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      01-04-2024, 04:39 AM   #1
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i5 M60 full M Performance Carbon Fiber Kit Install Video

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We borrowed the i5 M60 from BMW Park Lane to do driving review, and before we gave it back we decided to fit the full M Performance kit to see what the car would start to look like modified.

What do you think of the M Performance kit? Next up for us I think we'd have liked to have lowered the car down a little to close that arch gap!
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I should have waited and watched his video.
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What do you think of the M Performance kit?
I'd rather have some black parts wrapped the same color as the car. Fire red.
But I'm also older.
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nice vid Matt
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      01-04-2024, 11:35 AM   #5
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Does the performance kit actually improve the performance or is it just eye candy?
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      01-04-2024, 01:28 PM   #6
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looks really good.

interesting that this car has the updated grille sensor cover.
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      01-04-2024, 03:59 PM   #7
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Does the performance kit actually improve the performance or is it just eye candy?
These should help improve the down force a bit, which is to say handling will improve at the expense of range. That said, I think most people will get these for the eye candy factor
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Does the performance kit actually improve the performance or is it just eye candy?
Like 0.1% improvement? 😅

Eye candy though is at least 15+%
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I'd rather have some black parts wrapped the same color as the car. Fire red.
But I'm also older.
I'd also like to see what it would look like if someone wrapped the rocker covers and lower bumper trims with a different color than the car, along the lines of the E34 M5. I think a red or blue car with silver rockers/bumper trim would look sharp.

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I like the kit… makes the i5 look more aggressive. I would probably choose a different color for the i5 altogether though.
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OMG

Oh, mercy me. Lipstick on a pig.
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looks really good.

interesting that this car has the updated grille sensor cover.
I wonder if we can get the updated cover installed on delivered i5 M60s
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Oh, mercy me. Lipstick on a pig.
Never ceases to amaze me why people take the time to be so negative. It is just a car after all.
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Never ceases to amaze me why people take the time to be so negative. It is just a car after all.
Unfortunately happens every time a G60 post hits the front page.
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These should help improve the down force a bit, which is to say handling will improve at the expense of range. That said, I think most people will get these for the eye candy factor
You're def gonna feel that improved downforce on your daily commutes. .


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Unfortunately happens every time a G60 post hits the front page.
That's saying something ........

Also, can we please stop talking about HP? I know it's one way to measure cars but where the FVCK are you going to use that? Serious. On all season tires no less. /rant
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Meh… black carbon on black plastic.
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Sweet looking car. Thanks for the pictures!
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Car looks nice for a luxury/"Family Car with kids" on a road trip with the added equipment to increase speed. However, give the car back to BMW Park Lane the way they loaned you the car.
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That's saying something ........

Also, can we please stop talking about HP? I know it's one way to measure cars but where the FVCK are you going to use that? Serious. On all season tires no less. /rant
Amazingly these AWD EVs still get stellar acceleration on A/S tires.
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