Love them or hate them, you have to respect BMW’s commitment to constantly improving their performance cars, and charging dearly for them. The German automaker has revealed what it calls its quickest, most powerful car ever – the 2022 BMW M5 CS. It’s astonishingly fast, and costs about three times the price of the car it’s based on.
The CS squeezes out 627 horsepower from its 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8. It’s also 230 pounds lighter than the M5 Competition on which it’s based, thanks to carbon fiber components. Its suspension is even stiffer. The CS gets from zero to sixty in a jaw-dropping 2.9 seconds. That makes it the fastest production car in BMW history. It costs $142,995.
The CS is visually easy to distinguish, thanks to gold surrounds on the grille and badges and LED running lights that illuminate in a gold hue. Inside, it features four deep and well-bolstered bucket seats. The front seats are carbon fiber clad with grippy, suede-like Alcantara upholstery. Illuminated CS badges remind you which one you’ve bought.
BMW will offer the CS for one year only. It arrives here in the second half of 2021.
The rest of the 5-series lineup looks like this:
BMW 5-Series – Probably the most athletic entry in the midsize luxury sedan segment, the ordinary 5-Series is available in rear- or all-wheel drive, with a choice of four engines ranging from 248 to 523 horsepower. It drives like a sports car but is also a comfortable family car. The 2021 model starts at $54,200 and tops out at a little over $80,000.
BMW M5 – BMW’s high-performance M division builds high-performance versions of standard BMW cars. Their M5 is still functional as a family sedan, but with compromises. The same stiff ride that makes it corner like a race car makes it hard on passengers. Under the hood is a 4.4-liter, twin-turbo V8 making 600 horsepower, and on the window is a sticker nearly double the price of the base version, starting at $103,500.
BMW M5 Competition – The same engine is tuned for 617 horsepower in the Competition model, the suspension is even stiffer, and the car sits lower. The Competition model is lighter than the M5, thanks to removing much of the sound-deadening material, so it growls like a demon even at its passengers. A new Track Mode disables all driver assists in so a more experienced driver can get more out of the car without them. The Competition model can go from zero to sixty mph in 3.1 seconds. BMW asks $111,095 for this one.
