Solo Highlight | Christian’s BMW M5 Competition

Christian’s BMW M5 Competition combines the F90 sedan’s performance character with a personal selection of exterior, cabin, and exhaust upgrades. This archived Solo Motorsports feature highlights his GW Carbon rear diffuser, front lip, and paddle shifters, together with an IPE sport exhaust.

The project shows how an owner can give an existing performance car a more individual finish without changing the purpose of the car. The carbon pieces and exhaust are the documented modifications in this feature. The video provides another look at Christian’s M5 and the details that distinguish it from a standard example.

Christian’s F90 M5 Project

That’s right. The McLaren F1, that has 627 horsepower raging out of its naturally-aspirated BMW V12 has a challenger. This magnificent M5 ONLY has slightly fewer horsepower. In fact, just two horsepowers less.

This sledgehammer turbo BMW M5 is different, its special. BMW didn’t just turn up the turbos on a laptop and slap a “Competition” badge on this thing. They’ve done all sorts of little, nerdy awesome things to make it all the most a M5 can be.

These little tweaks enables the M5 to launch to 60 mph in only 3.3 seconds – 0.3 seconds fast than a regular M5, and just 0.2 seconds slower than the godlike McLaren F1. Normally, people don’t notice such a difference, but the discerning M5 owner, most certainly will. 

BMW left no stone unturned with this Competition package. Upgraded suspension, rear anti roll bar, 10% stiffer coils all around + to top it off: shorter auxiliary springs that fluctuate wheel loads, as does the unique tuning of the damper hydraulics.

Onto of all this awesomeness our great client Christian carved out his M5 out of his own personal tastes. This M5 is now equipped with a lovely rear diffuser, shifter paddles and a sexy front lip all from GW Carbon, and to top it all off this car here was one of the first F90 M5’s christened with an Sport Exhaust from IPE Exhausts 

Bravo. 

Planning Your BMW M5 Competition Project

Tell our team which parts are already installed and what you want to improve. We can discuss suitable BMW performance services and help you plan the next steps. Contact Solo Motorsports about your M5, or watch Christian’s BMW M5 Competition video for a closer look at this archived build.