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The M5 also boasts numerous technical features, including a heads up "M" display, which suitably showcases the rev counter slightly more prominently. It also carries a full GPS navigation system, and the superb interior illumination even includes the top of the gear shifter. A rather nice touch that!
The interior of the M5 is a particularly nice place to reside. However, I personally disliked the brushed aluminum look which replaces the wood trim found in the regular 5-series models. I know that several companies are using this idea nowadays in their sportier models, but I look at it this way... wood looks, and is expensive. The aluminum finish simply isn't, and to be honest, it looks like the inside of a coke can to me! Dark wood or carbon fiber I'd find acceptable, but recycled soda cans...I'm afraid not!
Apart from that minor irritation, the M5 screams class, but as my tester carried a price tag of $121,850, one might say "that it ought to"!
So does the M5 warrant such a hefty sticker price, or did someone get carried away whilst doing the calculations? Well, in my opinion, I think that they got it pretty much right! Any vehicle which can combine luxury with mind-blowing performance as well as the M5 does is worth every penny of that!
Now if I could only sweet-talk Miss Moneypenny into submitting a little extra for my auto expense account!
Fat chance of that, everyone in the company knows that she has the hots for James. That's why he gets all the cool rides!
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Incredibly quick automobile, which goes to prove that performance can be achieved without forsaking luxury!
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You could spend a lot of money, only to have someone pull up next to you in a cheaper "look-a-like"!
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Remodeled Soda cans on the dashboard. What's next, recycled cardboard headliner, sold to us as weight-saving technology?
photo:Kevin Corrigan
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