The new BMW M5 is a product of its time - and the times, well, they couldn’t be better.
So you could imagine my shock and horror when a smartly dressed Portuguese policeman asked me to pull over. I could not have been speeding, could I?
I glanced over nervously at my passenger, who happened to be Hormazd Sorabjee, the storied editor of Autocar India, who said a quick “Nah”, before rummaging in the glove compartment for all sorts of papers. Was there anything wrong, I asked the policeman? After he went through the papers, my license and a very useful letter written in Portuguese by the folks at BMW AG, explaining what we were doing, he calmly told me that there was nothing wrong - but how was the car?
I was still in a bit of shock, so I let Hormazd do the talking. It was utterly brilliant, he said. “And fast?” the policeman asked? Without skipping a beat, Hormazd said “Very, but we drove fast around the track at Estoril, not on your public roads.” The policeman kindly guided us back into traffic, and I started the short drive back to Estoril.
This story is from the January 2018 edition of Man's World.
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