BoBcanada

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...649122,00.html

that guy is jokes hahaha nice write up...

"It’s a good job this car has so much power because by the time you’ve set it up for the journey that lies ahead you’re already very late. "

" M5 " has become what " Cadillac " was 50 years ago in terms of a general descripter . Back then " it's the Cadillac of washing machines ( or watches )" was a compliment . Now " it's the M5 of laptop computers ", etc. confers the same sense of setting the leading edge .

LoL

onesixeight

Bob...

Great find! I've noticed that Jeremy hasn't praised BMW's much lately. The British humor is great, but I wish he went into more detail about the car.

King320

Lovely review, i wish Top Gear videos were more accessable here. The site i used to get them off of went to some strange torrent format that i cant get to work.

OzE55

I sent it to my BMW friends - even they should laugh!

medici78

I found the article amusing. I am on the waiting list for the M5, but the more I drive the E55 and read about the M5, I lean towards just keeping the E55.

caliboy

"Happily, by this stage I knew where I was so I thought, “Okay, I’ll turn the sat nav off.” Well you can’t. It doesn’t matter what button you press, she continues to give her instructions over and over again until you want to bludgeon her and her family to death with an axe. Even if you pull over and turn off the engine, she lies in a state of suspended animation, waiting to spew electronic diarrhoea all over the ****pit when you set off again. "

Erik

Sure we did, .......he is a funny idiot.

Only 2 types of cars are good in the eye of Mr Clarkson, that is English cars and Ferrari.

milllx

now that's not true i've seen him like others a lot - like the mclaren he said it was "the god of thunder gargling with nails" - that's pretty positive :p i've seen him like several others as well.

onesixeight

I second that

On this week's episode of Top Gear, he showed off his new Ford GT and he has/had a SL 55 that I've seen on previous seasons.

Vic

Why don't you visit the BBC America website and request Top Gear? Here is a link to the request page... http://www.bbcamerica.com/about/cont...suggestion.jsp

If enough of us do it, they may consider adding the show to their US lineup.

mrankovic

In fact I just did that yesterday... I agree, if enough of us do it we might get it over here

nlpamg

what site is it if you don't mind? i can try to figure out the torrents... thanks!

Jon200

nope, he has an SL55 himself

Erik

I know that, it was meant as a small joke. I also know he has a SL and the new GT40.


He is a funny guy ( sometimes), but very few regard him as a serious source of information

I have seen his review of the McLaren F1 as well, and he is probably the ONLY one driven it that was not impressed by it.......

MikeHK

hmmm....
Perhaps you guys got carried away from all his humor but forgot about the last lines in the article:

"In the last five miles of my journey I discovered that deep beneath the layers of utter and complete electronic nonsense, and the rather ugly body, there’s one truly amazing car.

Just when I was thinking that BMW had made yet another car for yet another software consultant, it did something I really wasn’t expecting.

It became a full-on M5. And praise doesn’t come higher than that."

And praise doesn't come higher than that? does that include the CLS he recently tested?

Clyde

Watch the TopGear CLS-AMG video:

https://mbworld.org/forums/c219/115720-jeremy-clarkson-s-positive-review-cls55-track-test.html

He likes the CLS more then the M5 so it seems (not that he compared them; but he is more optimistic about the Merc)...

MikeHK

Well... I would recommend you to do more research or at least be update with the TopGear program before you make such statement.

Jeremy picks the M5 over the Ferrari F430. The CLS does not come close.

Jakpro1

Are there a lot more videos than what is on the topgear website?

http://www.topgear.com/content/timet...ctions/videos/

MikeHK

Try this:

www.mininova.org

search for Top Gear

you would find the latest TopGear videos. The M5 review is the July 24th one, F430 review is July 17th. The F430 review is just awesome!

zoink

Power is nothing without control....

That's why I less and less like bimmers & mercs..... somehow, they unintentionally try to take the beauty of driving away.... so many gadgets.... so many electronics... so little time to enjoy the car immediately..... don't they know? We, or may be just I, just want to have a simple yet powerful car? I just need to sit, turn it on, put the transmission in "D" or "1", floored the throttle and wooooooosssssshhhhhh....

vraa

I don't think he really said that did he? I remember him comparing the M5 to the F430 and he loved the M5 when driving it.

You might be right though, I just skimmed through that car. The review wasn't that nice. And on the track, the car looked out of control.

Jon200

there was less criticism from Jeremy on the CLS55 for sure, I have watched the CLS 55 video and M5 over n over. Thats what it seems anyway

MBAMGPWR

I wonder what car MikeHK has or is getting. :p I think you should take 3 "settle down" pills and call us in the morning.

Where's our fat forum member when we need him? I'm sure kripsyblimp has some words of wisdom for us all.

3199cc

Hes right though. Mercedes quality is shi*t these days. If I could afford a car worth over 100K and it had quality issues I'd flip out. If Lexus could be #1 in quality an customer satisfaction, why can't mercedes with all their resources?

MikeHK

He did pick the M5 over the F430 right after the review when they got back into the studio. He put it this way, the M5 has more power than the F430, double the doors and half the price. And from the review, he just love the noise and the handling of the M5 to an extend he put it in the same league as the F430. Aside from his complains on the 5 exterior and interior (which to a certain degree I agree), for a known anti-BMW guy he is, he is convinced by the performance of the M5 offers by crowning it one of the best cars in the world.

Well, please go back to his F430 review and consider how highly he rated the Ferrari, the M5 is surely something really special in my opinion.