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With its power and high-tech handling, the 2013 BMW M5’s potential feels wasted on public roads, yet its driver-assistance and cabin-tech systems are the best in the business for road trips and daily commutes.

The 2013 BMW M5 is a staggering automotive achievement because it so delicately straddles the line between supercar performance and luxury car comfort. It’s alarming fast when it needs to be, soothingly quiet while cruising, and eminently approachable at its rather elevated limits.

Armed with a more muscular and efficient V8 engine and a smoother, dual-clutch transmission, the 2013 BMW M5 raises the bar set by its formidable predecessors, offering bracing handling, prodigious power and improved fuel economy.

With more power, fewer emissions and a simpler user interface, the 2013 M5 is easily the best of its breed. If you’re looking for a vehicle that can pull double duty of comfortable cruise and all out track machine, you won’t find anything better.

Armed with a more muscular and efficient V8 engine and a smoother, dual-clutch transmission, the 2013 BMW M5 raises the bar set by its formidable predecessors, offering bracing handling, prodigious power and improved fuel economy.

BMW’s M5 delivers on its promise to combine everyday usability with occasional track-day fun. Its muscular, bulging bodywork hints at its performance without appearing juvenile in its mission. The duality offered by the tiny “M” buttons on the steering wheel means that you are essentially buying two cars in one.

The 2013 BMW M5 is a more than worthy entry in the brand’s long line of high-performance sedans. If you have a need for speed and a large enough bank balance, treat yourself to this supremely capable driving machine.

This M5 has got almost all of the refinement of the current 5-series, all of the tech features, gorgeous styling, and elegant interior. And then it’s got razor-sharp handling and the best steering we’ve seen in a 5-series in a long time, if not ever.

The M5 is a pretty complete and wonderful example of what kind of magnificent car BMW can turn out when the company’s sporting chops are on the line. It is not, in any respect, a “purist” driver’s car. It is, a technological statement of dominance from one of the world’s finest engineering companies.

Much like a purveyor of fine spirits, when an automaker starts with quality components, and adds time, insight, and desire, it’s possible to create something amazing — a vintage that can truly be savored. With the new M5, BMW has done just that.

The 2012 BMW M5’s greatest asset is that it hides all its lunacy and performance under the inauspicious clothes of a midsize sedan. It’s more than just a great engine, it’s a better overall sport sedan.

The M5 is a quantifiably superior car to its predecessor. Some things can’t be quantified, however. We’re all for more-efficient, more-powerful torque monsters, but perhaps not at the expense of personality.