Styling is less offensive than recent BMW’s. I’d buy a CT5 Blackwing still and have plenty spare cash left over.
Not to mention the option of a manual.
1,000%, I'm sure that the M5 will be extremely fast but the weight and complexity makes me not interested in the least (regardless of if it had a manual or not).
What's funny is that it isn't even necessarily that fast. I mean sure, it's objectively very fast, but so is the current M5.
When the 2021 M5 came out BMW quoted a 0-60 time of 3.1 for the Competition model and a top speed of 189 MPH.
For the 2025 model BMW is quoting 3.4 seconds to sixty and a 190 MPH top speed.
So all that extra power is entirely negated and then some by the nearly 1200 pound weight increase.