Its been a long week but finally sold the car (drove 400 miles from North of scotland to Leeds to meet a guy who didn't turn up) and picked up my new beast.
After looking at M5s RS4s Range Rover Sports and even X5s I eventually test drove them all and fell in love with the kudos image and of course power and style of the M5.
So its a two owner full service history with 9 months warranty and fully fully loaded including DVD player in the rear with wireless headphones! Only thing missing from spec is leather on the dash, folding seats and the fancy roof lining (I assume because of the factory roof DVD system) M6 alloys are factory fit and have been recently replaced as were bubbling!