“it’s huge, both in its dimensions and how big it feels”

£114,015 OTR/£135,058 as tested/£1,560 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: Furiously complex, huge and heavy – is the M5 headed in the right direction? DRIVER: OLLIE marriage HERE’S AN INCOMPATIBLE PAIR: BMW M5 and St

WE HAVE AN EMBARRASSMENT OF BIG, practical performance cars on the Fast Fleet at the moment. There’s ed-in-chief Gallagher’s Audi RS6, super-snapper Aston Parrott’s Alfa Stelvio Quadrifoglio and my ow

A day of science to see exactly how much power the hybrid M5 is really producing.

TIMES ARE TOUGH FOR THE AVERAGE enthusiast in 2025. Cheap hot hatches have pretty much died out, affordable sports coupes are no more and everything that’s left seems to be getting ludicrously expensi

BMW can’t be accused of failing to give its difficult pupil every chance to fit in. The six-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive M135i (later M140i) was a tough act to follow for its transverse-engined successo

THE WORLD PROBABLY DOESN’T NEED AN estate car with 543bhp, Cup 2 tyres and carbon bucket seats. Nor one with carbon body panels and a cooling package specified for hard track miles. But after driving