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BMW Power · 03-19-2007, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Imhotep Evil

Now where that Brabus rocket to make it bite the dust ?!

Honestly what about brakes, suspensions, aeropackage ?!

whoa there, not so fast gentleman. I have been reading about this Car extensively on the M5board and there is an extremely long thread about the so-called 'Currency motors' and the people behind it. There have been several bad experiences with the owners of the above mentioned and apparently they have been having several problems with the TT M5. One of the directors of the company goes by the name "Osh" and is rumoured to have duped several ppl on the M5 board and messing up their cars furthermore rather then modifying them. His previous company goes by the name RMS motorsport. Just do a search on the M5board for "RMS" and you will see what i mean. There are countless threas explaining bad experiences encountered wit the 'Osh" character and his company. I however have no idea about how true the stories are as i have no personal experience whatsoever.....

Link: Twin Turbo M5 [Currency Motors] - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

klier · 03-19-2007, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vabboud

oddly enough i was expecting a much worse interior, seems the guy has an ounce of taste!

You call this taste Vab?

Kowalski · 03-19-2007, 10:04 PM

That interior is absolutely disgusting.

Give me the original M5 over this thing, at any day.

BMW Power · 03-20-2007, 04:11 AM

the best part is that of the 350K price tag, 100K is for pimping the interior....

100K!!? ***?

Mr. M · 03-20-2007, 04:31 AM

Oh my goodness... Terrible.

bmer · 03-20-2007, 09:02 AM

The steering wheel alone makes me puke. Another example that you can spend 350K on absolute rubbish.

monaroCountry · 03-20-2007, 10:20 PM

I really dont like the interior, poor crocs

too crocodile dundee for my liking. I would much prefer the OEM M5 interior.........

Excellent car with an excellent motor, BUT the modifications seems second rate. Definately not worth the asking price.

Compare Currency Motors mods to that of Australias own Street Tuna of LS1turbo fame (a much smaller operation with a far cheaper TT kit).

Currency Motors

Street Tuna's GenTTR kit

monaroCountry · 03-20-2007, 10:28 PM

BTW the engine pic I used was from a daily driven TT Holden VE. The GenTT costs around $7k here in australia and around $4-5k shipped to the US. The main benifit with this kit is that it cmplies with Australia's emission and sound etc rules as well as Californian rules. The car below has already achieved (???) a 10.5sec quarter mile pass with stock internals.

Again why is Currency Motor's TT kit for the BMW so expensive? I smell a con!!!!

SDNR · 03-20-2007, 10:32 PM

Looks great monaroCountry .....welcome to this forum by the way.

Kowalski · 03-20-2007, 10:35 PM

I really do like the Holden HSV models.

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