NEW BMW M5 review (inc. 0-100 & skids): This was ALMOST the worst car in M history

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I genuinely wanted to love the new BMW M5 when I was driving it around the city, but I really, really disliked it. We almost didn't even film the review because I didn't think being at a closed track would improve the driving experience. Happy to say, I was completely wrong...  Hardness tester, noise and lane keeping results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior: 00:55 Interior: 03:30 Infotainment: 05:17 Practicality: 08:46 Charging: 11:45 On the Road: 12:14 Hotlap: 23:17 Driver aids: 25:00 Performance: 25:54 Verdict: 31:21  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #bmw #m5 #review

Transcript

00:00I literally bought an M5 so I can hear this. I didn't buy an i5 so that everything was silent

00:05and it was quick. I bought an M5. Well, we removed the complication of the front axle intervening.

00:14You can basically just sit here and do this all day long.

00:22This is so good. G'day, I'm Paul. This is the new BMW M5 and there's quite a bit that's changed

00:28actually. So, it's cheaper than the old one. It's $260,000 but unfortunately it's heavier,

00:35significantly heavier and slower than the old one as well which makes absolutely no sense to me.

00:39So, the reason it is slower is because they've put a giant battery in here to meet all these

00:43ridiculous emissions regulations that we have out there at the moment. So, today we're going to do

00:48a detailed review of this. If you do want to skip head to other parts of this review you've got time

00:51cards on the screen or if you're on YouTube you can scroll down and use the chapters below. Now,

00:56design. Look, I'm a massive fan of the new 5 Series just in general. Looks really cool but this

01:03colour and just this spec it looks so sinister especially when you know you've got low lights

01:09it's night or sort of dusk and you just see this sort of driving around with that big grille that

01:14lights up there as well. Like it is just a really cool looking design. So, all your colours are free

01:18of charge. You do have to pay extra for the frozen colours which is this matte finish they have on this

01:23vehicle here. All the cars in Australia also come with the the drive professional pack I think it's

01:29called which is basically the the extended top speed to over 300 kilometres an hour. This one's

01:34also got the carbon roof and optional carbon ceramic brakes as well. So, down the front here this

01:39design is shared amongst the fully electric i5 and also here the m5 as well but you do have

01:46variances in terms of grille openings. So, with the m5 because it needs a significant amount of cooling for

01:51the twin turbo v8 and for the hybrid system you've got a lot of open gaps there for it to sort of

01:56attract as much air as it can. You've got to consider as well this car is capable of doing over 300

02:02kilometres an hour so not only do you have to have cooling but you have to have significant aero as

02:07well to maintain sort of downforce and give this the stability it needs at that speed which is just

02:12insane stuff. Full LED matrix headlights and then around the side here when you're through the the tyre

02:18and wheel package so staggered design 20 and 21 inch this has the optional carbon ceramic brakes so

02:24410 mil rotor that's cross drilled six piston caliper at the front and then a single piston

02:30caliper at the rear also on a carbon ceramic rotor. More carbon over here on the wing mirror and

02:36on the roof as well like I mentioned so weight reduction on the roof too so it all sort of helps

02:42despite the fact the car is like 500 kilos heavier than the previous generation but all that stuff sort of

02:47adds in. 5 series I like this this design here with these door handles flush to the body it's a really

02:54sort of cool looking neat neat setup. M5 here on the Hoffmeister kink around the back carbon again here

03:02on that boot lip spoiler. M5 badge and these sort of piano black diffusers with some proper quad exhaust

03:10outlets and a sort of shark fin style aerial well a shark that was in a fight because the top's kind of

03:16cut off. So let me know what you reckon about the M5 design are you concerned about the weight that

03:22it's slower etc etc or does that not bother you are you just after like a plug-in hybrid performance car

03:28let me know what you reckon in the comment section below. Okay so we're inside the M5 this is what the

03:34key looks like you've got the BMW logo there for lock unlock boot and you have a diamond there to flick

03:41the lights on and then just blank on the back proximity sensing key so you can just grab the door handle

03:45and there's a big red start button once you hop inside. So let's talk about the design to start with

