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Notes and details from seeing F90 M5 live at BMW M Discovery Room event in Belgium
Featured on BIMMERPOST.com Hundreds of BMW M cars attended the event. Pump & stance: DJ playing dance music, speeches, dancers, meet 'n greet with an actor and a DJ, M cars doing donuts in a controlled environment (filmed with a drone), food and drinks, present bags, etc. Yeah, we were spoiled by BMW M. As a bonus, BMW M had sent over a blue F90 M5 from Garching. It was on full display in a well-lit "discovery room". Prior to accessing the room, visitors were required to put their smartphones into a pouch. Security closely supervised that no-one took pictures inside that room. Of course we respected that. Visitors were allowed a lot of freedom: you could open the bonnet, open the boot, sit inside the car (front and rear seats), toy with the iDrive, touch the car, etc. No engine sound though. No VIN on the windscreen visible (black blank). However, as visitors were allowed to take a look under the hood, I checked the VIN stamped inside the engine bay as soon as the hood was opened by someone, and memorized it: WBSJF01010G499957. When you run that VIN through a BMW Decoder, you get the specs shown below. What BMW M officially said during the event about the F90 M5:
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The 'discovery room' was surrounded by black curtains. The ceiling was some sort of black veil. However, once you walked upstairs inside the warehouse (where the demonstration of M cars doing donuts had taken place), you could look down onto the discovery room, vaguely noticing the shape of the F90 M5 through the black ceiling veil because of the lighting spots. Almost impossible to decently photograph in the dark, slightly peeking 'through' the black veil ceiling. Gave it a humble try though (see below). View from the upper floor when looking down onto the "discovery room" (vaguely showing the car through the black veil ceiling): EDIT 1: Couple more photos posted by GregD below: EDIT 2: the CAD renders that surfaced in October 2016 (source: see here) have a pretty striking similarity to what I recall having witnessed (though - alike several renders - the M2/M235i style side mirrors are inaccurate - the car on display featured the modern M design cue of the 'upper stubby/stalk'; those looked more robust, less elegant, than previous M side mirror designs):
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As indicated: 275/35 20" front and 295/35 20" rear was indicated on the PS4S of the F90 M5 on display.
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Damn, THANK YOU for that post.
Nice to see the Ceramic embellishers. I checked a few other VINs. They will offer a few nice things with this car: 1MD M Carbon Engine Cover 4GQ M Seat Belts 1MA M Sports Exhaust System |
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Great post!
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Hi - and thank you for posting all of this information. You were very fortunate to attend such a great event and get a preview of an unreleased product.
Can you clarify whether these are identical to the lights available on the G30? I ask because M-specific lights would be a new feature and one that I would not expect given the limited value they would provide vs. just borrowing the series part. Yes, the M4 GTS (and soon the M4 CS) feature unique OLED lights, but these are limited models, and the unique lights are something of a special case. M Division offering M specific lights - especially both front and rear - for all M5 would be a very unexpected move. |
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Nice work!!!
Man you should look into a career with MI6! Haha! Excellent info! Interesting to hear your description of the rear bumper with the vertical reflectors and the design of the side grilles. Now to just wait for the official unveiling. I will ask in your estimation how close was the actual car to the leaked CAD images from a little while ago?
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This is probably Marina Bay, but it is impossible to know for sure. Also, this could be pre-clear coat, or even missing other base coats, potentially, if it is a multi-layer paint (which I admittedly have no idea one way or the other). |
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I bet some photos will get leaked of the car just like the F10 was leaked....
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Yes, KW's. BMW has said the new M5 will have 600 PS, that's about 590 SAE HP. BMW also has said the car will have over 700 Nm of tq. So that's around 516 ft/lbs.
Great write up Artemis
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