Used Car of the Day: 2002 BMW M5 Dinan S
Dinan is a big name for BMWs, and so today we bring you a 2002 BMW M5 Dinan S.
It's on its third owner and has 225,000 miles on the odometer. The tires are new and there's an X-pipe installed.
The seller says the car has been well-maintained and is in good shape but the suspension components and engine and trans mounts are worn.
The seller also has a long list of spare parts available.
The asking price is $19,000 and you can click here to see this California-based car here.
[Images: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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I want a recent X5 Diesel. Is this stupid?
Those were the glory years of BMW, with three very beautiful designs, from the 1999-05 3 series, the 1997-2003 5 series (which was actually a rather small car, much closer in size to the 3 than to the Magnificent 7, which I was very lucky to enjoy a stunning example from 2005 to 2017 (a 98 740iL).
The M5 had a modest (by today's standards) 394 HP and the Dinan (I had to look it up, neither Tim nor the Seller bothered to tell us even the most important spec) 470, a healthy rise, but still lower than the standard V10 M5 that followed this model, an ugly exterior M5 that is not very popular today, unless it has the Manual.
About this ridiculous "find": If it was a pampered Flagship Lexus LS460 from 2007-2016, with the same 200+k miles, I'd take a risk. NOT if it is a BMW, and an M5 in particular.
It is really not worth the aggravation and the possibly HUGE cost of the expected and inevitable repairs.
Do you think Tim is a Masochist? He seems attracted to these way overpriced money pits like flies are to excrement.
But even if he is, WHY in the WORLD does he think WE are, and keeps WASTING OUR TIME with his daily, invariably LAUGHABLE "recommendations"?