03:50things I don't like don't like all this piano black it's kind of just everywhere here and after spending

03:55a few days with the car it's all pretty filthy full of fingerprints and stuff like that so but outside

04:01of that I do like the rest of this I'm a big fan of technology and BMW is really kicking a lot of goals

04:07at the moment on the tech front so you've got these two enormous displays ahead of the driver

04:11BMW's latest version of their operating system is excellent too like it really just has fixed all of

04:17the little bugs they had with the previous generations of this and just works really well

04:21also like the LED lighting game all of this stuff lights up in just a really cool way you've got the

04:27BMW M colors they've really just gone for a theme and stuck with it here and I think it works really

04:32well so quite impressed with all of that and of course being a sort of BMW M product as well you've

04:37got M switches up the top there and this M steering wheel as well so all of that all of that looks

04:43pretty good. Now in terms of your touch points so nice there on the center and decent on the door as

04:49well how soft are those touch points we've got our durometer we've tested all the main surfaces in

04:55this cabin so if you do want to see how this car compares to others that we've tested before

04:59there is a link in the description below. Now what about builds quality? It is built like a battle

05:05tank really it is just solid as a rock this is what the door slam sounds like

05:10fortunately no soft closed doors which is a little bit disappointing. Infotainment time so screen ahead

05:19of the driver 12.3 inch display center screen is almost 15 inches it is an absolute whopper of a screen

05:25so this is your home screen this is kind of where you can configure where your cards sit and you can

05:30move those around as required. You have inbuilt satellite navigation so let me click on that again

05:37it actually allows you to flick between CarPlay and the internal satellite navigation which I think is

05:43is a pretty good feature. You then have this where all of your apps sit so you can sort of go through

05:48and start clicking on some of these and look it's actually a really good setup because depending on what

05:55you have the ability to just go through and pick whichever thing you want it's all sort of in this

06:00one menu and then it sort of breaks it up into those two different functions as well. This is what

06:05Apple CarPlay looks like so it's a wireless setup. Now it is interesting I think I've spoken previously

06:10about this CarPlay issue that I've been encountering in cars and I'm fairly certain now that it's actually

06:17an Apple issue and not not a hardware issue in these cars and what it does is basically you'll be on a

06:22phone call and you'll all of a sudden get the thing lag for like a second then your phone call

06:28lags for a second so you end up just talking over each other and there just doesn't seem to be a fix

06:34for it you have to basically just lock the car get out of it get back in and restart everything for it

06:38to actually fix itself and then you'll find sometimes as well if I have like Waze running

06:42it'll just freeze for a second and then jump ahead to the next sort of waypoint. I don't know just

06:48a little side rant Apple what I just don't know what they're doing at the moment the phones are

06:53just so buggy and yeah I don't know they need to get their stuff together urgently because it's

07:00starting to annoy me. Do you have these issues on your phone with wireless CarPlay let me know

07:04in the comments section below. You've also got Android Auto I'll show you that in just a second but

07:09first sound system you have an 18 speaker Bowers and Wilkins sound system that comes standard

07:15AM FM DAB digital radio the sound system is fantastic I'm a really big fan of that

07:20and then in addition to that Android Auto I'll show you what that looks like

07:24so full screen there as well and really nice and sharp too excellent screen ahead of the driver

07:31you've got a number of different customizations there along with the head up display that you

07:36navigate through on this right hand side it is interesting BMW has gone down the path of

07:40kind of not letting you do much until the car is on and every time you open the door the car just

07:45switches off so I don't know whether that's just an electric slash plug-in hybrid thing but a little

07:50bit annoying I'd love to just be able to run the the car on functions without having to start the car

07:55but anyway just a minor little gripe there. So I'll show you what the reverse camera looks like I'm

07:58going to flick the car on so there it is there so because it's detected the suitcase it's giving you

08:04that top-down view but you can actually change that to sort of any number of other views that

08:10you want to change it to which is good and then you've also got a couple of interesting functions

08:20and we've covered this before in previous videos but being able to kind of revisit the reverse path

08:26that you took if you get down a narrow street you don't know how to get out of it it will basically

