Convertible M5
 

My daughter's 16th birthday is coming up and she decided that she wants an M5. So we went looking and next thing I knew she wants it in yellow (yes I know WTF yellow?), but o.k., it's easy enough to get it painted. But, what is going to be 'difficult' is customizing it to a convertible.

Are M5's sold anywhere in the world as a convertible? If so, can it be ordered in the U.S.? I've never seen one so I'm really at a loss here. I've called a couple of places that customize cars that say it's no problem for them to do the work, however, I'd like to go the special order route if possible. Any ideas???

An m5 seems overkill for a 16 year old girl.. Maybe a nice 530.

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We told each child that they had thier choice of cars once they are able to drive. The CEO and I are not willing to go back on our word. M5 overkill? Not sure, but a 530 would not even come close as an alternative.

You realize the M5 is a four door right...

Yes, we know the M5 is a four door. What does that have to do with anything? Four door converts use to be common place in the U.S. and better engineering makes it 'easy' to do now, just not a common desire anymore. Anyway, many good custom shops do this type of thing. Doesen't seem like I'm going to get a lot of help here, so custom shop here I come.

Regardless of ability to puchase such a machine, there is no such thing as a 16 year old who should be driving an M5 - or any other excessively powerful car. Did you just take out a huge life ins. policy on her and her friends? I think you're just asking for trouble....

Nowhere are they offered as convertible. But the M6 is.

My 2 cents; As a father, interested in safety of my kids, I would not buy a M5 or M6 for a 16 year old no matter how much money I have. I have seen tons of pics in last year of M5/M6/lambos/ ferraris totalled and where the occupants lost their lives.

I would start with a 530 or 540 and send the kid to Performance driving school. What do they say - learn to walk before you run.;)

ASC does custom conversions like you're looking for, but I'm raising the :bsflag: on this thread.

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Thanks LeMans. She actually will be attending the performance driving school in addition to 'regular' drivers ed. Any car is/can be a weapon and I've seen all sorts of pics of the accidents. My CEO did her residency in an emergency room and we know all to well the dangers of driving any car.

A teen was recently killed driving a Honda Civic at estimated 102mph on a canyon road. Personally I don't feel the likelihood of poor driving and decisions escalate with a car. But I respect your and everyone else’s opinion.

I don't care how many driving schools you go to, at 16 you do not have the "behind the wheel" experience. An M5 is too much car for some people twice that age.
On a side note, a yellow convertible M5 won't have much of a resale value. The conversion needs to be really well too, that's a lot of structure being removed. Is there some type of roll-over protection that can be installed?
In regards to that 102MPH Civic crash....the M5 can get out from under you a lot quicker than most Civics.
In regards to the driving school, I don't know your kids so this may not be true, but how many 16 year olds actually pay full attention while driving, especially if they're with friends?
Way too many issues to consider for me to be comfortable handing the keys of an M5 over to my 16 year old.
I agree that a lower 5 series would be a better start.
But, that's just my .02. Either way, your kids have great parents to even make the offer....

Glad your Daughter is going to "dodge'EmCar" school and hope
she drives safely; getting through the first few years, behind
the wheel, is the toughest part...

as for the M5 Cabrio Conversion, maybe a high safety rated
Japanese build sedan instead, a big donation to a "local" fave charity
with the "diff", and a lecture on real life, for your D.

But, your dough and daughter.
GL,mD

Something doesn't go around here. Why would your daughter even want a M5? If she wants it yellow and she wants it convertible then she obviously doesn't "get" what the M5 is all about. Sounds like any other yellow convertible would equally fit the bill.

I wonder how many of her friends parents would let their kids ride with her. I know I wouldn't let my daughter ride with a 16 year old driving a M5. Hell, I probably wouldn't let her ride with any 16 year old unaccompanied by an adult regardless of the vehicle. My 0.02.

:rofl: HAHA..Its like the f*@#in' Gong Show around here!...An ///M anything is a lot of car for a 16 year old...But its your loot I guess...:dunno:

Porky sez...

