Only a handful of days are left until August 21, the date chosen by BMW to take the digital wraps off the F90-generation M5. And accordingly, the teasing game went into overdrive with the latest teaser for the year’s most anticipated super sedan.
Scheduled to make its public debut at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, the all-new M5 has the weight of the world on its shoulders, chiefly because the expectations are high from both the enthusiast crowd and the motoring media. There’s also the matter known as E63 S 4Matic+, the Mercedes-AMG the 2018 BMW M5 has to take on in future comparison tests.
Based on the willingness of the car to pull massive power slides in the desert, the latest teaser for the M5 spells out what the Bavarian interloper is all about. For a brief moment, the clip depicts a tell-tale design detail for an M car, and that would be the carbon fiber roof. Described as “an over achiever on the loose,” the M5 prides itself on M xDrive for superior handling.
An all-wheel-drive system designed with sporty driving in mind, M xDrive has been engineered to send all the engine’s get-up-and-go to the rear axle if the driver feels brave enough to handle the 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 fury as such. And speaking of the re-engineered S63B44T0, the engine is expected to develop an estimated 608 PS (600 horsepower) and 750 Nm (553 pound-feet). Too much, too little, only the driver can decide what's what.
For reasons that weren’t made public by BMW or the M skunkworks, the dual-clutch transmission of the F10 M5 is gone. In its place, the Bavarian automaker took the decision to use the torque converter-based ZF 8HP, though the tranny is tuned to shift faster than the unit in lesser 5er models.
On that note, fingers crossed BMW M has a winner on its hands.
Based on the willingness of the car to pull massive power slides in the desert, the latest teaser for the M5 spells out what the Bavarian interloper is all about. For a brief moment, the clip depicts a tell-tale design detail for an M car, and that would be the carbon fiber roof. Described as “an over achiever on the loose,” the M5 prides itself on M xDrive for superior handling.
An all-wheel-drive system designed with sporty driving in mind, M xDrive has been engineered to send all the engine’s get-up-and-go to the rear axle if the driver feels brave enough to handle the 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8 fury as such. And speaking of the re-engineered S63B44T0, the engine is expected to develop an estimated 608 PS (600 horsepower) and 750 Nm (553 pound-feet). Too much, too little, only the driver can decide what's what.
For reasons that weren’t made public by BMW or the M skunkworks, the dual-clutch transmission of the F10 M5 is gone. In its place, the Bavarian automaker took the decision to use the torque converter-based ZF 8HP, though the tranny is tuned to shift faster than the unit in lesser 5er models.
On that note, fingers crossed BMW M has a winner on its hands.