Today's Nice Price or No Dice 540i M-Sport is touted by its seller as the perfect "poor man's M5." We'll have to see about that, as well as just how poor you could be and still afford the car.

The perfect recipe for a sports sedan looks something like this: 300+ horsepower from a naturally aspirated engine, 50/50 weight distribution, excellent steering feel and precision, a rigid chassis, ...

It’s a shame searching on eBay and looking at the prices some people ask for a decent car. It’s also a shame when you think back of how these cars were perceived back when they were brand new. Nobody ...

BMW's identity in the United States is inextricably linked to the now ubiquitous 3 Series, itself rooted in the heritage of the 2002. The larger 5 Series, however, is the lifeblood of Munich's the ...

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Produced between 1998 and 2003, the E39 is the first M5 with a V8 under the hood. Back in October 2009, as part of the 25th anniversary of the M5, the Bavarian automaker published a few pictures of ...

Following our original post that only had three photos of the E39 540i, we discovered today that the listing has been updated with a plethora of images showing the car from every angle. See for ...

Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

I’ll be the first to admit that I like absolutely ridiculous cars. If you swap something ridiculous into it, slam it on the ground, or give it so much power that you can’t drive it – I am a fan. But ...

Pulling the engine out of an E39 5-Series for the sake of an LS2 V8 will definitely make some purists cringe but for the rest of us, this sweet wagon sounds like the next best thing to an E39 M5 if ...