E34 M5 Convertible, revealed after being secret for 20 years

amgthis · 10-29-2009, 10:52 PM

Incredible, how do they keep such secrets from us?! This is making my imagination run wild!!

veightkiller · 10-29-2009, 10:53 PM

i rarely see this cars down here, classic.

Davin · 10-29-2009, 11:18 PM

i guess it might have worked

VBMW · 10-29-2009, 11:23 PM

woow that looks really nice, No problem bring it our Now and I'll buy one..LOL..

x5mad · 10-30-2009, 12:24 AM

There are plenty of cars BMW built which never made it into production.

One such car I heard of in BMW Car (UK Mag) was a 7 sereies with a V16 !

1º · 10-30-2009, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by x5mad

There are plenty of cars BMW built which never made it into production.

One such car I heard of in BMW Car (UK Mag) was a 7 sereies with a V16 !

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=238880

TheUltimateDrivingManiac · 10-30-2009, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by DH2117

"BMW nixed the convertible M5 out of fear that demand for non-M5 convertibles would eat into 3 series convertible sales."

Curious, so they didn't want to sell a higher price/higher profit 5 series vert and take sales away from a lower cost 3 product? Odd reason.

+1!

It was possible to limit engine size as well, for example E34 conv can be 530i and 540i only... It's completely different league from 3er Conv!

2M · 10-30-2009, 03:00 AM

wow i want it its so sexy

Saebb · 10-30-2009, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by epiphone3

incredible!

I imagine that this fits in to the same category as the "mystical" M8 I heard of before.

As most know, the V12 engine in the 850csi was an "M-Power" engine and was in fact another variant of the V12 engine that BMW put in the McLaren F1 Roadster.

Rumour was that BMW had actually made a BMW M8 that had the McLaren spec BMW V12 under the hood (640hp) rather than the 850csi 404hp V12.

Who knows?

Well some thing to correct. Searched google and found this interesting page:

http://www.e31.de/models.html

The 850 CSi (btw 380hp, the only cars with more power were the E31 Alpina versions with 416hp) is the real M8 as the papers state. It has been developed and has been built by ///M. Unfortunately we won't have a chance to ever see the prototype of the M8 cause it has been destroyed as far as I know.

I have been to the M division in Garching once and they had a lot of special vehicles around there. For example an E38 with the whole E39 M5 drive train implemented. This car was built for Paul Rosche who didn't like the "extroverted" appearance of an E39 M5.
And several E39 M5 tourings as pictured above. Lots of the guys from the higher management have special built ups of actual cars.

BTW, do you know that BMW already tested V8 and V12 versions in the E3 and E9? Those engines already had the hp numbers of the engines later used in the E32 7series.

If only I could into there and stroll around between all those exotics.

1230vani · 10-30-2009, 05:01 AM

I heard of this story from a dude who went in the factory and saw it, I was not convinced, now I see how wrong I was.

BlackjackMulligan · 10-30-2009, 06:45 AM

wow that's gorgeous. BMW really knew how to design a car back in the day didn't they?

TheUltimateDrivingManiac · 10-30-2009, 08:56 AM

Is that E39 ///M5 Touring in the background?

Mu Mu · 10-30-2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by BLITZ

Old pics

I actually wanted to say that I saw pics of the M5 vert about two years ago...so old news here!

Imola.ZHP · 10-30-2009, 09:24 AM

They should have done it!

Hammam · 10-30-2009, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Mu Mu

I actually wanted to say that I saw pics of the M5 vert about two years ago...so old news here!

That's right. It's nothing new, except the official announcement of the M gmbh at the 25th ann.

ianbiz · 10-30-2009, 09:55 AM

That means all these years we could of had a 5er coupe too.

samuraisaiyo · 10-30-2009, 10:53 AM

E34 M5 it very nice

Frosty · 10-30-2009, 11:42 AM

awesome pics! I would love to see a M5 coupe from that era.... was the 63X out then...? Might have cut into 6 coupe sales?

~Frost

HermesRider · 10-30-2009, 12:50 PM

Absolutely gorgeous car!

So much better looking than the current M6 convertible! I would take it in a flash

windnsea00 · 10-30-2009, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by TheUltimateDrivingManiac

Is that E39 ///M5 Touring in the background?

Yes, three of them were built for head officials in BMW back in the day.

Easternedge · 10-30-2009, 05:30 PM

Tupac should have been Rockin' that in "JUICE"... Gold Mesh BBS's.. LOOLOOLOLL

Shii, I would for sure!!

thome22 · 10-30-2009, 06:37 PM

Awesome! Classic BMW.

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