The BMW M5 is a killing machine.
This thing can kill you with a touch to the gas pedal. The 2006 BMW M5 has a V-10 engine and has 507 HP. But, you can set the engine in "baby mode" and throttle the HP down to 400 HP. 0-60 in 4.5 seconds and the 1/4 mile in 13 flat. For the best jump of the line. You have to do this stuff and then put it in gear and the automatic SMG 7 speed transmission takes over and takes the M5 to the moon. The transmission is designed just for the M5 and the forthcoming M6. The M5 can easily go 155 MPH and with the speed controller off you can easily achieve 200 MPH. Unlike the M5's competitors from Mercedes and Audi, the M5 does not use a turbo or supercharger to achieve the 507 HP. The automatic transmission in the new M5 will make the clutch lovers forget all about the missing clutch. Unless you are one of those ignorant people they described. 
Source: Road&Track magazine
Source: Road&Track magazine
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Roof: optional. And that's not a lame advertising slogan, that's a fact. The roof is a $900 option, if I remember corrrectly.
Damn, I love that car. I'm working right now on the logistics of squeezing a custom, electric turbo 13B job into it, because I'm not driving around in some glorified MR2.
That would give it Ducati-like power-to-weight.
This thing (especially equiped with Campa) will go through you like a hot knife through butter. It doesn t have to move. You just have to approach it the worng way and you´re split in two. Thats how sharp it is.
Originally posted by quagmire
This thing can kill you with a touch to the gas pedal.
And this is a good thing?
All that and normally aspirated...think what would happen if you did bolt on a turbo...yum.
Originally posted by benzene
Yeah, I've been watching the M5 as well.
All that and normally aspirated...think what would happen if you did bolt on a turbo...yum.
The compression would be too high, and you'd turn your shiny new motor into a basket of craked heads/pistons, and bent rods. Yay boost!
Originally posted by Matsu
The compression would be too high, and you'd turn your shiny new motor into a basket of craked heads/pistons, and bent rods. Yay boost!
Generally speaking, BMW engines aren't built for boost. As with the Nissan 3.5L V6 in some of their new vehicles, turbos don't add as much as one would think. Plus, with the M5, it would be hard to find space in the engine bay to get a turbo in there.