[MUSIC PLAYING]
CARLOS LAGO: You may as well think of these two
as sports cars.
They have sports car power, they have sports car performance,
and they deliver sports car thrills.
MARK TAKAHASHI: And they have luxury badges,
which means they're refined, comfortable,
and really expensive.
CARLOS LAGO: Not only that, they have four seats and trunks,
so you could fit a whole family in there.
So when it comes to super sedans,
few do it better than the Mercedes-Benz E63 S and the BMW
M5.
It's almost a wonder they don't come with capes that
can billow along in this wind.
MARK TAKAHASHI: I see what you did there.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
When it comes to hardware, they're remarkably similar.
Both use twin turbo V8 engines with 600 horsepower,
automatic transmissions, and all-wheel drive.
The Benz has three more horsepower and one extra gear
in its transmission.
We have the difficult task of demonstrating just
how capable these cars are.
And we'll do that in two ways.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
All right.
In order to do launch control, you
have to have a drive-ready state done.
Activate stability control.
Hold and press.
Off.
I have to be in Manual mode, so.
Select first gear and map the brake pedal, and then floor it.
[ENGINE REVVING]
There it is.
Now I'm ready to go.
We'll see what happens next.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
CARLOS LAGO: In order to do launch control in the E63,
I have this printout, laminated printout,
here that Mercedes supplied.
And it looks like it's been translated poorly from German.
To start, door must be closed and driving seat belt
has to be closed.
Vehicle has to stand.
OK.
What we care about is putting the car in Drive,
using this toggle here to put it in Race,
pushing the brake pedal with my left foot,
pushing the gas petal with my right foot.
And that should be it for launch control.
We got it.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MARK TAKAHASHI: Hold, please.
I think I'm not in the right mode.
CARLOS LAGO: Performance anxiety?
MARK TAKAHASHI: Shut up!
I think I'm ready.
Driver's ready?
Three, two, one, go.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I did not get launch control on that.
CARLOS LAGO: All aboard.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MARK TAKAHASHI: So that launch, that sent up
a bunch of different things.
Damage detected, and also it freaked out the tire pressure
monitors.
CARLOS LAGO: We know the M5 is the faster
car because we've already done acceleration
testing on these two.
We're just trying to film a drag race now.
But the problem is, the M5's launch control
system is a bit temperamental.
So Mark's back there saying nice things to it
and hoping to calm it down so we can film this drag race.
And I'm just hanging out here.
Mark, how much time you got left?
MARK TAKAHASHI: Shut up, Carlos.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
CARLOS LAGO: Are you done saying sweet nothings to Mr. M5 there?
MARK TAKAHASHI: I think we came to an agreement.
Driver's ready?
Three, two, one, go.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[ENGINES ROARING]
CARLOS LAGO: Mark, how'd that feel?
MARK TAKAHASHI: [INAUDIBLE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Next up, we'll use the low-friction surface
at the Edmunds' test track.
Here, the polished concrete and tight corners
simulate what it's like to drive on a slippery road.
CARLOS LAGO: These are monstrously quick cars,
thanks to the amount of power they have
and their very clever all-wheel drive systems.
But of course, going fast in a straight line is the easy part.
You turn on launch control, mash the gas, and go.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Very true.
It takes a lot more finesse to go sideways.
And thanks to the fact you can disable all-wheel drive
and go rear-wheel-only, these go sideways really
well thanks to fun buttons.
CARLOS LAGO: Fun buttons!
MARK TAKAHASHI: We like fun buttons.
CARLOS LAGO: Yeah.
Fun buttons.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
So what we're gonna do in this E63
is I'm gonna put it in Race mode.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Up, up, down, down.
CARLOS LAGO: Yep.
Left, right.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Left, right.
CARLOS LAGO: AB?
MARK TAKAHASHI: BA.
CARLOS LAGO: BA?
MARK TAKAHASHI: BA start.
CARLOS LAGO: Select start.
Anybody born later than '90 is gonna
have no idea what we're talking about.
MARK TAKAHASHI: True.
CARLOS LAGO: So what about both shift paddles.
Drift mode is active.
What that's gonna do is it's gonna make this all-wheel drive
car rear-wheel drive.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Impress me.
Nice.
God, that's fun.
All day, every day.
[LAUGHING]
And it's doing it so beautifully and gracefully.
I'm not been tossed around while you're doing this.
Oh, nice clip.
CARLOS LAGO: When you have 600 horsepower,
you can be pretty lazy.
