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I can already tell this is going to be a s**t show. Hi Floatplane and welcome to LMG Whips.

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This is my 2006 BMW M5.

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As Doug Demiro put it, the best car you should never own.

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I probably disagree with a little bit of it, but I can see where he's coming from at least.

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Let's start with the best and admittedly worst part of this car, the engine.

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This is BMW's S85 5.0-liter V10 engine exclusive to the E60 M5 and E63 E64 M6.

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It's what takes this otherwise admittedly boring bulbous,

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crisp-angled E60 chassis and makes it into something that is actually seriously cool.

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A sedan that is as fast and as crazy as a Lamborghini, if you will.

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By default, it makes 507 horsepower. It's tuned up a little bit and it sounds incredible, sort of.

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I actually kind of wanted to sell the thing. I've had it for two years now.

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When I bought it, it was just so tame. There's barely any exhaust note, there's barely any induction noise.

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So some minor modifications like a carbon fiber plenum, a little bit beefier intake system and an exhaust.

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Turn it from old man fast car to like old young man fast car.

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I guess if that makes any sense. When it works, it really is an awesome engine.

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The sound is there, the throttle response is there, the power is there.

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It might not be the torquiest engine in the world, given its kind of small displacement,

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but when you're up there at like 5000 RPM, 6000 RPM,

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and the Vanos kicks in, which is kind of like VTEC, and your tires break loose at 6000 RPM, it's pretty special.

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It's got just crazy legs. Like this car can do 205 miles per hour when it's being limited

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or something crazy like that. But when it works, it's kind of the key piece there.

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I'm sure if you've seen any videos on this car at all or read an article

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or even are just like car scene adjacent, I'm sure you've heard about the reliability issues.

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How many times has this engine broken down on you, Jake? This one's only broken down on me once.

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It's kind of low mileage. We'll talk more about that later. But I have lots of friends that have them,

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and their experience is not so good as mine.

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There's a kind of a laundry list of things that will break on this car. You've got throttle actuators, you've got idle control valves,

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you've got a high pressure Vanos line, you've got a high pressure Vanos pump, you've got rod bearings, you've got ionic modules,

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you've got, what else do you got? I don't know. That's pretty much the main ones that go, I guess.

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Oh, right, the transmissions. I think that that's pretty much it for the engine.

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There are more for the transmission, but we'll talk about that when we're in the car, I guess.

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This car's actually only ever broken down on me once. It was the throttle actuators,

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which is one of those issues you've probably heard of.

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Funnily enough, I was talking to my friend while driving the car like,

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man, I should probably replace those preventatively.

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But maybe I got another 10, 20,000 kilometers before they go.

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Parked the car, went inside, took a shower to go to the thing I was going to.

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Came back, started the car, check engine light.

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Scan it, throttle actuators. I don't have any other explanation other than I jinxed it,

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but it's important to frame it properly. What other cars do you get an engine like this?

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There's a VW, V10 diesel. I think there was an S6 or an S8 that also had a V10,

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but it's not as cool as this one. It's crazy and if you want crazy, you kind of have to pay to maintain crazy.

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At least a lot of the things, you spend a few thousand dollars and replace it

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and generally you're good. You replace the rod bearings with ones that have a larger gap

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and that kind of solves the problem. You upgrade the throttle actuators and that kind of solves the problem.

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Maybe I'm just too on the Kool-Aid, but it's worth it.

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Forget two doors. How about four doors?

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And not just any four doors. I mean, there are like grand coupes and stuff that have four doors

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but aren't really comfortable, but I'm six foot.

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I've got leg room. This seat is set how I usually sit in the front.

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So let's say there's a six foot driver in the front and six foot Jake in the back.

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I've got lots of leg room. I've got lots of headroom.

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It's a really, really comfortable car. And to have a really, really comfortable car

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that you can have like four people in here on a road trip

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with, you know, 500 plus horsepower and crazy noises.

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It's kind of amazing. What else exists that does this?

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I don't know. Oh, look, I even got like, oh, you want some cup holders?

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Look at how comfy I am. Very comfy. Holy s***, there's storage back here.

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You didn't know that? I've never really like been in the back of this car, obviously.

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No, I didn't know there was also storage. I mean, this is a Canadian car.

