Is it me or does this look a fake ?

Does look weird.

The reason why it looks weird to me is that the rubber bumper overrider strips and the door protection strips have been painted body colour.
 
Other than the bumper and door strips done in body colour and possibly the gear knob, it's a perfectly standard pre facelift M5. Wheels and steering wheel are normal.
 
The wheels most certainly are not normal :) As stated above, they're M3 CSL (possibly replicas? Doubt they'd fit the e39).

Painted rub strips is also not right for an M5 (or an e39 Sport).

The steering wheel is correct for a pre-facelift.

Edit: And is it me, or is one of the leather panels on the bolster silverstone in colour while the rest are black? Possibly a seat repair using a bolster from another car (why you'd choose one that doesn't match is beyond me when plain black must be the easiest colour to find).
 
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It's a genuine M5 - it's just not a very nice one.

Somebody has colour coded the rubbing strips which is the biggest visual difference - no M5 had colour coded strips as standard. It's also running on fake CSL wheels, too.

Shame the same amount of effort didn't go into fixing those awful front headlights.
 
Also not giving it a hoover before taking the pics and wiping down the mucky footwell.

I just don't get that.
 
mrk said:
Also not giving it a hoover before taking the pics and wiping down the mucky footwell.

I just don't get that.
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Me neither. I tend to ignore adverts where the car is a filthy mess because it gives you an insight into the general attitude of the seller.
 
[TW]Fox;23375172 said:
Me neither. I tend to ignore adverts where the car is a filthy mess because it gives you an insight into the general attitude of the seller.
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Exactly. Shouts out "I'm a stingy swine when it comes to my car".
 
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