The E34 M5 marked the end of an era for BMW's hand-built M cars ... to fulfill homologation requirements for sports car racing. This explains its lightweight design and modest, 197-hp 2.0-liter ...

Three BMW M5s line up for a drag race. One of them has a serious disadvantage (RWD), while the modern car has an extra power ...

1,650kg), BMW stated that ‘the race-based technology of the BMW ... nobody was going crazy, yet the E34 certainly felt like an M car rather than merely a 5 Series with a big engine.

but there’s always a nagging doubt with modern M cars that they’re not quite as special as they used to be. Take the E34 BMW M5, for instance. There was little wrong with a standard E34 ...