Re: BMW M Manager Bruhnke at Stockholm Open, Sweden and answer to your questions
Great write-up Gustav. You would be a perfect star in the Läckerol commercials. "Gustav, makes people talk"
The new beast will be displayed at a norwegian car show starting wednesday. It will be the first time I see it, and I must admit I'm quite excited. A black CCR will also be there.
What I would like to see from M is "M service", an international service hotline staffed with people with engineering level knowledge, for customers and local BMW service advisors alike to call with questions not solved through the usual area/national helplines.
Let´s face it: local service today simply does not match the refinement of the cars.
If it hadn´t been for this site, many things on my car would never had been fixed.
Big Thanks, for making M5board, Gustav!
David
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Re: BMW M Manager Bruhnke at Stockholm Open, Sweden and answer to your questions
Thanks for the great writeup and pictures from the Paris and Stockholm M5 presentations. I guess we didn't know how fortunate we were in the U. S. when BMW made the worldwide introduction of the E60 M5 at our BMW Car Club of America Oktoberfest in Pasadena, California. That was on July 5th and it looks like it was the Sepang Bronze car they showed you. It was a European version.
Hernando Caraval, the M Product Manager for BMW North America handled the presentation and in response to questions said there will be no standard transmission offered. Given that his information was secondhand, and coming from your source, Mr. M (Mr. Bruhnke), your source should be better. But hearing/reading both responses, I'd guess the U. S. won't see a standard transmission.
FYI, the first BMW SMG (SMG I) was intended for the E39 M5. They couldn't get it to shift in any way acceptably, except for wide-open-throttle upshifts, for road use. I was told by the then BMW NA M Product Manager, Erik Wensberg, that you had to make sure the headrests were up to stop the movement of your head whenever the car shifted. I'm told that the SMG III is much better in that regard than the SMG II, which still doesn't shift smoothly under many conditions.
Re: BMW M Manager Bruhnke at Stockholm Open, Sweden and answer to your questions
Thanks for the information, compliments and comments.
To add to your information below, BMW M told me they did not have alot of time to engineer an SMG for the E39 M5, since it was not decided that BMW M should build an E39 based M5 when the E39 was launched in 1995/96. So it also had to do with time-constraints.
With the E60 it was decided from the start that an M5 would be built so now they designed the M5 from the start to have SMG gearbox.
A sentence I seem to have hard to remember is the words from a BMW boardmember that said "We gave BMW M a carte blanche in the new M5"
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Originally Posted by Louis
FYI, the first BMW SMG (SMG I) was intended for the E39 M5. They couldn't get it to shift in any way acceptably, except for wide-open-throttle upshifts, for road use. I was told by the then BMW NA M Product Manager, Erik Wensberg, that you had to make sure the headrests were up to stop the movement of your head whenever the car shifted. I'm told that the SMG III is much better in that regard than the SMG II, which still doesn't shift smoothly under many conditions.
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