Only 1,000 M4 CSLs were made by the Bavarian giant, 250 of which reached the U.S. Like the M4 CSL, there was much to love ...
You figure after two different tuners had squeezed the M5's 500 HP V10 into an E92 BMW 3-series ... would be the previous generation E46 M3. A CSL no less. Performing the swap is a feat unto ...
Another turbocharged BMW M performance car has hit the road ... Bring that drivetrain loss estimate down to a more conservative 10%, and the M5 is still producing somewhere in the realm of ...
Stiffer engine mounts have also been used that has allowed BMW M to use the CSL’s more aggressive gearbox mapping. The xDrive system is carried over from the M3, with the ability to de-couple ...
And with the E61 M5 Touring, that’s what BMW delivered. If the engine choice seems faintly ludicrous in this era of down-sizing and multiple turbos, back in the early 'noughties it obviously ...
BMW is always happy to extract a little bit more gumption out of its M cars, just look at the latest 30th anniversary M5 or even the earlier CSL variants of the M3 for proof. Now, It looks like we ...