Browsing: e34 M5 Convertible

[Adi]

Found this interesting ready....
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/29/bmw-builds-e34-m5-convertible-keeps-it-secret-for-20-long-years/

 

[maximus]

EPIC raise: It's too bad they never put it into production

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E34 M5 coupe looked super awesome as well!

 

[///MALCOLM325]

Ok that car just gave me chills...

Who the hell is BMW to withhold production of something as majestic as this? raise:

 

[maximus]

Screw practicality! This looks sooo ORGASMIC! :rollsmile:

 

[Clownshoe]

It was made in response to an AMG convertable... which was then canned... so this did not even make it to the show...

here are thick metal beams keeping the whole thing from folding in half.

 

[rick540]

I wonder how it would have driven? These cars are big assed and heavy, cut the roof off and I think they must have had their hands full.

Even the 328 verts I have driven have an alarming amount of scuttle shake.

 

[Karthik]

That looks really good , but would have to be a bit!! to handle

 

[Sith]

Clownshoe's totally correct on that. Have read about this car a number of times. They could not get it structurally sound, and canned the idea. Would have been a great car.

 

[Sankekur]

Can't think that an e34 M5 convertible would be any good, personally I think any convertible M car is a waste of time as you are basically taking away from the character that is an M car.


That e34 coupé was a photoshop done by uber back when I first joined the forum it looks so epic I called in on the build, and I am still in for when this gets done one day :rollsmile:

 

[Sith]

Haha!!! You know, Sank, I agree with you, I don't have anything against convertible M cars but, yes, do feel it robs the car of it's character, and believe the tin top is always the right way to go. However, I do think, for example, a E34 525i convertible may have been a great posers car, and BMW may have sold quite a few to those types who want to cruise the beach strips. So yes, not as an M car, but as a standard 5 Series, it may have worked, but we will never know.

 

[Coisman]

:drool: :drool: :drool:

 

[Kobus328i]

SKIET DIE BLIKSEMS !!! Dis fokken mooi !!!!

 

[Sankekur]

Haha!!! You know, Sank, I agree with you, I don't have anything against convertible M cars but, yes, do feel it robs the car of it's character, and believe the tin top is always the right way to go. However, I do think, for example, a E34 525i convertible may have been a great posers car, and BMW may have sold quite a few to those types who want to cruise the beach strips. So yes, not as an M car, but as a standard 5 Series, it may have worked, but we will never know.

Couldn't agree more, one such thing being the e46 Ci, personally I think they should rather have given us the 330Ci in a coupé and the 325Ci convertible (or they should have just given us both in coupé and vert)

 

[e46monk3y]

M project car, same as the e92 ///M3 bakkie and they also made an e46 M3 touring! as well as many other ///M franken cars :boo!:

Weird thing about structural rigidility and such, the new 6 series is the same size if not maybe bigger than a e34, and the 650i has 400bhp and that also comes in a soft top..

Personally the only M car I wouldn't mind having is an e30 M3 cabrio, (as well as an e30 M3 evolution, M3 CSL and an e60 M5 in my 4 doored garage as well :in-love:

 

[Clownshoe]

Convertibles need to be designed from scratch as convertibles. And the coupes as separate animals. The amount of support needed to make a convertable ridgid adds alot of weight. The Mcoupe is a convertable with a hard top slapped ontop. This makes it very heavy but double stiff.