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Recently I thought I was in the market for a new car, or an upgrade to say the least. Specifically I was thinking about upgrading my Z4M to an M5. Used M5’s, and BMW M cars in general depreciate faster than a brick falling into a black hole. As such I was able to find a wonderful M5 with less than 20k miles on carmax for ~$45k. This is around half of the asking price at a dealer for a new model.

Anyways, I went down the the Carmax dealership that had this particular car to go for a test drive. Lucily for me, the person I was set up with was under the impression that this was  “5 Series BMW”. A few days earlier I had test drove a brand new 2010 M5 at a proper BMW dealership and they neutered the car with only 400hp. I had no problems putting the car into sport mode and then use all 500 hp.

Now after I explained to the sales woman that I was going to drive this car aggressively and that if she had any issue with this that she could politely ask me to slow down, she agreed and I nailed it and left 2 black stripes 1st gear long.

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As a result from the encouragement from a friend of mine, who also got a new BMW (a 335i sedan, 6spd – on the same exact day I got mine, no less). I signed up for the BMW of San Diego’s Autocross event that occurs in the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot.
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