Everybody welcome back, it's Mark with Exotic Car Play Place. I'm over here at
Edmonton BMW. I just want to thank the fine folks over here for letting me have
a quick look at the new 2018 BMW m5. Now we all know the m5 has been special,
way back several decades ago when they had the original m1 supercar, they had to
discontinue it because of racing rules, and so they had to do something with the
engine. Well that started this whole idea of the wolf in sheep's clothing.
Queue the creation of the BMW m5. That has since then been a constant evolution to
the point where we're at here today and I want to just share with you some of
the specifications of this car. It is just amazing. We've been for several
drives in this machine, but here let's take a look and I'm going to talk to you
about some of the interior upgrades or performance upgrades over the last
generation cars.
Walk around you'll notice this car here, there's lots of little upgrades, things
like the side vents, you know we've got carbon fiber on the
side rockers, we've got you know, there's 19-inch wheels by standard, 20-inch
optional, otherwise it's a constant slow evolution. M5s are always
been about conservative styling even though they're still. You've got
carbon fiber splitters, you've got amazing brakes,
lots of little subtle touches that make the car classy but not overstated.
Again oversized steel brakes in this case. Now that being said, I would always
recommend if you're going to be taking your car to the track a lot or driving
it hard, I would recommend the carbon ceramic as an upgrade, but these still do
the trick for street driving here. Obviously lots of carbon fiber, got the
adaptive headlights, carbon again, a nice strong powerful front end on these cars,
they look amazing like that with the LEDs and the carbon fiber front spoilers.
Moving around, now the real magic here happens below the skin on these cars, so
under the hood here you, have the same 4.4 liter v8 twin-turbo engine that you
would typically find in the last generation. This is the F90 of course,
the F10 also had the same engine, but this car produces actually 600
horsepower and 550 foot-pounds of torque. So it's up about 50 horsepower and up
about 50 foot-pounds of torque, and that is largely due to the fact that this car
has an increased boost pressure applied to it. So this one's running about
24 psi versus the last car, the f9 or the f10 with 21 psi of boost.
Now another difference here this car here has an 8-speed ZF automatic
transmission, which makes the car extremely user-friendly around the city.
It's not a difficult car to drive, as a matter of fact the torque converter
picks up very quickly, so it does feel very sporting. It doesn't feel like a
sloppy automatic transmission, it is in fact it's very, very sporty and you're
hard-pressed to find a need for a dual clutch, which actually happened to be the
transmission in the last car as well. A 6-speed manual was also available in the
last car, that is no longer available in these cars, but again you don't generally
miss it. This car drives exceptionally well with the auto, the other thing when
you're that the big key factor in these cars now that it's been upgraded. The
first foreign M car ever other than the X cars like the x5, x6, but
the first for any M sedan or two-door car, happens to be the fact that they are
utilizing all-wheel drive. This car is although strongly rear biased, so the
majority of the power goes to the rear wheels under slip conditions. There is
still a constant output indeed from the rear wheel.
Front wheels that give you the extra four wheel drive traction that you
actually need for some poor driving conditions. Now looking inside, you'll
notice subtle touches, there's a lot of updates here, now you've got the m1, m2
flashy red buttons, which allow you to preset hundreds of different
combinations of performance settings. Of course that's all configurable through
your M Drive system, as well as the buttons on the dash, you can adjust your
damper settings, steering settings, throttle inputs, everything's fully
adjustable on this car, and there are dozens, hundreds of actual combinations
of performance settings for this car. Now if you look at the styling on the side
of the exterior here, it's a little more aggressive than even the F90. More
proportionate with the e60 in terms of size overall. Look at the humps on this
car, beautiful, absolute beautiful finishing lots of carbon fiber like the
lip on the back trunk lid, beautiful as well, as the side skirts, lots of carbon
fiber to show its quality, and then we talked about mirrors and some of the
other accents that indicate this is a special car. Look at the rear spoilers,
we've got carbon fiber, some pretty slick exhaust, and the spoilers, and the extra
accents on the rear bumper show real attention to detail. Look at the M
buttons, new for this year, how about the rest the interior. Very, very high quality,
overall lots of leather, you've got your stitching for M cars, and
then the interior, of course we've got the 8-speed ZF automatic transmission,
only this year, and then we talked about the overall interiors. High, high quality
with lossy finishing and the theme lighting. Then we have the M teamed
seatbelts as well wrapped right next to the high quality leather seats, so in
short a quick comparison between the F 90 and the F10, this car is dramatically
better in virtually every way, it's more refined, it drives better, it's quieter
when you want it to be, but it does actually have more of a burble on the
exhaust when you want it to be, so when you're in the sport mode
it does allow you to get more exhaust noise out of it as well. The power is
absolutely immense,
very, very quick. There's nothing from the M cars in the past even compared
remotely to the performance driving this car. Hard under the maximum sporting
settings reveals an absolute animal of a sports car. So this is not your average
garden-variety sporty vehicle or family sedan, as some people like to kind of
call it, this in fact is absolutely an animal and it's a wolf in sheep's
clothing. So everybody I hope you enjoyed that quick review, basically summarizing
some of the key differences between the new f90, and the previous generation f10.
So thanks again everybody Mark here again, checking out with Exotic Car Play
Place. Thanks again, we'll talk to you soon.
Bye-bye.