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Originally Posted by Germanauto
The E60 certainly looks too bulbous and aside from the pre-LCI E65, I'd say it was the only questionable design from Bangle.
With that being said, the E60 remains "modern" even today both inside and out. It's a car BMW could put in showrooms tomorrow and it wouldn't look that dated.
The E39 on the other hand? It clearly harkens back to a different era. It's a beautiful and timeless design, yet does not look "modern" in the way the E60 does, especially from inside. Those pre-Bangle BMWs had absolutely atrocious interior material quality.
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I certainly agree the e60 M5 looks "newer".
But, interior? Really? I'd say the e60 has BMW's second worst interior ever (the worst being the e36). The e39 on the other hand, especially in M5 guise, is pretty outstanding. Purposeful, driver orientated, high quality materials, easy to use quickly, no fluff. The e60's is ugly, not driver oriented, requires digging through menus for functionality that used to be quickly accessed via buttons, has less useful gauges, and you're saddled with iDrive in the center stack. In terms of materials, the e39 M5 came with alcantara headliner/pillars as standard whereas it was an optional upsell on the e60. Despite the e60 being a significantly larger exterior size, in M guise (with M5 seats, which are stupidly thick on the e60) the e39 has significantly more passenger space (even more so with the euro dash). Mostly, though, the e60 interior is just goofy/shitty looking, imo.
Or, by quality, do you mean longevity? If so, I think you're basing your statement on neglected/abused cars. With a basic level of car (cleaning once a year, not smoking in the car, not rubbing rings on trim pieces), they're pretty bomb proof. E.g. My best friends M5 and my M5, both closer to 200,000 miles than 100,000 miles. Original parts, cleaned occasionally. Nothing replaced, the cars just aren't abused.
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