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Originally Posted by lemming
Well. Not sure the M5 has ever been a sports car. It embodies what M started as and just added better and better engines. M to me has always been about taking a passenger car and making it sporty —but not a sports car.
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Fully agree.
BMW basically invented the “sports sedan” while the M division made the original E28 M5 a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
A sports car to me equals vehicles equipped with only two doors.
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Originally Posted by Nick M3
There were a few small things that you could do with the E39 that radically tightened it up. None of them really solved the slopbox steering, though. If they'd sold it with a rack and pinion.
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This… the steering in the E39 540/M5 is horrendous. Let’s call a spade, a spade… it is total garbage!