Was driving to town with my girlfriend to have lunch last week when I pull up at a red light next to a silver 5 series with quad exhaust. Another poser trying to pass off his 520i as an M5 i thought to myself (we have loads over here by the way) ...

No WAIT, I look again and it had M5 side grills and aero mirrors with blacked out indicators! So now its either a good fake or a real M5. He sees me too and must be wondering the same thing to himself. Btw, he was alone. Well, only one way to find out! I put my transmission to 'M' and waited anxiously ... Never ran an M5 before and have been waiting a long time

1st Run:
When the lights turn green we both roll off slowly then nail it almost simultaneously. That thing was #!$%@$ fast, an M5 for sure! I edged ahead initially but then botched my gearchange as I hit an uneven surface during shifting and traction came on big time. During that split second the Bimmer caught up and even though I regained power in time, he had the momentum and I feared the worst. Luckily the massive AMG torque came to my rescue and I managed to hang on side by side through 2nd. By middle of 3rd I was about 2 cars ahead and he backed off as we were approaching a bend. We stop again side by side at the next set of lights and give each other the thumbs up.

2nd run:
Lights turn green again, we both turn right and as soon and he straightens up he guns it and I follow suit. No mistakes this time and I pull on him through 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears. By end of first he was at my bumper, by end of 2nd he was about 2 cars behind and by middle of third about 3 cars behind. I think we hit about 100mph before slowing down for traffic.

The M5 looked stock and I was very impressed with how fast it was. I know its very hot over here and heat might have had an effect on the outcome, but at least its still a win

 

cool torque FTW
nice kill

 

Good race...

I see you have lots of mods...including Cams, TB and ASP pullies...How much power does your car make ???

 

Twisties.... :-)

 

I am being sarcastic by the way before some starts to flame on me! Great kill..

 

Russ:

I dynoed the car on a notoriously conservative dyno and got only 529bhp and 807Nm of torque. A 360 Challenge Stradale dynoed only 340bhp on the same day. We all believe the dyno is using the wrong correction factor and it is always off by around 10% so I believe my car should be putting out around 580hp ATF.

X-tian:

Last time I raced an M-car on a twisty, he flipped the car so no more twisties for me!

 

Good kill, but not as impressive as I would have thought with all those mods.

 

True... its time to get an M5

 

Well to his credit he said the M5 looked stock doesn't necessarily mean it is stock. Good kill in my book

 

Its pretty easy to tell if an M5 is stock, it sounds like a diesel in stock trim.

Modded, it sounds more like an F1 car.

 

I think the most impressive thing about this story is they got to 100 mph in Singapore.
I am assuming it's Singapore. There's NO WAY to run 100 mph in Central London :-))

 

Point taken but exhaust is not the only mod that can be done to the M.

 

No, but in 90% of cases, it's the first. After maybe the charcoal mod.

 

humidity and heat are not good friends of the 55

no matter how many mods it has..

I would give the slight edge to the NA cars under those conditions.

 

Not saying the location but you can do so in Central London with the right car. I remember doing so a couple of times on Park Lane at night

 

Yes, I thought I would be faster than that. But having said that, the car is definitely faster at night when its 5-6 deg cooler.

 

yup, I think without your mods you wouldnt have had a chance

 

and then you woke up....

 

But the problem is the looks IMO, I just dont get a good feeling and when spending that much on a car its too much to overcome. But then I realized the M5's are seriously dropping in value (not to say the 55's arent but they have been around for almost 5 years). Check out these sales (auction but you get the idea):

2006 M5

05/03/07 MANHEIM Regular $70,000 8,085 Avg BLACK 10G Yes
05/03/07 MANHEIM Regular $69,000 1,954 Avg BLUE 10G Yes
05/03/07 MANHEIM Regular $65,500 19,513 Avg BLACK 10G A Yes
05/02/07 ATLANTA Regular $68,700 4,298 Avg BLACK 10G M Yes
05/02/07 BAY CITI Factory $67,750 3,224 Avg SLVRSTON 10G A Yes
05/02/07 BAY CITI Factory $62,500 12,791 Below TITNSLVR 10G A Yes
05/02/07 BAY CITI Factory $61,000 19,546 Below TITNSLVR 10G A No
05/02/07 MANHEIM Factory $69,750 2,238 Avg SEPANG B 10G Yes
05/02/07 MANHEIM Factory $65,750 8,295 Avg BLKSAPPH 10G Yes
04/26/07 RIVRSIDE Regular $69,000 13,428 Avg SILVER 10G A Yes
04/26/07 RIVRSIDE Factory $63,000 10,494 Below SLVR STN 10G T Yes
04/26/07 RIVRSIDE Factory $59,500 12,817 Below INTLGBLU 10G A No
04/25/07 NADE Lease $72,500 1,322 Above BLACK SA 10G A Yes
04/25/07 W PALM Regular $68,000 21,615 Avg GRAY 10G A Yes
04/19/07 NEVADA Regular $69,000 9,637 Avg SILVER 10G A Yes
04/19/07 NEVADA Factory $66,500 7,721 Avg SILVSTON 10G A Yes
04/17/07 DFW Regular $63,000 24,714 Below BLACK 10G 6 No
04/11/07 MILWAUKE Regular $68,500 7,928 Avg SILVERST 10G A Yes
04/11/07 W PALM Regular $63,000 12,828 Below MAROON 10G A Yes

 

Vic, how are "factory" and "regular" rated on a scale of 1 to 10?

 

what would happen stock for stock

 

I think stock for stock it's a drivers race

 

M5 no doubt

 

And then...you were asked to wake up again.

 

I would say 0-100, 20/40 -100 the e55 will win but at higher speeds the m5 will win.