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Review: Automobile First Drive M550i
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As an E39 M5 owner, its funny to think that once 400hp in a sedan was absurd and bordering on lunacy. Now, nearly 460hp is available for non-M models. I know we are mostly all fans of old, but out of the box power is nuts nowadays and you can't beat numbers like that.
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Its also kind of ironic to me that will all the light weight materials that are available at our finger tips for almost affordable pricing, the cars just continue to get larger and heavier. Like think if we could make an E36 touring out of materials that are available today. |
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There is a perfect light weight car with amazing engineering = BRZ/86
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The earlier gen sedans and coupes' - I do not believe can be reproduced. A poster mentioned the Subaru BRZ. It is a nice driving car for the road course - but it would never swim as a luxury car in any way. It is also severely under powered - as is the Miata. These cars exist and if they were in top demand more would be made across all manufacturers. Today's market is much more luxury focused and many prefer to buy purpose built cars for their track work. The extra weight makes a smoother ride to answer an earlier question. Reviewers are now directly stating even the new E63S would not and should not be brought to the track (which I agree with). I don't see this trend reversing. The majority of consumers seem to want luxury and straight line speed - pretty much in that order. |
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Even 530i is more then adequate for daily needs that 550i is terrific and I wouldn't mind driving it on my daily basis .
It's insane considering 550i is faster than F10 M5 .The latter was just the car that was replaced by ,not a car decades ago
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Lets compare the S62 to the S63tu and then see the difference. Plus 0-60 in 3.9 compared to 5.5 in 'optimal conditions'.
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Yeah its crazy. I have everything set aside and was dead set on the new m5 whenever it comes out, but the new m550i is now so impressive that i really have some hard thinking to do... especially since my new daily commute is a traffic-filled 3 mile trip to and from the train station.
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