Its the 1000bhp shoot-out we've been waiting for - BMW's M5 versus ALPINA's B5 - let battle commence
the M5 is Sean Connery to the B5's Pierce Brosnan
and manages to hide a barely veiled thuggery behind
a veneer of golf club respectability
So which Five would sit in my garage? It's got
to be the B5. If you accept that probably about 95
per cent of the everyday driving we do isn't of the
balls-out maximum attack variety then the B5 just
makes so much more sense than the M5. For that
last five per cent the M5 is the better tool, but I'm
older and wiser than Holtam and would sacrifice that
five per cent for the brilliantly well-rounded charms
of the B5
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