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You know the drill. The monthly magazines are provided with an early scoop on a new launch, so that they can prepare their front-page layouts and ensure the car maker's promised-child appears prominently in their next issue. Then in fear of being gazumped by another magazine, the said monthly decides to leak a few images on the interweb, thus earning them oodles of backlinks and saving at least £10k in search marketing costs.

BMW's new F10 5-Series has been out for just over a year, and whilst its a worthy and very capable executive saloon, the model we've all been waiting for is the M5 - traditionally the fastest car in BMW's line-up.

BMW's new F10-based 5 series will be unveiled tonight.