E60 M5 £17,850!!
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Got a mate with one of these - lovely, lovely motor. However even though he's not short of a bob or two he's mentioned running / maintenance costs can be 'eye-watering'. He got his second hand but still under warranty - which turned out to be fortunate... I was several sheets to the wind when he told me this, so the details are fuzzy, but I think he had to have the gearbox replaced as well as something major to do with the rear axle / suspension apprently caused by 'mis-use' on the part of the previous owner. Unsurprisingly I DO remember the repair bill clear as day - £23k 
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The mileage isn't the problem, it's the maintenance/running costs that are - just like any M5 of any era. If you're only planning on doing a couple of thousand miles a year then they're not that bad, but bank on filling up every 200 miles. Don't forget, you're still maintaining a £60k car - and there's not many indy ///M specialists who'll claim to be experts on the newer M5/M3.pvr said:
There are plenty of e61 M5 Tourings (in fact there are 9 for sale at the moment), so your dealer is telling you porkies - but then why would expect anything else from a dealerpvr said:
Here's some photo's from when I went along for a UK magazine road test feature of the new M5T. Including a couple of me driving the vehicle in question.
To a man, none of the owners there said they'd swap their e34s for the e60/61 M5, as while it was undoubtedly fast (hitting the 170mph limiter at half-way along Bruntingthorpe runway), it never felt that you were driving it, and you just had to turn the steering wheel in hope and wait for it to turn than feeling the tyres bite in through the steering whee;.
These are very tempting on the face of it BUT the running costs will surely eat into your pocket big time - take the fuel costs as an example, if say it's a daily drive @10,000miles with an average MPG of 15, you're looking at about £4,500 on just fuel alone. Layer in Tyres (say £1k @ low end), warranty £1.5k, service £600-1200... that's nearly 50% the car's value on ANNUAL running costs 
Agree though, at these prices you almost think F** it
, you only live once especially considering it's a £70k motor at Mondeo money just 6 yrs later....
Agree though, at these prices you almost think F** it
, you only live once especially considering it's a £70k motor at Mondeo money just 6 yrs later....