08:31just retrace your steps which I think is is a really cool sort of setup so yeah a lot of a lot

08:37of cool functions here to work with and they've really thought about everything including cleaning

08:41the camera. All right and this is what the horn sounds like. So moving on to practicality and we'll

08:48start off with your connectivity you've got wireless phone charging two USB-C outlets in the center console

08:54here you've got a 12 volt outlet tiny little center console you can't really sort of store too much in

08:59there and outside of that you really don't have a great deal of storage around here glove box

09:05fairly reasonably sized there and no sunglasses holder. In terms of your comfort so you've got

09:13dual zone automatic climate control up the front here you have heated and cooled seats heated steering

09:19wheel the other thing worth noting as well they're kind of hidden all of the air vents you don't really

09:22see them but you control them here using these little I don't even know what you'd call those these

09:26roller things so you can go left and right up and down but if you do want to control how much air is

09:31actually coming out you've got these little sliders here that allow you to open and close it by varying

09:35degrees so a little bit of complexity there but I think it's a different way to do things. In terms of

09:41the seats have a look at this design it is just outrageously out there very red M5 logo just here

09:48and they hug you in beautifully so they are very supportive seats to be sitting in. A litany of seat

09:54adjustments so you can go forwards and backwards you can move your backrest forwards and backwards

09:59you can lift the front of the seat the back of the seat you can change your lumbar adjustment there

10:05pushing the seat button on the door here allows you to then further change things like the seat

10:11cushions at the front side backrest like there's just so much you can actually change here which

10:17which is pretty cool and you've got seat memory as well. Now in terms of the steering wheel it offers both

10:22tilt and reach adjustment electrically and on our reach test all of this stuff is fairly easy to

10:29reach while you're driving. So back seat because of the wheelbase just over three meters which is

10:35pretty big for a sedan you've actually got decent amount of knee room, toe room is reasonable, headroom

10:40is really good and it's quite a comfy place to be seated which is nice so you have an extra two zones

10:46of climate control here plus heated seats for the second row, USB-C ports, air vents and then

10:52preparation plus USB-C plus preparation for screens and holders here. Manual blinds I would have thought

10:59on a top spec 5 series you'd expect to have electric blinds but I guess it is what it is.

11:05Centre armrest here, couple of cup holders on our window test. We'll see if it goes all the way down

11:10so it's auto up and down. Oh yes very nice. So cargo space what's it like? Given the car has grown

11:18the car's longer, wider, taller, it's on a bigger wheelbase it means you get more cargo space so

11:25under 500 litres but it's over 100 litres more than the previous generation. Ironically enough

11:30it's also where you store all your cables which kind of eats into the extra space that you get.

11:34Tire repair kit in here as well because you don't have a spare tyre but it looks like with a bag in

11:39there so not a not an enormous space but it's a welcome addition over the previous generation of

11:45this. So before we go for a spin let's talk about your battery and charging. So a capacity of around

11:5118 kilowatt hours you only have AC charging. They have upgraded this though it was only capable of

11:58doing about 7 kilowatts but now you can do 11 kilowatts of three-phase AC charging. Means that you're

12:03going to charge the battery in around two hours which I think it's pretty pretty decent. Now that'll give

12:07you around 70 or so kilometres worth of driving range as if you run it with the engine switched

12:13off. Okay so we have just hit the road in the M5. I'm excited for this because every new generation

12:24of these hardcore BMW products signals new technology and just a new way of thinking and delivering more.

12:33In this instance they've kind of done the opposite because they've gone backwards a step in terms of

12:38weight and acceleration to a hundred. So I'd be curious to see whether that sort of translates to

12:43the to the whole experience. Now I've had normally when we test these cars out I don't spend a huge

12:48amount of time in them. I get to know them drive them home all that sort of stuff. This I've spent a

12:53lot of time in it and I feel like I've really gotten to know it quite well. What I haven't really done

12:58is gone too ballistic on it. I've just been driving it around as a daily and I'll run you through my

13:03thoughts on that in a second but let's begin with the drivetrain. So under the bonnet you've got a

13:074.4 litre twin turbocharged petrol engine. So it's a V8. Nice selection for this type of vehicle.

