E28

It’s been 40 years since BMW launched the original M5, back when the M cars were largely hand-built. A new onboard video shows a pristine example of the flagship E28 stretching its legs on the…

The new M5 is making waves – big ones – for its hybrid powertrain, exciting new Touring variant, and perhaps most of all, its seemingly larger-than-life weight. That’s far from where the M5’s roots are,…

The Birth of the BMW E28 535i: From Dingolfing to the Open Road With all this talk of the first M5 being launched forty years ago this year (well, it was actually January 1985), the…

E28 BMW: A History of the Classic 5 Series When it was launched in 1981, most folks were surprised that the new BMW E28 5 Series looked like a facelifted E12. The 1972 E12 5…

The BMW 5 Series G30 is going out with a proverbial bang as the limited-run B5 GT is the most powerful car ever launched by the Buchloe-based brand. The niche automaker is celebrating the illustrious…

The Cars: VW Golf GTI and BMW 520i Looking through some old photos the other day, I chanced upon one taken in December 1982, just before Christmas, in fact. In the picture, we see not…

The new BMW Series is here, adding another generation to the long line of 5ers before it. Throughout the decades, there have been many excellent looking 5 Series. In fact, the 5 Series has been…

Car design in the 1980s took a bit of a radical turn. We saw incredible vehicles like the Ferrari F40, Lamborghini Countach, and the DeLorean DMC-12. But for BMW, the 1980s represented a bit of…

The E28 is among the most beautiful BMW sedans ever made but this is no ordinary second-generation 5 Series. It started out in life as a 1986 535i equipped with an M30 engine making about…

They say you should always respect your elders, and Graham, our hero of the day, did just that with his venerable BMW M5 from the E28 era. He originally bought the car in 1989 at…