MARK TAKAHASHI: This is true.
I mean, you're just barely breathing into the throttle.
CARLOS LAGO: Oh, this is beautiful.
And what I love is that you can do this stuff,
then put it back in all-wheel-drive mode,
and then it's a perfectly civilized luxury sedan again.
I can do this all day.
MARK TAKAHASHI: We're going to do this all day.
CARLOS LAGO: Uh, how much film do
we have left in these cameras?
MARK TAKAHASHI: Who cares?
[LAUGHING]
Yeah, I mean, a car with this kind of range,
as far as how much we can get the giggles,
yet still take it out for a lovely night out
and be refined and wear a suit.
CARLOS LAGO: What I love is you can be a dignified gentleman
driving a Mercedes-Benz.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Like [INAUDIBLE]..
CARLOS LAGO: But then when you want
to channel your inner 18-year-old
with his first Mustang.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Yes.
Oh, this is ridiculous.
CARLOS LAGO: This is terrific.
I think next, though, we have to see what the BMW does.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MARK TAKAHASHI: So the differences, they're
negligible.
Really, truly.
The key is, though, with your whole NORAD
launch-the-missiles thing to get it into two-wheel drive,
eh, it's not so much here.
I just hit M2 once, hit M2 twice, and we're there.
CARLOS LAGO: But this car has two pre-programmable drive mode
buttons, like radio station presets.
So you say, like, I want four-wheel drive,
I want Sport Plus steering, I want this, this, this.
That's M1.
You set and hold it like a radio preset.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Yeah.
CARLOS LAGO: But then you can have M2 as, like--
MARK TAKAHASHI: This mode.
CARLOS LAGO: --you know, horny teenager mode
who wants to show off to his friends.
And that's the mode we're in.
It feels appropriate.
MARK TAKAHASHI: And you know what?
It's fun.
It does it just as well as the Benz,
even though it's down quite a bit
on torque compared to the Benz.
CARLOS LAGO: Sure.
MARK TAKAHASHI: I mean, the Benz, you probably
don't have to pedal it nearly as much as I'm doing it right now.
CARLOS LAGO: You know, it's moments
like this where I feel like I need a little massage.
So I'm gonna turn on the passenger seat massage.
So I've got the seat ventilation on.
I've got my massage on whole-body activation.
And I've got all this happening.
MARK TAKAHASHI: Do you want me to play some Enya for ya?
[LAUGHING]
CARLOS LAGO: This is a 4300-pound sedan.
The Benz is a 4500-pound sedan.
MARK TAKAHASHI: But man, does it feel small and light right now.
I really love the engineers that they gave us these modes.
CARLOS LAGO: And there's probably,
you know, a tenth of a percentage out there,
small fraction of a percent of people
who are actually gonna do this.
But the fact that it's in the car means so much.
MARK TAKAHASHI: I think we got enough.
What do you think?
CARLOS LAGO: Never.
[LAUGHING]
Well done.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
We've drifted these, we've drag-raced them.
We've spent a couple hundred miles just commuting in them.
What's the best super sedan of these two?
MARK TAKAHASHI: M5.
CARLOS LAGO: Why's that?
MARK TAKAHASHI: I would go for the M5
because it's more comfortable.
It has a better ride quality.
I like the seats.
I like that shade of blue.
The infotainment is easier to use.
And I get a massage.
CARLOS LAGO: See, I'll accept that the M5 is the faster car.
That's because it's the lighter car.
But I like driving the Mercedes more.
I think it looks better, I think it sounds better,
and it gives me the luxury sport sedan experience
that I'm looking for.
So the question is now, how do we actually
decide between the two?
MARK TAKAHASHI: Top speed.
CARLOS LAGO: OK.
MARK TAKAHASHI: I top out at 189 miles an hour.
What's yours?
CARLOS LAGO: 186.
MARK TAKAHASHI: I win.
CARLOS LAGO: By a small difference.
That means a lot.
And I'm glad you bring this up, because I've
done the math on this.
And if you were to drive from the BMW factory in Munich
to the Mercedes factory in Stuttgart--
about 144 miles-- if you were to race these two
cars at full speed, the BMW would get to the factory
44 seconds before the Mercedes.
MARK TAKAHASHI: What can you do in 44 seconds?
CARLOS LAGO: Clearly not an outro.
MARK TAKAHASHI: No.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
CARLOS LAGO: If you liked what you saw,
keep it tuned right here.
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information on the E63, M5, and all of its competition.
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