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Written by Ollie Kew
BMW"s long tradition of providing its latest, greatest M car for MotoGP racing safety car duties rumbles on. Here"s the latest member of the family: the 2018 Moto GP BMW M5 safety car. And it"s more than a few stickers on a 592bhp saloonBMW"s thrown the complete catalogue of optional M Division performance parts" at the MotoGP M5. Maybe they covered it in glue. Anyway, there"s a new carbon fibre diffuser, carbon sills, carbon kidney grilles, carbon mirrors essentially, anything that you would normally presume is plastic, is now carbon. You can spec all of these lightweight CFRP parts, and the lighter titanium sports exhaust, on your new G30"-gen M5 when it goes on sale later this year.What you can"t have is the MotoGP car"s jutting front splitter. It"s made of (guess?) carbon fibre, and is specifically saved for the motorcycle race series pack leader. And don"t expect to spec the racing bonnet catches or the lightweight bucket seats from the M4 GTS in your new M5 soon either. Still, it"s an interesting study of what a new BMW M5 CS would feature, no?
Date written: 30 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9756
BMW"s long tradition of providing its latest, greatest M car for MotoGP racing safety car duties rumbles on. Here"s the latest member of the family: the 2018 Moto GP BMW M5 safety car. And it"s more than a few stickers on a 592bhp saloonBMW"s thrown the complete catalogue of optional M Division performance parts" at the MotoGP M5. Maybe they covered it in glue. Anyway, there"s a new carbon fibre diffuser, carbon sills, carbon kidney grilles, carbon mirrors essentially, anything that you would normally presume is plastic, is now carbon. You can spec all of these lightweight CFRP parts, and the lighter titanium sports exhaust, on your new G30"-gen M5 when it goes on sale later this year.What you can"t have is the MotoGP car"s jutting front splitter. It"s made of (guess?) carbon fibre, and is specifically saved for the motorcycle race series pack leader. And don"t expect to spec the racing bonnet catches or the lightweight bucket seats from the M4 GTS in your new M5 soon either. Still, it"s an interesting study of what a new BMW M5 CS would feature, no?
Date written: 30 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9756
