Hi---this is my very first post, but I feel right at home, as the website layout and graphics are identical to another that I frequent: ford-diesel.com (I own an excursion).
I'm ordering an M5 today---after a lot of "favor asking" it's being arranged for European delivery. I pick it up on May 22, the second day of my upcoming honeymoon. There is no "discount" as the M5 is not on the European delivery list, and my dealer has to divert one from his allocation.
Please help me with color, and options. I've only seen one or two of these cars, and I have to order today!!!! I'm leaning towards LeMans Blue, but I don't know what to do for interior, and options, and there are a lot of choices.... different types of leather, different trims. I'm sure this has all been discussed to ***** here, but do a guy a favor, and tell me how you'd order it, please.
The only bad news about this whole thing is that driving through Europe during the "break-in period" is going to be frustrating.
Congrats on your new ///M5. I don't own one but i can say that you will be happy. I've seen the wood interior trim look nice on some cars, just search for some post's and look for trim and that sort of stuff. I'm sure one of the REAL m5 owners will glady help you instead of me.
Le mans is a SPECTACULAR color. I've seen the Blue/Black sport interior and I think it's incredible. I personally have a Jet Black with the Black/Silverstone sport.
Be sure to get the M-Audio. That's the only really key option I can think of. If you search, you can find the differences. Alcantara headliner is a nice thing as well.
Matter of taste - I'm not much interested in dark cars, red is a little over the edge, Titanium Silver okay but very common, my second choice would probably have been white.
Euro Delivery is a blast, we've done two now and it's difficult to consider buying a car any other way*. You may be getting there early enough that 106mph will feel like a constraint; with the M5 we hit plenty of traffic and rarely had an opportunity to push past 110mph until very late in the trip anyway - our top was ~150mph on the run back to Frankfurt.
* well, we did Lost Wages Delivery on an old Suburban shortly thereafter, bought it on eBay and flew out to Las Vegas to drive it home, but it's not quite the same thing...
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Any color w/ Silverstone Sport (Titanium Trim) interior is a must have, wood looks really out of place in these cars (see Italia's post for pictures). Folding rear seats, Parking Distance Control, M Audio. Alcantara Headliner and if you park outside in the sun alot get the Sunshades. IMHO..DG
If your ordering a european car, the alacantera lining comes standard, and you can only order the titanium with the sportive interior, wood = exclusive
Gary
PS I have a Silverstone with all black Nappa leather seats with the titanium it looks wonderful, order the full SATNAV comms pack with TV and Motorola Startac phone too + the climate comfort windows and sun blinds and...
Can't agree regarding wood trim, I find that it works fine.
Fold-down back seat offers improved utility, but the one in our 540i rattled and squeaked pretty severely. I finally got disgusted with the rattling in that car a week ago and put some heavy foam weatherstrip tape around three sides of the opening it closes against, which has silenced 95% of the noise.
This has been pretty interesting. Most of the responses seem to favor the 2 tone sport seats, but when I called dealers, they tried to talk me out of them. One suggested that if someone wanted to order a LeMans Blue, with the Blue/Black seats, he'd require a $5000 non-refundable deposit, as it is too odd a combo for his market (Los Angeles). He said that he's sitting on a bunch of the Z3 roadsters w/two tone seats, and can't give them away.
I'm confused
I have a Carbon Black/Caramel with Walnut trim, to my eyes is the most breathtaking combination ever put on a motorcar. And from the 200+ individuals who frequent this board, you will get 200+ individual opinions regarding their combinations, just like me. Colors and options are personal choices, but no matter what you choose, there is one thing we all have in common…
Our absolute conviction that we own the best sports sedan ever built by man.
If the dealers had their way, everyone would want a Titanium Silver 530i with automatic transmission, sport package, and black or gray upholstery, because I'm sure that's what they sell the most of, and they know if they order up a bunch of them they'll be able to sell them.
What dealers like is a car that no one actively dislikes. It doesn't matter if no one really loves it - that's why you have sales staff, to turn grudging acceptance into a signed check.
I would bet that most of the E39s (non M5s) dealers order for inventory, even sport-package cars, do not have sport seats - because although you can probably sell base or comfort seats to almost everyone (even if they might like the sport seats better), there's going to be some small percentage of rotund buyers who will actively dislike the sport seats.
I was marveling the other day at just absolutely how few choices of color we have on cars these days. Once upon a time there were yellows, and various blues, and hideous greens, and interiors with not just two colors of leather but actually differently-patterned fabrics, etc. These days the dealers want silver paint and gray upholstery and they'll deal with forcing them down people's throats.
A friend of mine has an Audi S4 Avant - dark blue, with dark blue/black seats similar to the blue/black M5 seats. I love it. It pokes you in the eye a little bit, but IMO in a good way.
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