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So there's ski pass through back here. You put your skis through from the back.

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If you want to, you know, take your M5 up a mountain.

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But no, I didn't know about the storage too.

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You got climate control too. What? Oh, wow. This is pretty lame.

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Hey, I mean, some four doors don't have that. I mean, it's basic, but it works.

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Mind you, I mean, this car is just basic in general. It actually has zero options, not even one.

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Wait, really? There's no executive pack. Yeah, I don't know. It's like the stripper spec E60 M5.

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There's no, there's no executive package or shades.

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I don't even have comfort access, like the keyless start and keyless entry.

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You could get heated rear seats. Don't have that.

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You could get like split fold front seats. Don't have that.

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But luckily in Canada, the Alcantara headliner,

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it's like the fancy suede stuff, is standard. So all E60s came with it.

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If you get in an American E60, it usually just has a cloth headliner,

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unless it's like a really high spec one, which I appreciate the suede headliner is.

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This is the fun spot. Being a base model, there's a lot of changes in the front

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that are different to like 95% of E60 M5.

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You got to remember, this is like an M5. It's a five series. It's kind of a luxury car.

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So usually when people bought them, they put a bunch of different options on them,

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like active bolsters. This car does have the inflatable bolsters in each seat.

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So you can kind of make the car hug you a little bit more. But on most of them, they also have active bolsters,

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which means as you go around corners, the bolsters will inflate or deflate on either side

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to kind of like lean you into the corner a little bit more,

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support you a little more, so you don't lean. It's just, it was like 2005 when they developed that technology.

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So there's probably like a quarter or half second delay.

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So you're already partway in the corner, and then the bolster inflates, it's truly awful.

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And I don't know anyone that has one of these cars with that feature that actually uses it,

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except for one guy, but he's crazy. I also don't have a heads up display,

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which I don't really care about. Unlike the E9X M3, which is very similar.

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It's kind of like a stripped down version of this engine, but everything else is kind of in the same vein.

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You can't get this in a single hump. So every E60 M5 has iDrive,

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which is like the navigation screen. That's because a bunch of the climate control

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and other like weird carb settings and control features

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are built into the iDrive. And there's no other way to change them.

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For instance, there's no button here to change

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if you want the air blowing on your face or from the center of answer at your feet.

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It's all in the iDrive, which means if it breaks, you can't control those things.

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So you just have to have one. And that means the stripper spec, you know, still has at least some kind of tech things.

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But I like not having a lot of tech. Those other features like the heads up display,

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they usually just end up breaking. And I like my car to be proper.

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So my brain wouldn't let me not fix it, which means I would just be wasting money

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on stupid crap I don't care about. Other fun things in the interior

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include the super weird kind of janky cup holders. They do at least work

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unlike the previous generation five series, the E39, which I think in Europe never had cup holders.

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And then they were like, Oh, the North Americans need cup holders. And they put these like two little dinky.

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They're not even cup holders. It's like a little, a little hand that comes out

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when you open it and you put your drink and it holds the drink like here.

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Say this is the bottom of the drink. That's where it holds it on the drink. So it basically does nothing.

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So I'm glad that they're there, but they are shitty. And actually I've already broken this one once

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and then I broke it again, like a couple of weeks ago. You see that's not supposed to stick up and it doesn't close.

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Another sick part is the trunk space. I mean, just look at this.

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You could probably fit like six golf bags or like even a human in here.

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You know, funnily enough,

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I didn't have enough seats in my car at one point when I was picking up some friends.

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And instead of making a second trip, my friend was like, screw it. I'll just sit in the back.

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We were on a dirt road with lots of bumps. So he was in the back of here like...

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Back here, you can see the other modifications I made. I traded some dude, my stock mufflers

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for this Eisenman race plus some cash on top. It's cool because it's an original one.

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It's like 2007 Eisenman race with the oval tips.

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And then I have a Rogue Engineering stainless X pipe, which just deletes the stock resonator.

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Fully catted otherwise because I don't like my car to smell like shit.

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So thanks for watching. If you like this type of content, hit the like button down below and maybe we'll make more.

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I have many modifications I would like to make. And other terrible BMWs we could make more videos about.

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That one blows up too.