Best review person for the job.

Good review but the Bang & Olfuson system is a must. It sounds amazing

I've seen this car and person and YES it looks better in real life. Great looking machine inside and out, not to mention rare

yo there is odd sound frequency that hurt my ear, not sure if anyone can hear it.

Long live Brian Cooley! This is the BEST car show on the web! He can do Topgear USA by himself,

Wow this man is one of the best doing car reviews! I love the way he explain things... he make u understand everything

I still like the E60 M5's styling and engine sound :P

Love when Brian tells it like it is.

Fast forward a few years later .. the F10 M5 is a bargain purchase saloon rocket ship. A clean, well maintained one can be had for just north of 39k.

M5 + Brian Cooley = life is good

only reason i still watch cnet

GET THIS MAN ON TOP GEAR U.S. - EXCELLENT PRESENTATION !!!

I had to replay it when he said it had a manual version to be sure. Thank you BMW for still being cool.

Another great review, Thanks Brian for the great work always appreciated. Cooley is the most exciting car reviewer hands down.

The clips showing the M5 driving have a very high pitched annoying noise attached. Please like this so they know.

Full torque @ 1800 rpm @ 502lb·ft and 23 mpg w/ 560hp ... "Kept it kinda old school". Guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

The tech on this car is amazing...drooling

LEDs blink at a rate that is indiscernable to the naked eye due somewhat to persistence of vision. But since camera's have fixed frame rates it might capture the LED when it is off or on since the frame rate and LED frequency are not in sync.

THAT IS THE FREQUENCY OF THE LIGHTS AND THE CAMERA CANT KEEP UP.

What a coincidence, this M5 is exactly the color I'd want, inside and out, if i were to buy one myself. It may be about 95k, but it's probably one of the best cars you can buy for 95k.

I like this guy's reviews. Good especially for CNET

Cooley is a minor US treasure.

Thats your preference. Panamera is a car thats built on a great platform first of all and has the nicest interiors as well as refinement. Panamera is practical as well. You can carry 4 large adults in comfort/luxury but your driving a car that is well capable of most sport cars that are way smaller in its class that don't offer as much.

I like the way the older versions look IMHO

Manual shifting is more prone to higher RPMs. Automatics tend to seek higher gears and go for lower RPMs, ergo better mileage.

SO ORIGINAL! WOW TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!

Most A/T get better MPG ratings now. And not just the advanced DCT ones either. The simple A/T in a Subaru BRZ gets better MPG than the M/T counterpart.

Brian please more car reviews,i keep logging everyday waiting for the next car review to apear

The ///M5 is a badass BMW. I like almost alll of them. My favorite M5 is the E39 M5. Great vid!

I agree....I have a E38 M sport and it's something about the normally aspirated power of the E39 M5. The pure essential hardcore saloons that no matter how the M5 continues to evolve, it will never be what it use to be....RAW, PURE, and CLASSIC!! I like the new one, but it's way too much tech stuff going on....hail to the normally aspirated BEEMERS and M cars of yester year!!!

E39 hands down, i know the new M% has a boat load of horsepower, but it just something special about the e39 M%. I think it's the best M5 ever built.

The turbos are still twin scroll, theres just two of them. Wonder if that night vision detects and calls out deers and stuff, would be useful here.

Love the technology.

brian...when i first watched your reviewd, i loathed them, now they are among my favorites

Damn 2013 all that thats pretty cool

the m5 came out in the 1990s. There is more than one edition of the M5... currently, the F10.

If you don't understand it don't confuse it with me being against any electronic nannies or adjustments in their cars, I'm not. I am however against making everything adjustable and offering 5 modes for every function of the car. Ferrari does it the simplest, surprisingly. Have a few settings for the nannies on a switch not in the car's computer where you need to find it, and have a a two mode toggle switch for the damping. Simple and easy. The more complexity, the less put together it is.

the same with all the companies. Just get an adapter... but BMW also has bluethooth audio.

MONEY CAN BRING HAPPYNESS

A little surprised he didn't even mention the "synthetic engine sound" thing that some people have criticized the M5 for, but a great review nevertheless.

ON MY WAY BY PARTY GHOST!!! MY FAVORITE SONG AND MY FAVORITE CAR!!!

Everytime Mr. Cooley spoke, the audio track would emit a high frequency. This doesn't matter for the older viewers, but it kept me from finishing the video.

am i the only one that thinks the previous 5 series is better looking that the current one

I dont like how the nose of the new BMW's sticks out nowadays, on the older models it used to have a slight lean back or straight. a bit dissapointed , but still

Fully of tech

Tesla's control center is doing to conventional car instrument panels, what iphone did to Blackberry. It's just a "game changer".

