Does BMW's M5 Touring Miss the Mark?

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Leisure, Automotive

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Spike, Jonny, and Zuckerman review two BMW M5 Tourings while debating whether they're worthy of the M badge. Spike shares his unexpected modeling career for Nobleman Magazine, while Henry Catchpole from Hagerty joins to discuss his mind-bending experience driving the Porsche 963 RSP. All this and more in this week's episode of Spike's Car Radio! _____________________________________________________ 🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage Get 15% off plus free shipping with code SPIKE911 https://RaceDeck.com ⚡ Sonic Power - Cleaning Made Easy Powerful cordless mini vacuums, electric scrubbers, and more! https://a.co/d/farlqUL 📅 Odoo - Modern Management Made Simple All your business on one platform. Try it at https://www.odoo.com _____________________________________________________ In this episode of Spike's Car Radio, the hosts dive deep into the controversial BMW M5 Touring, with Spike expressing bewilderment at its disconnected driving experience despite its impressive specs, and Jonny declaring this more like a "M7" than another in the "M5" line. The crew also addresses listener feedback about last week's infamous "cupholder-gate", with some fans clearly reaching their limit on beverage containment analysis, and share a bizarre Florida Man news story that has to be heard to be believed. Later, Henry Catchpole joins to share his extraordinary experience piloting the Porsche 963 RSP, offering insights on its hand clutch, bump start procedure, and how it compares to other hypercars like the Aston Martin Valkyrie. Join Spike and the team for upcoming live show at Pebble Beach! https://theconcoursstore.com/products/2025ccf-spike-car-radio _____________________________________________________ Produced by Skyview Entertainment & Q6 Media https://q6.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on Spike's Car Radio, we have two, Count them two, BMW M5 touring, a green one and a blue one.
0:06.2	And we're going to tell you what we think of them.
0:08.0	I think they suck.
0:13.3	All right, welcome Spike's Car Radio.
0:15.2	As I said earlier, we have two BMW M5 tourings, two, count them two.
0:20.3	We're both going to do dueling reviews I'm
0:22.3	very excited to talk to you about this because this car is bewildering and I won't we won't get
0:27.2	into it we won't get into it now but did BMW remember how Porsche gave us the 9-11 GTSs
0:33.0	together the opposite this is the opposite we had to fight so motor trend we're doing a video on this car and the Audi RS6.
0:41.4	And BMW, for whatever reason, I wasn't involved.
0:45.4	I'm a freelancer now.
0:46.4	They didn't want to give us the car.
0:47.8	We had to fight for it.
0:49.0	Right.
0:49.1	And then you texted me and said, like basically like I don't,
0:54.6	you said,
0:55.0	I'm perplexed by this car.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:56.9	And,
0:57.5	but we'll get into that.
0:58.3	Yeah,
0:58.5	yeah,
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