A BMW M5 Wagon Was Used To Test The McLaren F1's V12

An E34 M5 Touring was the vehicle of choice to stretch the legs of the McLaren F1-powering S70/2 engine, it's emerged
A BMW M5 Wagon Was Used To Test The McLaren F1's V12

The E34 M5 Touring is already one of the biggest M Division heroes in BMW’s history, but it turns out there’s an ultimate version of this ultimate hot wagon.

Here’s the background blurb. When Gordon Murray started working on the legendary and record-breaking McLaren F1 (below) he turned to BMW for help, with engineering boffin Paul Rosche, answering the Brit’s call.

BMW were to supply an engine dubbed S70/2 to Murray and his team. As you probably know, it was a 6.1-litre V12 good for 618bhp and 479lb ft of torque.

A BMW M5 Wagon Was Used To Test The McLaren F1's V12

Of course, turning an idea into a working day model requires test mules, which is where the E34 BMW M5 Touring model - and McLaren’s road car director, David Clark - enter the equation.

At least one test vehicle, which is unlikely to ever see the light of day, is still under BMW’s guardianship, according to Clark, who recently told motoring hack and BBC Top Gear presenter Chris Harris on the Collecting Cars podcast that he had sampled the V12 Beemer from the driver’s seat.

Clark described the car as “an outrageous thing” which, going by the raw stats, we couldn’t have summarised better ourselves.

Source: Collecting Cars via Motor Authority

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Hugh Jazz

Definitely the world’s fastest mom-mobile

07/11/2019 - 13:32 |
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Dutchdirtbiker

Ultimate bmw dad-wagon

07/11/2019 - 13:42 |
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slevo beavo

All this talk about the engine but no talk about the amazing and clever gearbox made by wiessman

07/11/2019 - 14:04 |
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That was probably not testet in a M5 Touring tho…

07/12/2019 - 00:20 |
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Weismann, not Wiessman / Wiesmann.

07/12/2019 - 04:31 |
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A BMW M5 Wagon Was Used To Test The McLaren F1's V12
TheCuttingboard

Monty4248You have no power against Ron

07/11/2019 - 15:22 |
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Anonymous

That’s crazier than willy wonka

07/11/2019 - 16:16 |
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Anonymous

So that “one test vehicle” is basicly worth thousands of dollars, and its under BMW’s guardianship, it has the McLaren engine under the bonnet ffs.. is this the holy grail for all BMW fans ?

07/11/2019 - 18:22 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It’s a BMW V12 so naturally they used one of their existing cars to test their motor that they built for the McLaren F1

07/11/2019 - 19:22 |
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imagine just how badass it would be to own an e34 wagon with the legendary supersayan v12 from the f1

07/11/2019 - 23:17 |
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also reminded me of that terminator mustang that had a V10 (which sounds amazing)

07/11/2019 - 23:18 |
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ferrarman11

In reply to by ......

Fun fact: if I’m not mistaken and if we are talking about the same car, that mustang actually hit sixty in 1.8 seconds!

07/12/2019 - 04:37 |
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Kuba Vt

bet that epic mullet and mustache helps significantly to make the McLaren better during development

11/15/2019 - 13:55 |
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