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      04-12-2018, 01:30 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by Roger_M View Post
When the M550i came out, honestly, I thought to myself "what's the point of that?" - it's big and powerful and has an 'M' on the backside, but it's just absolutely not an M5.

However, it has real deep performance as well as many other strengths, whilst avoiding that street-racer uncompromising nature of the M5 itself. Great on the track but simply too big/fast for normal roads, and not as an everyday drive (IMO).

Now I totally get the 550.
It was mostly a stop gap car until M5's arrival

Or an understatement that still delivers extremely well.
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