Although it wasn’t the first road car to wear an M badge, the M5 is arguably the model that introduced BMW’s brand of ...

When BMW introduced the original M5 to the European motoring public in 1984, the automaker effectively established a new vehicle segment. By combining the practical and understatedly rakish E28 5 ...

The BMW M Competition recipe is now fairly well refined. Simply take an existing M-car, add a touch more power and treat the suspension to a few well-chosen tweaks aimed at sharpening the driving ...

Maybe it’s apt that the BMW M5 slipped into the world through a side door. Visitors to the 1984 Amsterdam motor show who failed to notice its debut were only experiencing what scores of drivers ...