13:15430 kilowatts of power. 750 newton metres of torque. It's different to the previous generation of this

13:20V8 and it's kind of akin to what they have fitted to the XM. That is mated then to a 145 kilowatt and

13:28280 newton metre electric motor and that works kind of in series with the transmission to give you

13:35that boost when you need it and also to allow the vehicle to run like it is now with the internal

13:40combustion engine switched off. Combined over 500 kilowatts of power and 1,000 newton metres of torque.

13:48It's basically a Silverado 2500. Maybe not that much torque but you get what I mean. It is a

13:56powerhouse in terms of torque and it's all mated by the way to an eight-speed automatic transmission.

14:01So all that stuff sounds fantastic and it works fine as a daily. Most of the time when you switch

14:08the car on it's basically just running in electric mode and you can kind of just really be on the

14:14throttle and you're not going to switch the internal combustion engine on it. It just runs in electric.

14:18The issue that I've got though is that I bought an M5. I want to hear a V8. I don't want to hear

14:26this fake noise that's getting inducted into the cabin now. I literally bought an M5 so I can hear

14:30this. I didn't buy an i5 so that everything was silent and it was quick. I bought an M5. So that bit

14:36kind of annoys me. Yes you can set up your M button so that the engine switches on but each time you get

14:42into the car you've got to activate that. It just seems like a redundant step to take. Why can't I

14:46just have engine noise? The second part though that I think is probably a little more unacceptable than

14:51that is the way that the engine fires up when you do finally need it and that will happen when you

14:57need to kick down on the throttle a bit harder. So I'll do that now. Like you have this weird lag so

15:04you get the electric you then get a moment where the gearbox has to potentially kick down and then

15:11it has to engage the internal combustion engine and start going. It is just a really unpleasant

15:16experience and it's really I don't know I just don't like it and it's one of the things that

15:21really has irritated me with the car and the issue as well further to that is if you have been driving

15:26around in electric mode for some time. When it does kick on for the first time on cold start it revs all

15:32the way up past 2000 rpm so it sits there idling with high revs while it warms up. So it's just a

15:38few of those things that I reckon have a few hairs on them and they could fix by just having it default

15:43to switching the engine on but that of course defeats the whole reason this car is the way that it is

15:48and is as heavy as it is which is for emissions laws otherwise I just don't know that they would have

15:53bothered fitting any of this stuff to it. All right so that's all that slightly negative stuff out of

15:57the way. What does that mean in terms of fuel economy? So according to BMW you're averaging under

16:02two litres per 100 k's and it's a bit of a furphy that because the combined cycle they use to measure

16:07plug-in hybrids takes into account a set distance where you kind of drain part of the battery and then

16:13the engine has to kick on. It's not really realistic. The realistic number they do give you though

16:17is that the fuel economy once the battery is empty is around that 11 litre per 100 mark which

16:23is is basically what we're experiencing so that is that is all sort of pretty straightforward.

16:28So what does all that feel like behind the wheel? Well if you are just driving in the regular mode

16:31you get plenty of poke there from the the hybrid system and then when it does kick on like it gives

16:39you a really nice and meaty push in the back and then you get part of that inducted noise come into

16:45the cabin too. So from a from an acceleration perspective it is actually all really nicely pieced

16:50together and the ride itself is also surprisingly good too. You picture an M5 and one that certainly

16:56weighs about two and a half tonnes and you think this is going to be really unpleasant but it is

17:00on the firmer side being a sports car but it is not over the top. They've really just engineered a nice

17:05amount of comfort into it so that you feel like you're driving something sporty but it doesn't feel

17:09like it's going to require a visit to the chiropractor after you've done a few k's in your new car.

17:14Now what does the ride feel like on our sine wave? We do this at 130 k's an hour which gives us a good

17:21understanding of what the body control is like as the speed picks up if you're going to do a bit

17:26of country driving. Typically with these stiffer cars it's it's pretty good so we'll see what this

17:31feels like. Yeah no dramas at all.

