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Originally Posted by wrsbmw
Agreed, the M3 was clearly in transport mode and the redline limiter was set to 4500 RPM. My car came from the port like this when I bought it at the dealer. I didn't order it but it had 2 miles on it from it being put on and taken off the transport ship. No big deal, no one is going to harm it in 2 miles. The bigger risk is buying one with 40-50 miles on it that has been hot rodded with test drives. The salesguy at my local BMW place told me that some idiot took am M5 to 135 on Parmer with him in it during a test drive. I am sure that redlined it, more than once in fact.
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Well I have to say that to understand how much better than a 550i the M5 is, you do have to take it to 135. The M5 can corner at 100mph+ whereas the regular 5s don't like that so much.
Dealers should just have demonstrator models of every car for this purpose. That way you don't have to abuse a car in break-in period that someone might buy.