The über-sedan fights back with 560 horsepower and a brace of turbochargers.
It’s probably fair to say that the previous BMW M5 (E60) crawled a bit too far up its own posterior. That fourth generation of the archetypal sports sedan was a complicated and abstruse car, with a clumsy automated manual gearbox, a V-10 that prized horsepower over torque, and a series of driver interfaces that was only slightly easier to follow than Swedish experimental cinema. Despite its 106-hp advantage over the M5 it replaced, it was somehow less thrilling and not as visceral, and its relentless pursuit of speed, though noble, came at the expense of everyday drivability. The E60 M5 was a car that was only truly happy plowing into an autobahn fog bank at 155 mph.
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