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BMW M5 CS review: the most powerful M car ever built
M5 CS? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?
A lightweight version of a heavy car? I expect we’ll be seeing a lot more of this as we enter the electrical age. But yeah, the idea of the M5 CS didn’t sit easily with me. I couldn’t see the point of it, or more accurately, what BMW was trying to achieve with it. But then I drove it.
And it all made sense?
Yep, but before we get to that we need to do more backstory, because it helps frame the car. This is not a limited edition model. BMW will build all they can sell of ‘the most powerful car in the history of BMW M’. What’s more I wouldn’t be surprised if this is currently the only M5 they’re producing. BMW has previously admitted that once the Competition arrived (it was facelifted last year), no-one bought the ten grand cheaper standard M5 anymore. Stands to reason that when the CS lands, that’s the one everyone will want.
How much does it cost?
£140,780. Over £38,000 more than the M5 Competition, and the most expensive M car currently available (taking over from the £133,450 M8 Competition Convertible). Of course they’ll all be bought on tick, so the difference will be a few hundred a month and that’s far less scary to contemplate.
For the same money as a Porsche Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo you get 10bhp more and 70kg less. The former is less than promising, just a software upgrade for 626bhp and torque hasn’t risen at all from its 553lb ft base level, it’s just sustained slightly longer (from 1,800-5,950rpm). But I’ll bet that’s not the whole story. It feels riotously fast, claims to take 0.3sec out of the standard M5’s 3.3sec 0-62mph sprint - and that was a car we timed to 60mph in 2.99sec. Top speed is 189mph. Mid-range response and torque delivery makes an RS6 feel flat.
Won’t the weight savings account for the quicker acceleration?
Possibly. But it’s still an 1,825kg car… In fact that’s not actually that heavy these days is it? Especially for a big four door saloon with four wheel-drive and a twin-turbo 4.4-litre V8. It’s only 100kg heavier than the new BMW M3 - a car with two fewer cylinders that doesn’t have front driveshafts - and we’ll be coming on to talk about that, well, now actually.
The M5 CS borrows some kit from the new M3 in its weight saving quest, most notably the questionable front seats. They are brilliantly comfortable and supportive, perhaps some of the very best chairs fitted to any car today. Provided you don’t left foot brake. If you do your left leg has to negotiate the carbon... podium between your thighs.
The seats must save a dozen kilos or more, and because they’re more slimline (not to mention see-through) they also pay dividends for those in the back: more legroom and a greater sense of space. I used to run an M5 and one of my gripes was that the front chairs were so bulky and dominant they made the rear feel small and dark.
But that’s not why the kids will love being in the back, is it?
No, the front seat design has been copied, so you have a pair of proper buckets back there as well. The last car that catered for rear seat passengers as well was the Ford Mach-E 1400. Got a third child? Tough.
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