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Dav4 · 6 Jun 2018 at 19:32

SDK^ said:
I was following a new M5 yesterday and it sounded lush

Shame about the chavvy numberplate. Is he trying to tell us he’s a bad man or something brapp brapp.

Mart2912 · 6 Jun 2018 at 21:39

Dav4 said:
Shame about the chavvy numberplate. Is he trying to tell us he’s a bad man or something brapp brapp.

Maybe he's just warning others that he's a bad driver.

Nasher · 6 Jun 2018 at 22:08

Do they come with spacers from the factory? Doesn't look like a normal offset on the red one.

mjt · 6 Jun 2018 at 22:23

Maccy said:
It comes in red now???

The car was originally white.

Sauce: https://fu-regnr.transportstyrelsen.se/extweb/

SDK^ · 6 Jun 2018 at 22:25

The red one also has non standard M5 mirrors - carbonz for the win

Blackhawk47 · 6 Jun 2018 at 22:40

SDK^ said:
The red one also has non standard M5 mirrors - carbonz for the win

Just looks like the stock m2 mirrors wrapped gloss black.

Carbon mirrors is an option (M performance bits) along with a carbon diffuser, spoiler, front air deflectors and other stuff.

SDK^ · 6 Jun 2018 at 22:42

Blackhawk47 said:
Just looks like the stock m2 mirrors wrapped gloss black.

Carbon mirrors is an option (M performance bits) along with a carbon diffuser, spoiler, front air deflectors and other stuff.

I only took a quick glance at the photo and thought it was an M5

LeMson · 6 Jun 2018 at 22:56

Good job that faux pas wasn't in the BMW thread

IAmATeaf · 7 Jun 2018 at 13:35

There’s a guy on my road with a 520d badged as an M5, Black with lime green highlighting. Only slightly believable from about half a mile away as any closer and you can hear the dag-dag as he’s more of a pootler.

Scania · 7 Jun 2018 at 16:43

IAmATeaf said:
There’s a guy on my road with a 520d badged as an M5, Black with lime green highlighting. Only slightly believable from about half a mile away as any closer and you can hear the dag-dag as he’s more of a pootler.

There’s an e60 “M5” taxi trundling around Stoke-on-Trent , it’s got all the right bits on it right down to the correct wheels , quad exhausts etc and looks the part bar the dag dag and the bloody great Taxi sign on the roof, looks absurd.

wedrum · 7 Jun 2018 at 17:25

tbf the usual tom dick or harry would not be able to tell its not an M car

Nasher · 7 Jun 2018 at 19:14

Yea until they hear it and smell the cancer coming out of the exhaust

I think most people do know that proper performance/sports cars don't come in diesel.

IAmATeaf · 7 Jun 2018 at 21:32

Most people will only recognise it as a bmw and no more. Only us petrolly geeks know a bit more beyond that.

Blackhawk47 · 7 Jun 2018 at 22:11

arfoll said:
Most people have no idea what the difference between an M240i or M2 is, and quite a few will get confused at m-sport pack cars...

Yes! I remember my mate driving a R8 GT and I heard a guy in a car park saying to him nice A5...

I think only car guys care about this sort of stuff...and really who cares what joe public thinks.

Vita · 7 Jun 2018 at 22:25

Blackhawk47 said:
I think only car guys care about this sort of stuff...and really who cares what joe public thinks.

The people who buy said cars.

dacads · 7 Jun 2018 at 22:38

Blackhawk47 said:
Yes! I remember my mate driving a R8 GT and I heard a guy in a car park saying to him nice A5...

Did you tell that guy to visit Specsavers?

nemtizz · 7 Jun 2018 at 23:44

On the other end of the spectrum, I did once see an RS6 with a TDI badge.

theone8181 · 8 Jun 2018 at 07:47

nemtizz said:
On the other end of the spectrum, I did once see an RS6 with a TDI badge.

In the vein of this thread, are you sure it wasn't a TDI with an RS6 badge

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DAIR · 8 Jun 2018 at 09:21

Didn't think this deserved it's own thread. So posting here

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/6478431/halfords-ford-focus-st-crash-claims/

Why on earth would you take a car to halfords for a service?