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Love the color of that E34! I think the E39 would be the keeper for me, although the E28 would be an absolutely blast to drive!
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I was done with CarWow drag races, but I did watch this one. Pretty cool to see the evolution (and not always for the better IMO, but unavoidable). I'm partial to the E39 as I have driven them since 1999 and the M5 since 2004, but the E34 and E28 M5s also have huge appeal for me.
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Pretty recently I ran into an E28 M88/3. It was a special moment.
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One thing is still for sure, the E60 M5 still easily wins the best sounding exhaust award by a large margin...
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I’d love to be in the position (ie. have the room) to pickup an E60 M5 someday. Arguably one of the most special engines dropped into a road car outside of crazy supercar stuff.
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The F10 was quite possibly the worst BMW I have owned.
Heavy, detached, and completely unpredictable in handling. The only positive was the awesome B&O stereo with the beautiful pop up sub woofer. The E39 is still the best looking M5. The people who designed it should be lauded and enshrined on Mount Rushmore.
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Again, this is different than comparing say a G80 M3 to an E46 M3... where one is FAR lighter than the other and is meant to be the "driver involvement" car... I could see that argument far more.
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Never one to miss an opportunity to post up the only two pics I have of the E34 3.6 M5 I owned from 97-2001
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