Thread: sure its a BMW,, but what type?

E39's are a damn good car, definitely one of the most reliable and well thought out models that they produced. I always enjoyed servicing and working on these babies. It's rare to see a wagon, they're the pick of the litter.

hmm, OK,,
try this one,,

Originally Posted by El Duderino

E39's are a damn good car, definitely one of the most reliable and well thought out models that they produced. I always enjoyed servicing and working on these babies. It's rare to see a wagon, they're the pick of the litter.

rare huh,,

there is only ONE.

some concern over the rear axle not behaving so BMW pulled the pin,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

rare huh,,

there is only ONE.

some concern over the rear axle not behaving so BMW pulled the pin,,

There's a few more than one out there...I recall seeing two come through the workshop in Melbourne but that's about it. The UK police were using them for a while too (maybe elsewhere also?).

The wagon's got quite a lot of space in the back, so it wouldn't surprise me if people were overloading them which resulted in a few axle issues. The sedan version's a well-sorted beast though, and if I was to buy another BMW, that or an E46 would be my choice.

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Another One From the Vault: BMW E39 M5 Wagon

on Nov 1st 2009 at 10:39AM

BMW E39 M5 Touring - Click above image for hi-res gallery

It seems to be raining apocryphal BMW M cars that have been sitting in cold storage. And in a way, it has! On Thursday, we saw the mind-boggling, hyper-cool E34 M5 Convertible that BMW stashed away for twenty long years. Today's car isn't nearly as crypto (meaning we've seen pictures of it before), but in a way it's much, much cooler.

We posited that perhaps the E34 M5 is in fact the best M car of all. Well, here's the truth -- the E39 M5 is the one we want, hands down, 100%. We were just waxing poetical. E39 M5, every time over here, boss. Why? With that big fat 400 horsepower V8 and those conservative duds, the E39 is still the ultimate M sleeper. Er, that is, it would be if not for the E39 M5 Wagon.

Yes that's right, an M Wagon. Many of you who bothered to click through the E34 M5 convertible gallery noticed the M5 Wagon (or "Touring" as BMW calls the 5-door in a lame attempt to mask its wagonness) just sitting there. We were going to say something, but, you know how it is -- pics or it didn't happen. Anyhoo, the story goes that BMW wanted to build the E39 M5 Wagon but some issue with the rear axle misbehaving led them to decide that the car just wouldn't be up to M Division snuff. And the plug was pulled.

So there you have it. And now we come to the part in the story where we come fully clean and admit that the M Coupe is our actual favorite ever M car. Unless that M8 shows its face...

This one please...

I saw the phtoos of those prototypes on carscoop. very nice!

I'd like a Z8 but am about half a mill short,