TESTED 11.6.21, OXFORDSHIRE ON SALE NOW
BMW M5 CS
Targeted revisions aim to make this super-saloon achieve its full potential – at a price
TESTER’S NOTE
I’ve got mixed feelings about the bucketstyle individual back seats, which mean you can’t fold the CS’s back seats down to carry a disassembled bike or similar. But my six-year-old lad absolutely loved them; so job done, BMW. MS
BMW has never made a ‘Clubsport’ version of its longlived M5 super-saloon before. This first one has a walloping 626bhp, a £140,000 price and a 0-62mph claim of 3.0sec. It’s nothing less than the most potent road car that M division has built. And yet it also feels like a turning point for the M5, rather than some exercise in limited-numbers ego massage for the chosen few. With this car, BMW has gently corrected the development course of the F90-generation M5 and addressed – rather effectively, as we’ll come on to, albeit for quite a price – the car’s various dynamic shortcomings.