thing, guess the merc is still just a little old man for me

Andy M3

I think a similar review can be found in top gear magazine, with the E55, RS6 and the M5. Clarkson prefered the RS6 as all that power was well tamed, but he loved the E55 for sheer performance i think the M5 was gonna loose either way as he is not a BMW man !?!?

midget1500

dribble - E55 mmm awesome cars. The ultimate E class.