If asked to name the most outstanding quality of BMW’s E39 M5, most fans would point to its legendary V8 engine, a high-revving beast of a power plant that cemented this M5 as one of the best sports ...

Join the Project Skövde team as they receive and inspect a rare garage find: the BMW E39 M5 with its impressive V8 engine. This episode covers the early evaluation process after the car's discovery, ...

Today, the E39-generation BMW M5 is seen as both one of the best M5s ever and as the benchmark that today's best sport sedans are still chasing. Much of that reputation comes from the spectacular S62 ...

In truth, there’s probably not a lot more to say about the E39 generation of BMW M5. After all, it was voted best saloon for ...

BMW has built plenty of memorable M5s over the decades, but of them all, few have aged as gracefully as the E39 generation. Built between 1998 and 2003, it was the first M5 to feature a V8 engine and ...

Explore the engineering decisions and market demands that shaped this iconic sports sedan's powertrain.

The BMW M5 is the iconic high-performance version of the BMW 5 Series executive sedan and station wagon, produced across seven generations beginning with the E28 model in 1984. Considered one of the ...

About 20,000 components to every single BMW on the road today get put to the extreme test well beyond real-world expectations. Then again, sometimes a not-your-average-driver does subject their BMW to ...

I know it’s completely hyperbolic to call something the “best ever,” but right now, that’s how I feel after watching the television commercial above. It’s for the E39 BMW M5, and it does more to ...