17:34Okay bumpy road time. You do this at 90 k's an hour. Let's see what it's like if you find yourself

17:42on a shocker of a road. Do you want to hear something funny? We're testing the GWM Canon today

17:50as well and this is more comfortable than the GWM Canon on this road. That is hilarious. There you go.

17:59Very nice. Let's talk about visibility. So I can see really clearly down the front there the head-up

18:03display is fantastic. Gives you really good coverage. Wing mirrors are nice and big. Blind spot

18:08monitor visibility out the back is pretty good. So sort of tick tick tick on all that stuff and then

18:12in terms of low speed stuff with parking you've got a great set of cameras there to make maneuvering

18:16this vehicle pretty easy despite its size because it is quite large. Now what about road noise? You

18:20are on a sportier tyre so on coarse chip surfaces it will project a bit more noise into the cabin. Not the

18:26end of the world but just something to take note of. This is how it went when we put it up against

18:31our calibrated sound meter. If you do want to see how this car compares to others that we've tested

18:34before there is a link in the description below. Now there are like a litany of customization options

18:41here like it is insane what you can do. Basically drivetrain, the amount of recovery you get from the

18:47regen system. I love that you're able to configure that. The drive logic which is how hard it shifts

18:52gears. The chassis which is how stiff everything is. The steering, the brake pedal feel whether it has a

18:58shorter or further travel. The M drive because it is standard as a four-wheel drive. You have

19:03four-wheel drive sport which is only accessible in MDM and we're going to play with this a little bit

19:07later on. Two-wheel drive and then you have the option of switching M sound on and off and of course

19:12then you can configure your M modes as well which are these buttons on the steering wheels. There is

19:16a stack of sort of stuff you can actually play with there. Okay so we'll go for a faster drive now.

19:21I want to run you just quickly through the M hybrid modes. So dynamic plus dynamic hybrid.

19:26Electric and e-control. So electric pretty straightforward. It just runs in electric.

19:30E-control allows you to charge the battery. Hybrid is just your standard drive mode but dynamic plus

19:35basically charges the system so that you can get full potential out of the battery. So

19:40I'm going to pop this into M1 which I've configured for four-wheel drive sport.

19:45All right. Holy moly. This is fast. All right we're going to go for a lap of

19:52our track here. This is on high alert at the moment.

20:02Wow. Let's go. This is so good. Oh my goodness. It is so fast. Like

20:10oh man. This is on another planet. It's hard to just fathom how such a heavy vehicle is moving so

20:24quickly and it appears that it holds revs quite high to maybe charge the battery or something. It's

20:32these brakes are phenomenal as well. Like it is giving me

20:37so much feedback and just the way it sits flat through these corners is next level. Like you just

20:47the perception of the weight of the vehicle vanishes immediately. Here on the backstroke

20:52give a little punch. Oh my goodness. Like that is

20:56that is absolutely hauling ass. Wow. Yeah look I mean you can see that BMW has built this

21:08primarily as a car that is just going to be phenomenally quick in a straight line

21:13and a car that is is not really about strictly daily driving. Like this this is an absolute animal

21:21when you when you put it into these sport modes. I honestly can't even concentrate properly here.

21:26I have to like just watch what I'm doing because it is so fast. Oh my god. I I just was not

21:35expecting it to be like this. This is this is absolutely unreal. Give me one more punt here.

21:45Oh man. Once those tires are warm it's um it's it is

21:52all right I'm I have to slow slow down just to to gather my thoughts here because this is just

22:01something else. I genuinely came here today having only driven it on the road and just done

22:06sort of basic driving thinking this thing ain't much chop and I think they've absolutely ruined it by

22:11adding all of this hybrid malarkey to it. Right right now I'm this is one of the fastest cars I've

22:18over driven. Like it is unbelievably quick. They've somehow made a car that weighs two and a half tons

22:24feel like a 911 and I don't know how they've done it but they have done it. It is it is like I'm

22:30literally sweating here at the moment. So yeah this this is something else. I think with a skilled

22:35driver uh and a big racetrack this this would just demolish some really smaller faster cars. Like it is

22:42it's really difficult to explain. The the hybrid system in no way detracts from from the driving

22:48experience here. Like it is it is something else. Like the only downside I can think of really is

22:54just the noise. Like I don't notice anything here inside the cabin. When I had it set up on that M

22:58mode I had M sound off which is all the fake stuff in here and I couldn't hear a thing. So I would love

23:03to just have a meaty old exhaust on this thing so I actually know what's going on. But that is genuinely

23:08the only negative I can find at the moment with how this performs when the speed picks up. Now I'm

23:12going to be quiet so you can have a listen to what this sounds like uh with a lap of that track here.

