BMW M5 Competition Rental in Los Angeles
The white BMW M5 Competition with the ivory white interior is based in Los Angeles. It is the sleeper, a 617 hp V8 sedan that seats 5 and reads as an executive car at the valet until it leaves. Book it for the multi-stop day, the airport run that turns into a canyon run, the groom who wants speed without spectacle. Book it for delivery in Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
How It Drives
Start it from the key before you open the door. The 4.4L twin-turbo V8 settles to a deep idle you hear from across the lot, and that is the last loud thing it does until you ask. In Comfort it is a 5 Series, the 8-speed automatic shuffling gently, the cabin quiet, the brake pedal in its softer mode. The ride is firm even here. Then a clear on-ramp. 617 hp and 553 lb-ft from 1,800 rpm through all-wheel drive, 3.1 seconds to 60 with 4 people aboard. The sensation is mass being thrown, not a light car being quick. Its element is the freeway. Point it up the 101 and the 134 toward Pasadena with the family in the back, then take Angeles Crest on a weekday for the sightlines, not the speed.
How It Photographs
White over ivory is the clean spec, and it photographs as expensive rather than fast. In direct sun the white flares, so shoot it in the golden hour when the body picks up warm light and the black wheels read as the only dark parts. In open shade the ivory cabin glows through the glass. After dark white still shows, so a lit hotel entrance works. The frame to take is the rear three-quarter at sunset. The close detail is the ivory rear bench with the dark belts. These photos were shot in a hotel plaza at sunset. In Los Angeles, shoot it in the drive of the Beverly Wilshire or on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica.
Why This One
We run 2 M5s and this is the only white one and the only one based in Los Angeles. The other is black over brown in Orange County at the same $595. Black is the invisible M5. White over ivory is the one that reads as money at the valet stand on the Sunset Strip and still carries 4 adults and their bags. If the brief is a family, luggage and 617 hp starting in Los Angeles, nothing else in the lineup does all 3 at this rate.
What's On This One
This is the M5 Competition, the updated car with the slimmer daytime running lights, the larger grille and the 12.3 inch centre screen. The Competition brings 617 hp from the 4.4L twin-turbo V8, 553 lb-ft, all-wheel drive with a rear-drive mode, the sport exhaust, firmer dampers, black trim and badges, and 20 inch wheels. The body is white with gloss black wheels and the quad tailpipes. Inside it is ivory white leather on the M multifunction seats with the illuminated M logo, an ivory rear bench with dark seat belts, and carbon fibre trim around the gear selector and the iDrive controller. 4 doors, 5 seats, a 14 cubic foot trunk.
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