The American automotive mantra of bigger is better has been a mainstay of the industry since the heyday of Detroit. The more cubic inches crammed under the hood the faster the car and so on and so forth. The very fact that the engineers at German automaker BMW have trimmed back the 2011 motor on the M5 seems to be a step in the wrong direction. Conventional thought tells us here in the States that smaller cannot be better. Boy do we have a lot to learn.

Scaling back the M5′s 5.0 liter V-8 must have been hard. The flagship of the BMW fleet, the M5 is billed as Read the rest of this entry »