Is This The Big Bad Wolf Or Just BMW's 2011 Twin Turbo M5 Caught Running In The Woods?

It's amazing what you can find out in the snowy woods of Sweden: our spy photographers have just bumped into the new F10-series BMW M5, the new high-performance super saloon coming in 2011.

The maximum 5-series is on winter test in Sweden, as engineers hone the new bi-turbo V8 that will replace the 5.0-litre V10 of today's E60 M5.

A V8? Turbos? What the devil are BMW playing at?

Calm down, it's all to do with emissions. The old V10 sang like a canary when you revved it, but it also gobbled the world's resources with too much abandon. So BMW's fitting the (marginally) less thirsty, downsized 4.4-litre V8 we've already seen in the X5 M and X6 M.

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Yonder7 - 2/24/2010 3:27:21 PM

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I saw BMW M5 as a "Cheeta"....Hardly as a Wolf. MB E AMG as Siberian Tiger....But with new M5 this will be a whole new game. The new M5 with the V8TT will be a Bad Ass Thanator....It is going to be an interesting year.

Wazz - 2/25/2010 2:12:45 AM

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I'm loving that rear rendering, this thing is gonna be a beast!