The high driving position, over-firm, angular seats ... The E39 was the best-selling M5 up to this point, with over 20,000 built. It was also the first M5 to be produced on the regular BMW ...

To point out everyone is, in fact, wrong. Possibly – perish the thought – the E39 generation BMW M5 isn’t the greatest super saloon of all time. Never meet your heroes and all that.

For the 1999 model year, a BMW 5 Series Wagon was added to the United States line-up. A 394-horsepower BMW M5 sedan based on the E39 platform was brought stateside in 2000 propelled by a 5.0-liter V-8 ...