The other day I watched a couple of reviews on the latest BMW M5. Both the reviewers and the community do not give much love to this car. From the technical standpoint, most criticized is its obesity: The M5 is heavy, with a weight of 2.5 tons. Together with an extremely powerful engine it is “a cruise ship acting as a jet ski” as one test driver commented.

While the first M5 in the 1980s had a weight of about 1.4 tons (!), the weight grew to 2 tons for the previous model and adding 500kg for the latest model. An extreme gain…

The weight of a vehicle is one of the most important parameters and it should be as low as possible.

BMW has been a company which put always great emphasis on lightweight engineering and they marked many milestones, such as the i3 as the first series-produced all-composite frame vehicle.

So that BMW released a performance car of such weight level is surprising.

It looks to me that there has been gone something wrong in the development of this car. If BMW will not be able to reduce the weight of the successor significantly again, I do not believe that there will be one.

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