I am also more impressed by the ultra heavy SUV doing so well. Not a huge fan of the new M5 in terms of performance or styling because simply it does not bring anything brave/new in the styling compared to the old M5 or a regular F10 and the technology is almost identical to X5/X6 Ms which are out there since 2 years. I am hoping BMW is reserving something more distinctive for the M6 if not M6 Grand Coupe.
For people who thinks these numbers are uber impressive look what the relatively modest 1M did in the hands of Auto Zeitung:
Base Price in Germany at the time (May 2011) of test: 50,500 EUR
Test weight was 1522kg (factory:1495kg);
0-100km/h: 4.5 sec.
0-160km/h: 9.8 sec.
0-200km/h: 16,3 sec.
Braking 100-0 km/h cold/warm: 35.2 m/33.7m.
Slalom 18m: 68.1 km/h
Auto Zeitung lap time: 1:39.4 s.
Nothing really "wrong" with the M5 just imo with that price tag, heavy technical artillery and all the power on tap, I would expect it doing better than that. I really believe that "better" is intentionally reserved for the Gran Coupe
