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mirrors (w/o mirrors not given).  A 2006 M5 has a width of 72.7" without
mirrors, and 80.2" with mirrors.

But perspective is a totally different animal.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of 
> pkrasusky at ups.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:32 PM
> To: t44tqtro at gmail.com
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] BAM!
> 
> 
> No...  it's certainly not as wide (on paper IIRC mine's +8" - boy do I
> seem to hear that all the time I do).  
>  
> But, it's stature is *so* damn friggin TALL it literally 
> towers over my
> car.  On paper it's not as long either, but it sure looks it side to
> side.  Same wheelbase!  And the width of mine somehow gets 
> absorbed next
> to the thing.  Mostly it's due to the things high waistline.  
> 
> Agreed, "pedestrian" E60s don't look big.  Something about the flares
> and spoilers and 19's on the thing, or something and stuff and things.
> I think.
>  
> I defy you to tell me that 2nd pic thar doesn't f'n diminutivizify
> Alumibitch.  Tellin' ya - its UNCANNY.
>  
> Ponderifying the thing again last night, see alot of Mazda 3 in the
> greenhouse lines.  And a lot of Mitsopizzo Evo in the hood/fender
> stance.  Weird.  It's definitely overstyled, but it somehow works on
> that car - at least in that color.  Them confounded tail lights, man,
> from a side profile next to my car you realize exactly how far they
> stretch down the side of the car.  Blech.
>  
> -Paul tellin it like he seez it K.
>  
> 
> 
>   _____  
> 
> 	From: Taka Mizutani [mailto:t44tqtro at gmail.com] 
> 	Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:06 PM
> 	To: Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
> 	Cc: scarsgo at gmail.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
> 	Subject: Re: [s-cars] BAM!
> 	
> 	
> 	It's not as wide is it?
> 	
> 	I see E60 5 series on the road all the time and they don't look
> particularly large. I think they're a fair bit smaller than the C6 A6,
> which is about as long as a SWB A8 (D3) but narrower. 
> 	
> 	The D3 A8 is pretty wide. From what I can remember, D2s are
> pretty wide, too.
> 	
> 	Taka
> 	
> 	
> 	
> 	On 4/12/07, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote: 
> 
> 		Dooood...  TOTALLY!!!!  A perspective better seen in
> this one a bit 
> 		further back
> http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/86747/s8__m5_rear_2.jpg
> 		really.  It f'n DWARFS my f'n car!!!
> 		
> 		That was (part of) the source of all my "WTF" about it
> during my write 
> 		up.  It's farquing HUMONGOUS - and one of the veryfew
> cars that can make
> 		a D2 look downright small.  Like an A4 almost.
> 		
> 
> 
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