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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 10:47 PM
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Latest M5 news from the UK (pics)

http://www.germancarfans.com/feature...id/1050527.001
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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 11:01 PM
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Lastest M5 News from Newport Beach: New M5 sports over-the-top performance, but it's still butt ugly...

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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 12:44 AM
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What did that article say that we don't already know??
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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 09:13 AM
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Chuby-looking, the M5 is.
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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 10:16 AM
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All it needs is a little mustache on the front....looks just too much like a face.
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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 10:56 AM
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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 11:12 AM
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I concur with you, whole heartedly.
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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 02:25 PM
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All it needs is a little mustache on the front... looks just too much like a face.

It's the 3/4 view that does it in.

I own a design shop and not a person here can follow the lines on this car... It may be a technical masterpiece, a driving marvel, but it's a visual menagerie...

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The car looks pretty darn good here...
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nope it doesn't. Thats why I moved my deposit to the M6....
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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 10:37 PM
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nope it doesn't. Thats why I moved my deposit to the M6....
To me it does. I like the M6 as well.
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Old Jun 6, 2005 | 11:06 PM
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nope it doesn't. Thats why I moved my deposit to the M6....
to the m6?? thats worse imo. look inthe mirror, pull down your eyelids. does that look good??? to erach his own i know.
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The M6 IMO looks nice. The M5 looks good in the most recent picture because it's very dark.
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