Widely considered the best M5 manual transmission model, the E39 M5 wasn’t the most powerful, but it was the most engaging. It’s not every day that you come across such a glorious, low-mileage E39 BMW ...

Following our original post that only had three photos of the E39 540i, we discovered today that the listing has been updated with a plethora of images showing the car from every angle. See for ...

Save the manuals, right? Well, if you want a new manual transmission sport sedan in 2025, your options are very limited. If you were going to find any brand that was still willing to sell you a manual ...

The E39 generation BMW M5 is arguably the most beloved M5 model in history. It was the first-ever M5 to use a V8 engine, resulting in a power output of 395 hp (400 PS), to go with 369 lb-ft (500 Nm) ...

Pulling the engine out of an E39 5-Series for the sake of an LS2 V8 will definitely make some purists cringe but for the rest of us, this sweet wagon sounds like the next best thing to an E39 M5 if ...

Ask the average BMW fan what the best M5 is, and most would probably vote for the E39. It represents BMW design at its peak, ...

BMW has a really illustrious history, and since its inception in 1916, they have given us a plethora of amazing cars. One of them, the E46 M3, is the car responsible for turning me into a petrolhead.

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Something slightly different – a manual version of the current ‘F10’ BMW M5. Europeans have been denied a do-it-yourself gearbox in the M5 since the death of the ‘E39’ generation, back in 2003. But in ...

One of my teachers once spent a while appealing for the class to make his evening marking marathons less dreary by enlisting a spot of ‘revisionist’ history. Basically, the academic dark art of ...

More fascinating tales from BMW North America’s crypt, and this one’s a (literal) biggie. Development of the E39-generation M5 kicked off in earnest in 1993, and faced with outfitting its new ...