Here’s a clip of an E39 M5 at a drag strip somewhere, going up in a bracket race against, as the poster calls it, a ricer. The nice thing about bracket racing is that it allows disparate cars to race each other and as the E39 M5 owner admits, he lost this one due to [...]

There’s nothing like a video to demonstrate something nifty. In this case, it’s for how to find out how many liters of fuel your E39 M5 is burning per hour. It’s supposed to be a good indicator of how healthy the mass airflow meters are. The S62′s MAF if in proper condition is supposed to [...]

This video was taken in Bathurst, Australia, where for most of the year, it is a public road. There are a lot of race courses around the world which use large sections of public roads as part of the racetrack. Surfaces like these are different from the smooth track one normally experiences in a dedicated [...]

Despite having “only” 400 horsepower, this video shows that an E39 M5 can still run with its more powerful siblings with engines a hundred or more horsepower up on them. Few cars can have their speedometers walk up to their limits, but this particular car and driver show that it’s truly attainable anytime, given the [...]

This video of a pair of high-performance E39s shows someone who really, really likes BMW’s sedans. Funnily, it’s the E39 M5, with its bigger displacement 4.9-liter engine, which is supposedly the little brother in this Bavarian brood. Big brother is an E39 540i that has been fitted with a supercharger boosting to 15 pounds, and [...]