Y's Factory BMW M5 is Radical or Ruined?
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ricerrrrrr... but it DOES look at home on a track id haf to say. just very riced on the streets
February 9, 2009 6:13 pm
If it wouldnt look so cheaply made i'd love it for its track car looks (if it goes just as fast as it looks)
February 9, 2009 6:13 pm
^^Given that u cant spell SUBARU, I guess theres no need to respond to your comment XD
As far as this car goes, its not the prettiest, but seems that everything on it Xept for the Green (ugly) headlights and stickers has a function...id use it as a daily driver fo sho!
February 9, 2009 6:42 pm
[X] park-bench rear wing [X] fart-can exhaust [X] excessively-lowered suspension [X] eye-wateringly-bright racing seats [X] Type-RRRR/SPARCO/GREDDY/NAWZ go-fast stickers [ ] gaudy paint color
Uh oh... they missed one option on the Rice-It? option sheet!
February 9, 2009 6:58 pm
Holy crap...I think I have seen this whole kit at Walmart....its called Racer-in-a-Box...$99.95
February 9, 2009 7:36 pm
BUMP!
...If this is supposed to be an actual track car.
It is...right?
If it is, then I appreciate what they did with it and I wish they did this with a M6 instead. If not, WTF!?!?
February 9, 2009 9:41 pm
For goodness sake, Y, stick to your own brands!
Nobody in the west appreciates what you do to our cars.
(Fun Trivia: Using the letters in the first sentence, you can spell "rice" three times.)
February 9, 2009 8:45 pm
nice try, M5 is really a pathetic car. maybe that brought the factory some satisfaction to whatever garbage on wheels it was
February 9, 2009 10:35 pm
WHOA, NOW!
I don't "like" the M5 either, but you're being downright disrespectful now...
February 9, 2009 10:36 pm
If DTM some how grew past 2 teams competing... I could see this being the third make.
February 9, 2009 11:32 pm
The car is designed as a track car, so its less priority on looks. The rear diffuser is ugly but the rest of the car is fine. The downforce granted by a large wind-tunnel testing wing can't be gained by anything else. It might look "Rice" but if you remove your heads from your @$$es and watch some GT racing, you'll see GT wings in play because they grant the BEST downforce out back.
Track cars need downforce, good suspension tuning can only grant so much stability and handling.
February 10, 2009 12:28 am
...And I thought the 5-series came ugly from factory, this actually beats it! cannot believe it!
February 10, 2009 1:05 am
Wow!!! The rear end seems to be a bit over the top. I hope form dose follow function in this case.
February 10, 2009 1:12 am
It's a track car. It may look a bit over-done but everything is there out of necessity.
Get past judging a car by its looks and you can start appreciating them more for its purpose and function.
Go out on a track and try a lap in a high powered machine without downforce aids (especially on an aerodynamically challenged car like a sedan) and you'll start slapping rear spoilers on your cars too.
The tin-can exhaust is what bothers me the most...it could've been more discreet since an NA car doesn't need the biggest diameter piping to maximize power increase. A big can like that is(functionally and aesthetically) more appropriate for a turbo charged car...but I'd like to hear what it sounds like at idle and at full blast!
February 10, 2009 1:17 am
Ricers touching European (or American, I suppose) cars is tantamount, amongst enthusiasts, to sacrelige. I'm one of those who adore the M5, or even the regular 5, but this is just horrendous in my opinion.
If it's a track car, then I can understand the lowered suspension, large brakes, racing seats (though, maybe not the colour of them) and at a stretch the skirts and perhaps the spoiler, though that sort of wing would be appropriate for a world-championship level driver. What I don't understand, along with the tinted lights, is the tin-can exhausts -- on a ricebox they look... "good", if you're thus inclined, but I cannot imagine anybody outside of Y thinking that's a good idea. If they're purely functional, they don't need to be that large on a NA car.
To be honest, though, I doubt this is a track car -- if you want a track car, then this sort of money could buy you a nice 911, which would probably thrash this around a track. If you need five useable seats, then you're obviously going to be using this on the road, which means part of this is probably for show. I don't know, this just smells like a poor-taste Japanese tuner take on a German car. Quite simply, I hate it.
February 10, 2009 7:24 am









