DRIVEN: So, What's It REALLY Like To Live With An All-new BMW M5 For SIX Months? Verdict Enclosed...

The all-new BMW M5 is a leviathan. Everything about it is over the top.

A 600 horsepower V8. All-wheel drive for the first time. A speedy shifting automatic that makes you forget about dual-clutch boxes. And it has just enough panache that you forget about things like the Porsche Panamera that is, frankly, still ugly.

Give me conservative any day of the week over a horror show.

But, the big question is, how is it to live with? That's an entirely different point of view aside from having a week behind the wheel.

Well, the boys and girls over at CAR Magazine in the UK had such an opportunity. And after six months with the all-new M5, here are two excerpts that help articulate its verdict.

For the FULL wrap up, click the link below.

Ah, for six, brief, glorious months I have been the Lord of Realms, Master of All I Survey, the Sovereign Prince of Oversteer. Now my BMW M5 has gone and I’m feeling much reduced. To drive such a cult car – and, in the 2018 guise, one that’s back on top form – has been a real privilege. No exaggeration, I felt a little thrill inside every day, climbing into this car...

...Apart from that, I just know the M5 recalibrated my brain with its speed, its acceleration, and its astounding carbon brakes. Stealthy, sexy and supercar fast, it’s been an intense reaffirmation of the M5’s cult status. I’m beginning to realise: it wasn’t me that was King of the Road – it was always this mind-blowing car.

 

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CANADIANCOMMENTS - 1/6/2019 9:25:18 PM

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Nobody needs a OLED screen on their key fob. I'd hate to have to replace that. As well as I may have said before, in my youth the M5 was a unicorn, mystical, lucky if you ever saw one sort of car. Extreme in its purpose, and for very unique people. Now in a world where every model has an M or M-Sport offering, it gets lost in the crowd or stuck behind an X5-M in traffic. Spare me. And to the note the line about gas mileage, Imagine this car with an electric drivetrain. You get all the fun with no downside...

PUGPROUD - 1/7/2019 8:09:05 AM

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Right on about brand dilution thru proliferation. Will not be long before M and AMG are simply trim packages. The magic and mystique has been watered down and now less satisfying.

MDarringer - 1/7/2019 8:15:16 AM

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M and AMG are trim packages. They are designed by BMW and Mercedes as a normal part of a new car's design. This is not like back in the day where AMG took a Mercedes E and turned it into the AMG Hammer.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 1/7/2019 10:06:40 AM

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@MD I think I read about the original AMG Hammer in a Car + Driver issue when I was in high school. Mind blown. That was an epic car in its day.

qwertyfla1 - 1/7/2019 10:38:36 AM

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The Hammer was a beast indeed. A buddy had one in the 90's and I salivated over that machine back when AMG was some obscure tuner and not mainstream at all or owned by Merc. Now it seems like every second Benz is a AMG or AMG trim car. My machinist that makes parts for me has a AMG S63 and he is 80. Maybe a hint he charges too much? Hmmmm....

2ndbimmer - 1/7/2019 12:43:59 PM

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Amazing piece of machinery. I have driven it multiple times and it is easy to get desensitized by the vehicle. Until you go to drive something else, you then fully appreciate the ultimate executive sports sedan.

Truthy - 1/7/2019 1:24:24 PM

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Canadian, you said there is no downside to making the M5 electric?!? It would be far more expensive and take hours to refill for starters.

PUGPROUD - 1/7/2019 1:34:04 PM

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"all the fun with no downside"...would miss the engine and exhaust sounds however much is piped in.