Don't hold back JV - tell us what you really think :rofl:

Ok then!

By 'used to be' I assume you mean 1961. Hmmm, 45 years ago. Were you buying cars then? I thought that the Lincoln was the last one, and it was by no means common-place. You could go back to the thirties, and Duesenberg, if you like. They weren't common-place either, though. Sure you don't mean four seater, not four door?

It would be much easier to do it now if cars had ladder frames, like they did in 1961. Guess you could get a custom shop to install one under an M5. May need a V12 to haul around all the extra weight, though.

So, the idea is ludicrous, as is the idea of a 16 year old driving an M5, no matter how much money her parents want to spend on her whims, and how many performance driving schools she attends.

So, I am with several of the above posters.

:bsflag:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That Lincoln is p-h-a-t!! I wonder if I could get my hands on one of those for my 7-year old..:dunno: Three phone books and a couple of bricks and she'll be fine....

I'm getting my 6 year old a Harley if she passes grade 1. :nanana:

hey i just strapped a GE jet engine on my 7 year old god-son's Big Wheel, you should see the look on that little bastard's face when that engine lights up! WHOOOOHWEEEEEE! brings a smile to my face every time....

This is probably one of the most ridiculous threads I've ever seen on here.

More power to you if you want to spend the money. I hope she is a safe and careful driver. Please let me know when she leaves the house with the keys so that I can safely secure all of my friends and family off of the roads.

yikes.

Wow I've heard a lot of crazy sh!t but this takes the cake. Not only are you going to destroy a M5 by trying to turn it into a convertible but on top of that your going to paint it yellow? If you are considering this hack job on a beutiful piece of machinery dont forget the 22' spinners and neon underglow kit to really make it as tasteless as possible. Just think after she wrecks this you can get her a gold plated Ferrari lolololol

Wait A Minute All Of You!!!

If the man wants his 16 year old to :driver: a customized M5 who are we to judge the man. All I can say is when he gets it done let's all encourage him to post pictures. I'm sure none of us would miss the opportunity to see the final product. :loco: as we might think it is, lacking in common sense is better than the movies these days. So lets get involved and encourage nupe10123 to go for it. After all if it is the most "full of it", hard to believe, let alone comprehend post, ever submitted as it was stated we are gonna have one heck of a time laughing at him. nupe10123! Go for it. We are all waiting for you to put up.;)

I have 2 daughters and they would both be grounded for life if they ever suggested desecrating an M5 by PAINTING IT YELLOW or by requesting that it be chopped up into a CONVERTIBLE! Why don't you just buy her a McLaren F1 and have it converted into a limo with a hot tub.

LOL.. just slap a M5 badge on a miata or something and call it a day.. BTW.. please stop asking stupid questions..

so let me get this straight.. so you're buying a brand new 100K car, repainting it, and then chopping the top off it and compromising the structure of car and voiding all the warranty off it all for a 16yo?? I hope your wife doesn't charge you to get your head examined. :confused:

the chassic aint gonna hold. torsional rigidity would be siginificant compromised making it a death trap. You might as well buy your own set of jaws of life cuz she's be dead in less 15 days driving that thing.

I know that, you know that, we all know that. But the entertainment value is letting someone else find it out at his own expense while we watch. ;)

They used to be commonplace... And then safety happened...

You heard the man. Lets find him a shop that will do it. Believe me the wife will be the least of his worries.

Nothing. Go for it. I can't wait.

I'm in your corner. When ya gonna start??

For the sake that you are serious it can be done. If you truly have the cash to purchase the car for you 16 year old, I'm certain if you simply ask your bmw dealer who might be able to transform it, they'll know of someone. You do live in LA, there are shops a plenty that can do some amazing things with any vehicle. Take a picture of the car or a pile of sh!t, whichever is appropriate.:thumbup:

This is too much fun. Haven't found a custom M5 conversion shop yet (!!) but here is a joint in Florida that is cutting up perfectly good Chrysler 300s. Structural integrity is negotiable. I bet they would do one in yellow. Four doors even. And if you like, you could put an M5 badge on the back. Tell her that Daimler Benz got tired of owning Chrysler, sold it to BMW, and this is an early production model. She will have the only one at school.

