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superSCOOP - M5 Breaks the Mould
10 Mar 2010
Someone once said BMW M cars would never be turbocharged. Woe betide – the next M5 is a biturbo V8 |
2011 BMW M5
First turbo BMW M5 to reset super saloon record books
- Further refined BMW M 4.4-litre biturbo V8 will top 100kW/litre with 450kW, 750Nm
- Should break 4-second 0-100 mark, top 320km/h if allowed to, lap the Ring in 7:50
- Turbo to help M5 to around 10l/100km, 250g/km but will it be any better on the road?
- BMW Active Aerodynamics, EfficientDynamics to bring unheard of sophistication
- Show car to break cover within a year, on sale in South Africa by mid-2011
For as long as we have loved BMW M cars, we’ve always known one fact – they would not be turbocharged. See BMW M believed the magic 100 brake horsepower per litre mark - and a dynamic package to teach supercars a lesson – to be the standards by which to build its cars.
Witness the current M5 – a 375kW (500 horsepower) 500Nm 5-litre machine with the sprinting abilities of Battle Star Galactica and the natural inbred pedigree to stuff it to anything anyone could bring as a rival. Check out any super saloon super test now six years later and guess what the yardstick always is? M5 of course…
OK – Cadillac’s CTS-V has caused quite a stir by lapping the Nurburgring faster and accelerating to 100km/h in under 4 seconds, Audi has a 427kW biturbo RS 6 on hand that finally matches M5 around Kyalami and the all-new Merc E63 AMG has fat last found a way to beat the Beemer on track too – but hey – it took six years for them to do that. Those three cars and a few others – and those specifications and achievements listed are also the gist of this story…
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