Though it's nice to read through what some of the automotive publications have to say about new products, the reality is that a good portion of them are in the can. There's only a select few that are really telling it how it is.
That's why we love when real-life owners come clean about their latest acquisitions. It's even better when an owner has a ridiculous stable to take a series of astonishing photographs of their BMW M collection and the latest legend in the making, the 2012 BMW M5.
This 20-year-old Swiss owner walks us through many of the different aspects of the highly anticipated M. Take, for example, his description of the vehicle's sound.
**Make sure to read the blow-by-blow account by clicking "Read Article"
The sound:
The sound is very light when you drive normally. But when you choose all the Sportplus settings and open the throttle, you hear the sounds come alive, much more than on the 1M which really disappointed me on this point. But if you want sound, the GTS is 100x better of course...... The big advantage of the M5 (for a daily and business car) is that you can be very discrete with a 560HP car! And the best is when you upshift or brutally stop accelerating. You have the impression that something exploded. It's the same on the X5 and X6 M, but a lot louder here on the M5.
Read Article