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24:35Now let's talk about the semi-autonomous function.

25:02So we do this on our bowl here on the three outer lanes just to see how well it holds

25:07the vehicle in its lane.

25:08So we'll get up to 70.

25:10There it is there.

25:12So like I said, I've spent a lot of time driving this car now, including a lot of highway driving,

25:16and I found this system to be really good.

25:19And it does stuff that it may not do it here because we're not on a highway, what the GPS

25:24designates as a highway, but it changes lanes for you as well.

25:28So I'll just see if that works.

25:29No, it doesn't work here.

25:30So yeah, holding itself here in this lane, let's move over to the next lane.

25:35We'll see how it goes up here.

25:39All right.

25:40There we go.

25:41Look at that dead centre.

25:43Very impressive.

25:43All right.

25:44Jump over to outermost lane.

25:45This is the one where each car struggles basically.

25:49Look at that.

25:49Perfect.

25:51Wow.

25:51Very impressive.

25:52So it works in all three lanes I've been waiting for.

25:57Let's see how quick this will go from zero to 100.

26:01We know based on BMW's numbers that this is, what, 3.5 seconds slower than the previous

26:07generation of this.

26:08But let's see how it goes anyway.

26:09We'll go all the way through to 120 just so we can get our overtaking time as well.

26:14So here we go.

26:15Launch control, brake and throttle.

26:17It'll come up saying launch here and on the head up display and then we should be ready

26:21to rumble.

26:22So here we go.

26:23Oh, far out.

26:36All right.

26:37There's 120.

26:38Holy moly.

26:39It like spins up off the line there.

26:41That is, it's funny.

26:43Even though this is slower than the old one on paper, that felt very brutal and fast, which

26:48tells me that it really is only slower because of the weight as opposed to how quickly it's

26:52accelerating.

26:53So 0 to 100, there you go, 3.49.

26:56So pretty much bang on the advertised claim.

26:5980 to 120 now.

27:00That's where it's at.

27:00Once it's moving, 1.88 seconds.

27:03That is stupidly quick.

27:05That is stupidly quick.

27:07Very nice.

27:07All right.

27:08We're going to go do a stop from 100 k's an hour just to see how this pulls up.

27:13All right.

27:14There is 100.

27:16Okay.

27:20Oh, jeez.

27:22My face is like getting pulled off my head.

27:26Oh, look at all that flashing red as well.

27:27That's cool.

27:28Okay.

27:29So 100 to 0, 3.12 seconds, 39.56 metres.

27:33So not an amazing stopping distance.

27:35It should be much closer to that 35 metre mark.

27:37But it is probably because of its mass.

27:39It is a lot of mass to be lumbering around.

27:42Do you want to see how this compares to other cars that were tested before in terms of those

27:46figures?

27:46There is a link in the description below.

27:48All right.

27:48Let's see how quick it goes in reverse.

27:50Here we go.

27:53All right.

27:5537 kilometres an hour.

27:57Now, for a bit of fun.

27:58I didn't want to destroy the tyres.

27:59So we've wet down the skid pan.

28:01But I do want to see how well the four-wheel drive sport mode works with stability control

28:06on and off.

28:07So I'm going to put it into MDM four-wheel drive sport.

28:11We'll just see how that feels.

28:13So I'm just curious to see how much slip MDM gives you.

28:16Okay, so yeah, look, it sort of lets you have a bit of fun with it.

28:27But what you'll notice there is when I turn sort of back in, it's, yeah, it's kind of

28:36just understeering a little bit.

28:38So, and that's MDM.

28:40It's basically designed to give you just a little bit of slip out on the open road, but

28:43not sort of anything too crazy.

