2005 AC Schnitzer ACS5 Sport M5 E60

2005 AC Schnitzer ACS5 Sport M5 E60

2005 AC Schnitzer ACS5 Sport M5 E60 The figure "507" has been legendary in BMW history for many years. More exactly on account that 1956, while the designer Albrecht Graf Goertz created an car dream, the BMW 507 Roadster.

Today, almost 50 years later, the figure "507" once more has a magic significance: this time not as a model designation but as the extraordinary HP parent of the brand new BMW V10 engine.

This time the automotive dream is known as "M5" and is not simply one car - it is at least two.

Firstly a secure luxury saloon and secondly an agile sports automobile - the M5 is both. But typically it is constantly precisely what the driver wants, at the rush of a button.

This idea, already exceptional in popular shape, has been perfected by the improvement of the AC Schnitzer special accent range. This supposed additionally that a few components did not want perfecting - this applies in general to the powerful engine. The V10 high overall performance gadget remains unchanged even after the "AC Schnitzer treatment".

Only inside the location of the exhaust machine attached to the engine did AC Schnitzer see room for development. The newly evolved AC Schnitzer double sports activities rear silencer made absolutely from chrome steel and completed with the similarly new chromed tailpipe trims in "Sports Trim" layout, gives the BMW M5 a far more powerful and sonorous voice than its wellknown brother.

At the equal time, the gas flow is optimised and the response behaviour perceptibly advanced.

The "Sports Trim" rear silencer is an exclusive development for the brand new BMW M-series - now not best for the M5 but also for the M6.

The riding dynamics of the BMW M5 are in addition improved through the usage of the AC Schnitzer suspension spring kit. As well as definitely decreasing the car through around 25 mm, which lowers the centre of gravity of the BMW M5, the spring package allows lively cornering inside the M5 with out a lack of using comfort.

In addition, the BMW M5 may be geared up with racing rims and alloy wheels in numerous designs and sizes.

For one-piece monoblock editions, wheels in Type III and IV are available in sizes 8.5J x 19" to nine.5J x 19".

Even more one of a kind are the AC Schnitzer racing rims in Types III and IV, which have been examined in lots of one-of-a-kind sizes from 19" through 20" and inside the pinnacle version even as much as length nine.0J and 10.0J x 21".

One absolute highlight in the AC Schnitzer wheel region is the new "Forged Wheel". This lightweight forged wheel with bi-color finish - i.E. Partially polished, in part lacquered surface achieves an apparent fundamental paradox: discount in weight, and at the identical time most wheel diameter and width.

This masterpiece is completed by the AC Schnitzer engineers and architects in the "Forged Wheel", whose layout - even though unmistakeably associated with the Type IV wheel - is totally unique. The "Forged Wheel" is predicted to be available from December 2005 in sizes 9.0J x 20" and 10.0J x 20" for the BMW M5 and might be equipped with tyres of length 245/35 R 20 or 285/30 R 20 on the rear.

The weight of the front wheel is approx. 10 kg and the rear wheel 10.Eight kg.

For tyres for all wheel variations we endorse excessive overall performance tyres from Continental and Michelin.

Although the advent of the car already becomes greater exceptional by becoming the AC Schnitzer wheels, we also offer aerodynamically green adjustments to the bodywork.

For the M5, a carbon the front splitter has been advanced which can be firmly connected to the front spoiler with chromed aluminium webs. This individual answer now not best gives the sports activities saloon a extra hanging outfit however additionally improves downforce at the front axle.

In addition, the new AC Schnitzer chrome the front grille can be fitted, which evidently meets the excessive air intake necessities of the BMW V10 engine. At the identical time it gives the BMW M5 a hint retro appearance, reminiscent of a legendary "shark's mouth".

Aerodynamic stability is done by means of the rear roof spoiler, the only-piece rear spoiler and the carbon rear diffuser that's incorporated into the rear skirt. The latter also impressively integrates the AC Schnitzer sports activities rear silencer "Sports Trim".

Used in conjunction, all aerodynamic aids ensure better downforce for the BMW M5, so that with the entire AC Schnitzer aerodynamic conversion the automobile is perceptibly extra solid and its appearance harmonises with its carrying performance objectives.

For the interior, a carbon indoors trim is to be had in titanium "Exclusive" finish, a three-spoke sports activities airbag steering wheel or velours foot mats together with the function AC Schnitzer aluminium pedals and footrests or the handbrake handle.

The new layout of an aluminium cover for the controller of the BMW "i-Drive System" within the design of the Type IV wheel units the of entirety.

The whole AC Schnitzer unique accessory range for the BMW M5 is predicted to be to be had from Winter 2005.