and the steering wheel. Burr walnut wood trim exemplifies the era in which this car was built. The BMW E39 M5 is powered by a thumping naturally-aspirated V8 under the hood, displacing 4.9 liters ...

The big 18-inch wheels wear meaty ... 369 lb-ft of torque. The E39 was also the first M5 with variable valve timing and a six ...

They clocked the special lattice-pattern alloy wheels ... The E39 was the best-selling M5 up to this point, with over 20,000 built. It was also the first M5 to be produced on the regular BMW ...

BMW wants the new 2018 600hp M5 to be a return to form – so has given it four-wheel drive for the first time. Does the ...

which came along long before the first M5 in 1984. Could BMW be planning on returning to this nomenclature for its first diesel, all-wheel-drive performance sedan? We'll have to wait and see.