According to fresh reports out of Munich, the next-gen BMW M5 will be a lighter, higher horsepower, all-wheel drive luxury rocket ship. The 2017 M5 is expected to get a lighter chassis and a 40 HP bump, which will put it at 600 HP.

Franciscus van Meel, head of BMW ‘M’ Division is quoted: “If we continue the power increases in the future… then the next generation M5 and M6 will have so much torque and power that we need to think about those solutions.” This really makes perfect sense. The Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG went 4Matic, and that put two of the three cars competing cars in the AWD column.

In our opinion, the reality is that Cadillac has really become an engineering problem for BMW, and for the ‘M’ cars to have any hope to put down decent 0-60 numbers, well, they have no option really. As diehard Americans who bleed red, white and blue, we’ll take the new Cadillac CTS-V any day of the week.