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BMW M3 CSL V8, M5 CSL, M6 CSL: M automobiles that no-one has ever seen. We take an exclusive peek inside the secret BMW M garage and encounter prototypes which were developed for maximum performance, but never saw the light of day. The M5 CSL Which Took Performance To The Limits In 2009, BMW M wanted to celebrate the M5 's 25th anniversary and did so by unveiling the M5 CSL prototype.
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In this entry, I take a look back at the M5 CSL and the limited public information that is available about what is arguably the greatest M car BMW never released. Or new thing, that is - a special M5 CSL created by BMW. The BMW M5 is an iconic car in the industry, and it has been heralded as the performance benchmark in the luxury segment for years.
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The M5 represents the last time BMW produced genuinely spectacular results with the CS suffix, and it's the first - and as yet only - time it has been used on an M5. And the M3 CSL? Well, it would probably give both the original M1 and the 'E9' CSL 'Batmobile' a pretty stiff challenge for the title of most celebrated M car of all time. If you happen to find £150,000 of used banknotes.
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This one never made it that far. For reasons that are lost to time - or BMW doesn't want to divulge - the E60 M5 CSL was stillborn. There's a visual clue to what's been done.
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See the. In BMW's top-secret prototype lab is an E60 M5 CSL one-off, which featured a 621 horsepower V10 and a DCT gearbox. To celebrate 25 years of M5, BMW has created a special lightweight version of the E60 M5, that M division's head of development, Albert Biermann calls, "the M5 CSL we never built." 5.0.
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In part one, Top Gear Magazine's Ollie Marriage looked at an E46 M3 CSL with an E39-gen M5's V8 shoehorned under the bonnet, and a prototype F87 M2 CSL that featured elements from the M4 GTS. 2009 BMW M5 CSL Built to celebrate 25 years of the M5, this CSL model is a one-of that mimics the CSL racecars of BMW's past. Highlights include a larger 5.5.
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