BEETROOT

Anyone read this? I didn't see anything about the 06 m5 on here.

http://autos.msn.com/advice/article....rc=LP%20luxury



This makes me drool.

Stand By for Take-Off . . .
Still, the marketers insist that's what the customer wants, choice, and the engineers have delivered—and then they've added that ultimate option, launch control, which goes like this: Select full, 507-horsepower grunt via the one-touch "M Drive" button on the wheel (which also optimizes the damper and stability settings and turns the effective and clear head-up instrument display into a rev-counter and gearshift indicator. Now disable the Dynamic Stability Control, select the most aggressive of the "S" shift programs, hold the gearshift lever forward and floor the throttle.

The engine builds to optimum launch revs and stays there until you let go of the lever. Then the car catapults forwards with a chirp of tires and a mighty howl of power while you keep the pedal buried in the luxurious carpet. When the revs peak, it slams into the next gear and rides out the wheelspin, and then the same again, and again, and again—with barely describable violence—until it hits the M5's voluntarily restricted 250 kph (155 mph) maximum, or in our case, an indicated 272 kph (170 mph), which the engineers put down to "tolerances."

This is a very impressive feature but also worryingly brutal, and you wonder what it's for, since it's also thoroughly anti-social. Besides, if you do it more than twice in succession you have to give the car time to recover and re-program the whole thing all over again.

phil2

that car is sick!

Minch00

Too bad it's so horrible cramped on the inside

mattg

i'm 6'3" and i fit into a new 545 just fine.

mrsteve

iTrader: (1)

The EURO M3 had a system like that. After you did it 30 times though you had to replace the clutch

Minch00

When I sat in one at the Auto show, I couldn't find a comfortable driving position, and I actually sat behind the B-pillar with the seat so far back, so I would scrape my back climbing out. Also, it rendered the seat behind the driver useless.

G

That's what my seat is like in my TL, it is just behind the b-pillar. However, I can get in and out just fine. Also, nobody has any troubles sitting behind me.

phipark

if I can remember correctly they have ample room.

Shawn S

I’d trade all that techno-gizmo slushbox launch control bullshit for third pedal on the floor & a true 6-Speed any day.

oneilc

It sounds like a fair review. I wouldn't mind trying one of those cars out. Too bad it's so damn expensive.

srika

it's a good thing the HUD is replaced with a rev counter and gear indicator when you switch into that "M" mode, because well, God forbid you wouldn't know that in a automatic-trannied car....

Crazy Bimmer

dood how big are you?

BEETROOT

Minch is 6'10" 400 lbs

I've seen him.

RaviNJCLs

iTrader: (4)

507 hps. I don't know....maybe that ain't enough. That is freaking nuts!

Minch00

Not quite

CLUofI

It was also on the US M3's. evidently there are 2 levels of launch, 2k rpm and 4k rpm. I was passenger for the 2k, and i must say it is violent and loud....and oh so fast.

I am RobG

not a big fan of the style and i can't get over that whole 2 pedal thing...i need the 3...but motorwise i'm in love