There's a new BMW M5 wagon in the world - at last. No better time to revisit the original...
Timing is everything. When BMW launched an M5 Touring to the world in 1992, the first time the badge had been on an estate car, it must have seemed like quite the coup. Motorsport cachet with practicality, if slightly at odds with each other, was unheard of back then, and surely likely to tempt a few potential buyers.
The presence of the dynamic duo in showrooms brings the E34, for so long an outlier, into sharper focus. Firstly, as a starting point, but also for the sort of coolness that comes from being a rediscovered '90s icon. Hence the reason for BMW bringing it along, alongside a host of other historic M5s, to drive with the launch of the new G90/G99. And for PH pinching the keys.
Of course, it doesn’t take very long on the road to acknowledge that there undoubtedly is some BMW Motorsport in the M5, and it’s under the bonnet. If inevitably a little muted, there is very little to rival the experience of an S-designated, individual throttle-bodied, BMW straight-six. It’s just so urgent and so willing, snapping forward at the merest throttle opening while half a dozen greedy cylinders gorge on all the air and fuel they can force in. The 3.
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