новая m5 в топ гире

It's chuffing excellent. There you go Top Gear-heads, an instant, internet-friendly verdict on the new BMW M5. Go spread the news far and wide. Of course there's more to it than that, so let's expound a bit. This is BMW's most powerful production car ever, a 552bhp business express with all manner of trick bits hidden away - including, for the first time in any M5, a pair of turbos. This has been a bone of contention for the purists and you can understand why. A forced induction engine doesn't - indeed can't - respond as purely, accurately and immediately as a naturally aspirated one. But BMW has gone to great lengths to make this twin turbo 4.4-litre the best it can be. And the best it can be is really quite something. It develops 501lb ft of torque all the way from 1500-5750rpm, which means that after a fractional delay when you put the hammer down it really doesn't matter what gear you're in, what revs you're at, or how big that overtaking gap is. The M5 will punch right through it. At

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