If you don't like the Chrysler, they will cut the roof off a four-door Cadillac DTS for you. So many choices.

We are here to help.

http://www.coachbuildersltd.com/chrysler.html

If money is not an object, then contact Fisker coachbuild and they will make you a custom BMW M5 convertible - a state of art unique M5 of it kind in the world.

This is what he did with the BMW 6-series.
http://www.germancarfans.com/photos/...6.001/1014.jpg

Then of course there is always this. ;)

This post is definatley bullshit

Just another SPOILED kid

Meow!

Uh oh...

Wow. Tough crowd here.

Maybe Nupe Dog is serious. And maybe he does have the coinage to blow on his little princess. There is no accounting for good taste, common sense, and the laws of science.
The coming of age daughter wants a yellow M5 convertible. CEO is telling Nupe to get it done. I guess the man card must have gotten lost a long time ago.

There are some simple facts that the daughter obviously does not understand besides the fact that a yellow M5 convertible is a pipe dream. Even if she got a bone stock run of the mill M5 (sorry Josh), there is hell to pay for a 16 year old adolescent, especially in this great metropolis known as the City of the Angels.

It's more like the city of the carjackers, jealous vandals, and regular old thieves. Unless you're willing to pay the price, you don't put your kid in a threatening situation in this town. Somebody will want to separate your daughter from her $100,000 car.

Take it from a dad who has 3 teenagers growing up in the city of L.A. You are buying your daughter an image that others will judge her by. Some will take exception to this image. She is friggin' 16 years old - not 20. She can't fend for herself yet. Unless you have Kato (the Green Hornet Kato, not Caelin) driving her around, I sure as hell wouldn't do it.

Everybody wants to see the picture of the convertible M5. What I don't want to see is an obituary.

LOL!! And you say "we're" tough?! :rofl:

Nupe! U R in luck! I am having an 07, fly yellow, convert M5 shipped from Germany but I am to big for it. Want it? I need you to meet me by the Brooklyn Bridge..........

LOL @ Man card.. ouch!! :rofl:

.......Ahhh, good times and great advice.......

I wonder what the status of this project is today? A yellow M5 convertible for a 16 year old? He needs to let us know what he is smoking because that stuff sure as hell doesn't miss its effect.

I can't wait for the new post were he is telling us that his daughter wants to get married but that she wants a 70 year old she male with acne and lots of wrinkled skin starting from the neck up and 3 giant boobs. Shouldn't be a problem these days, plenty of plastic surgeons around to fix that. Right? Money can buy everything.

This thread immediately came to mind when I read about the kids in the M5 that got killed due to the immaturity of the driver. Just because you could give your kid an M5 doesn't mean you should.

I hope she's happy and safe in whatever car she got.

So this was posted a year plus ago, wonder what came of it....

Ahhh... very interesting and funny re-read :)

I read somewhere that he ended up buying the 3-series instead for his daughter.

:iagree: way too much for a 16yr old. She will have it destroyed in 3 months!! Damn, I should have read all the way through this stupid post before I replied!!

Entertaining thread to say the least!

A 530 would not even come close as an alternative and he ended up buying her a 3-series. I bet that completely ruined her MTV Sweet 16 birthday party.

She should have asked for something a little more common, like a lime-green, 2-door, convertible X5.

I feel bad for her future husband.

This is one funny azz thread:rofl: ...I just hate that all of you smart, responsible, safety minded people, ran Nupe10123 off . Shame on all of you.....Admins, please :huddle and ban all of them for being rational, and insensitive to childs dream:thumbup: ......Phil

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

This has got to be the biggest waste of time and worst thread on x5world. hahaha thanks for the laugh

Interesting thread...Can someone do photochop of what the girl was asking for???