The E39 was also the first M5 with variable valve timing and a six-speed manual transmission. Gloriously, BMW still wasn’t ..

To point out everyone is, in fact, wrong. Possibly – perish the thought – the E39 generation BMW M5 isn’t the greatest super saloon of all time. Never meet your heroes and all that.

BMW wants the new 2018 600hp M5 to be a return to form – so has given it four-wheel drive for the first time. Does the ...