Another One From the Vault: BMW E39 M5 Wagon
BMW E39 M5 Touring - Click above image for hi-res gallery
It seems to be raining apocryphal BMW M cars that have been sitting in cold storage. And in a way, it has! On Thursday, we saw the mind-boggling, hyper-cool E34 M5 Convertible that BMW stashed away for twenty long years. Today's car isn't nearly as crypto (meaning we've seen pictures of it before), but in a way it's much, much cooler.
We posited that perhaps the E34 M5 is in fact the best M car of all. Well, here's the truth -- the E39 M5 is the one we want, hands down, 100%. We were just waxing poetical. E39 M5, every time over here, boss. Why? With that big fat 400 horsepower V8 and those conservative duds, the E39 is still the ultimate M sleeper. Er, that is, it would be if not for the E39 M5 Wagon.
Yes that's right, an M Wagon. Many of you who bothered to click through the E34 M5 convertible gallery noticed the M5 Wagon (or "Touring" as BMW calls the 5-door in a lame attempt to mask its wagonness) just sitting there. We were going to say something, but, you know how it is -- pics or it didn't happen. Anyhoo, the story goes that BMW wanted to build the E39 M5 Wagon but some issue with the rear axle misbehaving led them to decide that the car just wouldn't be up to M Division snuff. And the plug was pulled.
So there you have it. And now we come to the part in the story where we come fully clean and admit that the M Coupe is our actual favorite ever M car. Unless that M8 shows its face...
Gallery: BMW E39 M5 Wagon
[Source: BMW Blog]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
The Joker 10:45AM (11/01/2009)
I'm in love!
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Visnick 10:51AM (11/01/2009)
Wish they would bring the current M5 wagon to the states (and yes the E39 is much better looking)
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Hike15 11:06AM (11/01/2009)
that's a dream car only an enthusiasts could love. and i love it!
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Art 11:10AM (11/01/2009)
now this is an awesome car.
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JDM Life 11:11AM (11/01/2009)
Hello wagon where have you been?
This model M5 is old...didnt even know they made a wagon to it....
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Brian 11:32AM (11/01/2009)
The Germans need to make more wagons like this and drop their pousermobile crossovers.
Anything a crossover can do, a wagon can do and do better.
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zamafir 11:34AM (11/01/2009)
they do. audi does. bmw does. mercedes does. they just don't bring them over because all of us who clamor for them don't purchase them.
xor.be 11:35AM (11/01/2009)
Could somebody tell me what that little screen would show.
I don't believe i saw it in the 5 series of that era
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Arkz 12:19PM (11/01/2009)
Radio/TV, among other things. As far as I know, it wasn't a sat-nav (correct me if I'm wrong).
Jared 12:19PM (11/01/2009)
Probably an LCD that displayed all the radio and phone settings and what not. Sorta like non navigation cars now adays that have the big screens built into them.
ChrisHS2000 12:29PM (11/01/2009)
No guys, thats a sat nav system.
LoneWolf 12:34PM (11/01/2009)
Coolest M ever.
That was the best bodystyle, the front with those headlights just looks classy and aggressive.
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The FedEx Man 2:00PM (11/01/2009)
The E39 5-series were by far the best looking BMWs ever in my opinion. Absolute perfection.
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Berto 2:08PM (11/01/2009)
WOWZERS!!!!!!! :D
Seeing this turns me into a little kid
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ambientFLIER 2:27PM (11/01/2009)
I don't understand the big deal about wagons. Are they considered cool just like those awful looking econoboxes from Japan, like the Cube and the xB, just because they are rare and we can't have them? Who would want a heavier M5 that looked like something my mom drives?
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Pat 3:32PM (11/01/2009)
No, you see, that's exactly it. It's a car that hauls more ass than almost everything on the road AND it looks like something your mom drives. If you can't appreciate that, then I don't know what to say.
PumaGTO 3:42PM (11/01/2009)
Are you and autobloggreen reader that got lost?
You completly don´t get it, do you? super wagons are so cool because they´re cars that can perform almost as good as sport cars and still be inconspicuous and perfecly every-day usable. Besides, it´s the kind of car that only other enthusiasts recognises and admires so you get lots of thumbs up once you´re in the proper enviroment.
ambientFLIER 5:31PM (11/01/2009)
What does it have to do with being green? I'd rather have a sedan M5.
Dan 8:26PM (11/01/2009)
The big deal about wagons is by and large they aren't sold here. So albino europhiles with 4 day beards wax poetic about them as a way of expressing their non-conformity. Just like hatchbacks.
Also just like hatchbacks, they sell as bottom feeder entry cars but for all the internet enthusiasm nobody buys them past $20,000 or so.
Kaveh 2:36PM (11/01/2009)
That would be a fun car, road trips would be epic.
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