Is the BMW E39 M5 the perfect car for a Utah desert road trip? 

@@jamesmay6950 you've just watched a video of a guy driving an M5 and then pitching up a tent, and to answer your question yes, it's far better than driving on brilliant roads in a van.

Wow, it made the trip. A car that drives... Does the doors work too or are they just for show?

Who’s Alex?

@@MrJosephbelfihe is the guy in that video. He runs the company named glen shelly

I echo all you stated. I have had much less interactions with him but I concur. He's a very honest and trustworthy guy. Love this series he is doing.

When ever i drive other brand cars then i know better how e39 is far better and good....in Afghanistan.

6:19 I blew a front tire on M5 E39 on Highway 24 between Hanksville and Goblin Valley. The hard sidewalls of the run-flat Dunlop SP1's, combined with massive heat, extremely coarse asphalt and triple digits on all sensors.. the combo heated the tire and the tire started disintegrating on the edge of the sidewall and thread. It was 102F, no spare and the aux fan was dead, so AC only works while driving.. with no phone signal.. sitting in middle of desert and laughing that "now we screwed up!" Best place on earth to blow a tire. No passing cars in any direction for over 1 hour. We decided we must do something so we limped back on a partially disintegrated run flat tire to Hanksville to get signal, about 15 miles @ 20mph. 10:44 is same spot we called from 9AM to 3PM searching for a tire. My AAA membership had ended 2 days earlier (normal "when it rains it pours" occurrence). Closest new tire was in Provo, Utah at 187 miles distance. Found a used 245/40/18 tire in Moab, Utah @ 107 mile distance. The tow truck was $900. So we decided to limp for 107 miles to Moab on a broken run-flat. The closer we get, the cheaper the tow truck becomes. The guys at the tire shop said "You will never make it"... but eventually we made it and as we drove over the 'bump' of the sidewalk at the tire shop the tire sidewalls completely fell apart and the thread section came off the sidwalls,. The shop had to put a jack with wheels to push the car for the last 30 feet into the service bay. We stayed in Moab for the night and next day continued our search for heavy mining equipment for the yet to-be gold mine.

WHOA - HE ACTUALLY WENT OFFROADING! Okay, I'm going to confess - I've done some of my best dirt-tracking in my M5, and some of my best urban 'performance' manoeuvring in my Pajero iO. Likewise, I've done my best posing in my Asics Gel Kayano 16 and my best jogging in my leather dress shoes. Life just works out that way ...