I got to say, after test driving a new M5 , i still like the e39 M5 the best.

Bmw is the shit . I own a 2008 528i and personally like that body style then this one. none the less i love this.

I don't like how much new technology is in new cars. Why can't we just keep it simple with the radio and navigation...?

I can't see a driver choosing a manual gearbox being able to keep the revs down. It's just not possible. A manual is just too much fun.

Yeah but bmws usually have a custom holder for the iPhone if you see Cooley's other bimmer videos like the 3-series so even with the adapter it still wouldn't fit unfortunately. :/

I LOVE BMW!!! I HAVE THE X5 2009 4.8 AND THIS CAR I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE AS WELL BUT IT WON'T HAPPEN FOR NOW:(

LOL!!!! the new M5 AKA the skull breaker, I really loved the way you deliver & present your review Brian...

future technology for today

Anyone know there aren't any new episodes of CNET On Cars anymore?? 😢

Im pretty sure the new iPhone has an adapter so u can use it with older connectors

...and didn't Apple recently announce that the retro-fit adapter will be available only through Apple and Apple exclusively?

I think BMW made the car to be driven by automotive engineers. Gotta love the tech.

just bought a manual one for 90,000... It's one hell of a car

Why do i hear squealing during the video at some parts?

I understand where you're coming from I am also a huge BMW fan... the V10 was great.. but in the end, BMW had to re-do it from the ground up because of emission standards and such. I love the E60/E63 V10's, but I wouldn't own one personally. Drank oil like mad, (all M cars do), the gas tank was too small, the fuel consumption was bad as well. In the words of toyota, "you have to keep moving forward" lol

Cooley is King!

What a phenomenal review!!

i swear.. cars are becoming more like spaceships.

god i'll miss the high reving v10!

i love this guy ..... nice review ...

89,000....buddy you passed my budget by 83,000

Its the camera.

He meant for the last 2 years. They didn't make the M5 in the 2011 and 2012 model.

Do you think that the steering vibration might have been simply poor wheel balance? I had a similar issue until i did roadforce balancing.

i just got a bmw for my 16th birthday he is right when u go to driving school the teach u all thi sstuff then when u get in this car u are like what the hell i had to get all the packages becouse my parents did not trust me but this video heleped me understand my car becouse i told my parents i want a bmw for my b-day when i get i dont know how the hell to use it so smart of me and i was supprized that the whole iphone port worked with the iphone5 safer for me cuz i was gunna use my phone anyway

agree ".. in a car with a loud exhaust" yup, so loud and muted they have to fake it through the in-car speakers. didn't have to do that with the V10 did you BMW?

Why do the headlights appear to flicker on film?

btw the m550d got 3 turbos

Yeah even sounds like it

Superb review.

Then why do manuals typically get a lower EPA mileage rating?

Great review! I love this guy!

Nice review

Brian, how gimmicky do you think those night vision things are? I mean you already can't see very well out your windshield if you have to use your night vision. And now they make you take your sight off the road to look at the screen?

When will a new episode of CNET On Cars arrive? If it will arrive at all?

Whether you think it's smart or not, that's the reason. Automatic gearboxs upshift at lower points more consistently than human drivers with manuals. More consistent lower rpms yields better MPG. Even cooley said it.

I was really hoping it would be faster than 4.2 but for everyday drivng I have no doubt that's more than enough.

I miss Cooley's car reviews...

love this car... which it had better mpg!

right through the skull...what a dangerous hood.

"rarely does a shift it yourself get better mileage" i thought all manuals get about 2 mpg more?

M5 - any other 4-door super saloon

Brian Cooley is awesome

Looks are very relative. I personally like the M5 better than the CLS63.

14/20 HWY, wow, other reviews say it'll do 27. In full M2 mode it must be 14/20

OMG!!!!! that car is amazing

Great review as always !!!

The 7 series has had this since 2002, this is nothing new for BMW. Since the shifter is electronic it doesn't lock into different positions so theres no real point in putting it into park and then turning the engine off. Just push engine off and have the car do it automatically.

If that's the case then how are they moving thousands of these cars off the lots every year? It's not like they're all being stolen.

"Rarely does a shift it yourself get better mileage"? I think most of the time a manual gets better mileage, not rarely.

was this filmed with a camera phone?

That's not a very smart argument. Manual shifting can seek higher gears and go for lower RPMs too.... if the driver chooses to do so. That's why it's called "manual".

Looks like your car needed wheel alignment. Did you guys to try that? Someone must have been drifting that car.

I"D GET THE MANUAL DAMNIT! MUAHAHAH!