Three BMW M5s line up for a drag race. One of them has a serious disadvantage (RWD), while the modern car has an extra power ...

We don’t really care because, inarguably, it’s the BMW M5 that has set the standard for four decades. As the old guy at Road ...

The E34 M5 marked ... four-door muscle cars for the next decade. Who could have predicted that a car cobbled together from the BMW parts bin would turn out to be a modern classic?

Maybe it’s apt that the BMW ... the M5 for what it was quickly became part of the mystique. Essentially it was a Q-car, an ordinary-looking executive saloon powered by an extraordinary, race ...

1,650kg), BMW stated that ‘the race-based technology of the BMW M5 Sedan was transferred ... yet the E34 certainly felt like an M car rather than merely a 5 Series with a big engine.