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BMW M5: The Complete Story
James Taylor
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Description for BMW M5: The Complete Story
Hardback. Charting the development of the M5 across five generations, this volume is packed with the facts and details that make the M5 legend come alive. Num Pages: 176 pages, 211 colour photographs. BIC Classification: WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 268 x 16. Weight in Grams: 880.
BMW's M5 was a simple concept: a production 5 Series saloon re-developed for high performance by the Motorsport division. The M5 was the car that really initiated the legend of the M-cars from BMW. The letter M has been applied to a high-performance BMW as early as 1978, but that year's M1 was an exotic supercar. It had the right image, but the M1 was never going to bring in major profits. The M5 was much simpler in concept. It was and remains a production 5 Series saloon, redeveloped for ultra-high performance. Manufacturing costs ... Read more
BMW's M5 was a simple concept: a production 5 Series saloon re-developed for high performance by the Motorsport division. The M5 was the car that really initiated the legend of the M-cars from BMW. The letter M has been applied to a high-performance BMW as early as 1978, but that year's M1 was an exotic supercar. It had the right image, but the M1 was never going to bring in major profits. The M5 was much simpler in concept. It was and remains a production 5 Series saloon, redeveloped for ultra-high performance. Manufacturing costs ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Crowood Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Ramsbury, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785000454
SKU
V9781785000454
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About James Taylor
James Taylor has been writing professionally about cars since the late 1970s, and his interests embrace a wide range of older cars of all makes and nationalities, as well as classic buses, lorries and military vehicles. However, he also enjoys keeping abreast of current special-interest models such as the BMW M5 because, he believes, today's interesting cars are tomorrow's ... Read more
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