BMW M5's Project Leader Says V8 has Few Things in Common with X5M and X6M Engine

Like its predecessors, the new 2013 BMW M5, which received its public debut at the 64th Frankfurt Motor Show, is based on the regular 5-Series sedan with some subtle exterior modifications but a whole lot of changes under the skin.

Now, some may think that BMW's M Gmbh performance division simply took a 5-Series sedan, beefed it up a bit and shoehorned the twin-turbo V8 found in the X5 M and X6 M SUVs under it's hood. However, Maximillian Ahme, the man that led the M5's development team, says that's not the case.

In an interview with the BMW M magazine, Ahme shed some light on the development and the unique features of the latest M5 super saloon.

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This is What the Fastest Christmas Card in the World Looks Like [Video]

What defines the fastest Christmas car in the world? Well, the answer depends on whom you ask. For BMW's M division, it's a card that was designed in a speeding 2012 M5 sports sedan.

The Bavarian firm's performance arm asked Swiss illustrator Gavin Patterson to draw a cliché Christmas motif but with a twist (and a few turns, for that matter…); he had to do it in the passenger seat of an M5 while precision driver Urs Inauen flogged the car around the Circuit de l'Anneau Du Rhin.

To find the outcome, follow the jump and watch the video.

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Watch a 2012 BMW M5 Kick Up Some Sand at the Beach

As you can see in the video below, someone apparently forgot to inform the seagulls sunbathing under the sun at Pendine Sands beach on the shores of Carmarthen Bay on the south coast of Wales, that BMW's UK arm had some very special plans for the day…

More specifically, the Bavarian carmaker wanted to show its support to the London 2012 Performance Team athletes, of whom it is an official sponsor, in its own unique way – read placing precision driver Wolfgang Weber behind the wheel of the new twin-turbocharged M5 saloon and letting him have some drifting fun.

You can find the video right after the jump.

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BMW M5 Review Pictures Wallpaper

The BMW M5 is a aerial achievement adaptation of the BMW 5-Series controlling car congenital by the Motorsport analysis of BMW. Aboriginal alien at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1984, the aboriginal apotheosis of the M5 was hand-built utilizing the 535i anatomy and a adapted BMW M1 engine, actuality the fastest assembly auto in the apple at the time of its introduction. Subsequent iterations of the M5 accept been congenital from anniversary bearing of the 5-Series platform, including the E34, E39, E60/E61, and best recently, F10, with the aboriginal orders to be delivered in backward 2011.

Due to the constancy of its nameplate and acknowledged position at the top of BMW's midsize lineup, the M5 charcoal one of the best accepted action sedans, admitting antagonism from Mercedes-AMG and Audi quattro GmbH.

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