28:45So we'll switch stability control off entirely.

28:49Let's just see what that feels like.

28:51So this is again in four-wheel drive sport.

29:01That's about, so it's letting me use the, yeah, it's letting me use the front wheels to turn

29:08and to control it.

29:10Let me just try that one more time.

29:13You see, when I've got the lock on,

29:27it comes up saying support from assistance.

29:30Okay, so it's, it's basically just coming on and saying, I don't love what you're doing

29:34here.

29:35So there is a fix for that.

29:36And that is to just go to two-wheel drive.

29:38Okay, here we go.

29:39So let's see how that works instead.

29:42So this is just rear-wheel drive now.

29:48That's better.

29:49When we remove the complication of the front axle intervening, you can basically just sit

30:02here and do this all day long.

30:05This is so good.

30:10And you've got a thousand Newton meters at your disposal here when you're doing this as well,

30:15which I think is probably the craziest, craziest part to it all.

30:21It is, it is so bloody cool.

30:23Probably the best part though, is that you can still do traditional sort of M5 stuff like,

30:29like donuts.

30:35And then when you grab second,

30:40it is just tire smoke city.

30:44Oh man, this, this thing is unreal.

30:46Like I know they have to do all this nonsense with the plug-in hybrid and all that sort of stuff

30:53to meet emissions laws.

30:54But I love the fact that I can just come in here, go, no, no, I want two-wheel drive.

30:59I'm going to switch everything off and I'm going to have as much fun as I want.

31:03And I think that is what makes this the, the ultimate driving machine.

31:06Like other brands just wouldn't allow you to do any of this stuff.

31:09So, um, yeah, like I absolutely love it.

31:12Okie dokie.

31:23So, look at that guy in.

31:25Um, so what do we reckon about the BMW M5?

31:28Look, I'll be a hundred percent honest.

31:30As I arrived at the gate today, and I was mentioning this before when we went for a drive,

31:33as I arrived at the gate, by that point, I thought to myself, look,

31:37if this car isn't phenomenal out on the track here, this is going to be one of the biggest

31:42fails in BMW M history, because it just really irritated me around town, the way that it drove.

31:47And I just wanted it to be noisy.

31:49After this, after probably destroying half the tread on the tyres, I mean, this is one

31:54of the most ballistic cars I've ever driven.

31:56And, you know, you read all the press about how heavy it is, how it's slower than the last

32:01generation.

32:01But I have not driven a quicker car around here, and despite its mass, it just doesn't

32:07feel that heavy behind the wheel, and I just cannot fathom how they've been able to achieve

32:11that.

32:11It is just something else.

32:13It is otherworldly.

32:14So, should you buy this or a previous generation car?

32:17Look, it's a hard thing, because if you're driving this as a daily, it really does annoy

32:21me that you can't just have it on all the time.

32:24If you're willing to compromise by setting up an M mode for your daily driving so you can

32:27hear it and enjoy it, then it kind of fixes that problem.

32:30I think they also need to make the exhaust louder.

32:33It just, it doesn't sound anywhere near as loud as it is.

32:35So, hopefully there's like an M Performance exhaust that they will have available or is

32:39available now, but that's kind of all that it needs.

32:42The rest of the car, the tech, the size of it, the look of it, tick, tick, tick, it is

32:47all 100% there.

32:48So, I'm really curious to see what BMW M is going to do in terms of a competition version

32:52or a CS version.

32:53In this instance, this is kind of one time where emissions laws and plug-in hybrids and all

32:58the emissions controls have actually created what is one of the most epic cars on the road.

33:03So, anyway, there it is.

33:05Some positives, some negatives.

33:06Let me know what you reckon in the comments section below.

33:08Are you going to buy this?

33:09Are you going to buy a previous generation?

33:11Are you looking at something else altogether?

33:12Do you care that it's a plug-in hybrid?

33:14You can drive like 60 or 70 Ks with a full battery and then you can just do what you need

33:18to do without having to switch the engine on.

33:20Maybe that's what some people want as well.

33:21But let me know in the comments section below.

33:23What do you think of it?

33:23Have you driven it?

33:24Let me know your thoughts.

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