2012 BMW F10 M5: Pictures and video

By Greg Mombert Published June 23, 2011

The new BMW M5 was introduced last week, but today the first video has hit the Web showing off the new M5’s 560-horsepower, high-revving, TwinPower turbocharged V8 engine. The M5 high-performance sports car line was first introduced in 1988, and the new fifth-generation model once again attempts to redefine performance in a luxury sedan. The previously mentioned turbocharged V8 provides the 2012 M5 with 500 lb-ft of torque and enough power to race from 0 to 62 mph in 4.4 seconds and 0 to 124 mph in 13 seconds. Even with all that power, the new M5 doesn’t throw fuel efficiency to the side, as it will consume roughly 30 percent less than its predecessor.

No pricing has been announced, but expect to see the 2012 BMW M5 at authorized US BMW Centers in the spring of 2012.

(Source)

Greg Mombert

Studio Director

Greg oversees homepage promotional imagery, long form content layouts and graphics, product photography, and the product…

Topics

Photo Galleries

Cars

A new sodium battery posts wild four-minute charging numbers, but don’t expect it in an EV yet

The breakthrough could improve fast charging and battery life, but the study hasn’t demonstrated those results in a production-sized pack

A new sodium-metal battery has posted a charging number that makes today’s EVs look painfully slow. In laboratory testing, the cell operated at a 15C rate, equivalent to completing a charge or discharge in roughly four minutes.

That doesn’t mean researchers plugged in an electric car and watched it fill up before the driver finished buying coffee. The result came from a small experimental cell using a new quasi-solid electrolyte, while the larger pouch-cell prototype delivered far less dramatic performance.

Cars

The Apple Car may be dead, but it became the foundation of Apple Intelligence

A decade of work on a canceled car project reportedly laid the groundwork for Apple Intelligence.

The Apple Car may have never left the garage, but it apparently gave birth to Apple's AI ambitions. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's canceled autonomous vehicle project, one that consumed more than a decade of work and over $10 billion before being scrapped in 2024, ended up laying the technological foundation for Apple Intelligence. In a rather ironic twist, one of Apple's most expensive failures may also become one of its most important long-term investments.

The Apple Car forced Apple to think like an AI company

Cars

Volkswagen’s ID. Unyx 09 just leaked, and it’s the kind of EV I want to see in the US

VW's partnership with Xpeng is producing exactly what we hoped.

I've been watching Volkswagen's China lineup quietly get cooler for the past two years, but the ID. Unyx 09 might be the moment it finally gets exciting, not just for Chinese buyers, but for the rest of the world as well.

Regulatory filings from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Batch 409, have exposed the full specs of the upcoming sedan ahead of its official launch later this year, and it looks nothing like any VW car I've seen before (via CarNewsChina).