After 50 years, we asked for a straight-up vote. Thousands of you answered the call.
The runner-up in our poll wrote the rulebook for performance cars for years. While the E34 M5 was fabulous car with a fabulous engine, Vauxhall blew it out the water in performance terms when it got Lotus to 'tweak' the Carlton. Well, that wouldn't do. So BMW took the E39 5 series - itself one of the best-engineered BMWs of all time - and used it as the basis for the third-gen M5. It arrived in 1998 and everything about it was pretty much perfect.
Such massive performance in a rear-wheel-drive saloon could've been a recipe for ditch-finding disaster, but for a car that could bang off 62mph from rest in 4.8 seconds and climb to around 190mph, the E39 M5 was a pussycat. You didn't need to fear switching off the traction control because it was so beautifully balanced and broke away so progressively.
As ever, it is useful to point out that any standout performance car's myth is built on sturdy foundations. The standard E46 M3 is at third place for very good reason, and much that is exemplary about that car underpins its most famous variant. Nevertheless, it's clear that the CSL was a statement of intent for M GmbH.
The objective signalled by the rubber upgrade was hotly pursued in the chassis overhaul. Hardware changes abounded: firmer, shorter springs, different rate dampers, thicker anti-roll bars, tougher bushes - all of it swapped in purely for the business of doing quicker, better. The cherry on top was the tickled 3.2-litre straight-six with its reprofiled camshafts, larger diameter inlet manifold and air-sucking carbon fibre intake.
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