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BMW M5 E60 Ring Taxi Nurburgring Kyosho 1:18

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BMW M5 E60 Ring Taxi Nurburgring Kyosho 1:18 08593RT Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast BMW M5 E60 recreates the factory Ring Taxi, the V10 saloon BMW used to give passenger laps around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Finished in the taxi's promotional graphics rather than a standard M5 colour, this Factory Specials release pairs the E60's high-revving S85 V10 with livery rarely seen away from the circuit gates. A distinctive companion to more conventional M5 diecast, built for collectors after genuine motorsport-adjacent provenance on the shelf.
BMW M5 E60 Ring Taxi Nurburgring Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
BMW
Model Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08593RT
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About the BMW M5 E60 Ring Taxi Nurburgring Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast BMW M5 E60 reproduces the factory Ring Taxi, the promotional-liveried saloon BMW used for Nürburgring Nordschleife passenger laps. Built around the E60's 5.0-litre S85 V10, this Factory Specials release swaps standard M5 paint for taxi graphics, giving collectors a distinctive alternative to the usual saloon colourways.

Factory specials rarely reach the cabinet in the exact livery they wore on duty, which makes this one worth a second look. Kyosho treats the Ring Taxi as a genuine subject in its own right rather than a reskin of the standard M5.

Kyosho's Ring Taxi Livery in 1:18 Diecast

The graphics are the whole point of this release, and Kyosho lays them out cleanly across the bonnet, doors and boot lid, with the sponsor and taxi branding registered tightly against the body's shut lines. Diecast construction at this scale typically permits opening doors and bonnet, and the zinc alloy body gives the model real heft in the hand, a weight that sealed resin cannot match. Paint depth under direct light shows the base colour holding its tone evenly across every panel, which matters on a livery this busy, since any inconsistency would show immediately. The wheels and interior trim pick out the saloon's sportier detailing rather than a generic four-door treatment, keeping the model honest to a car built for hard driving rather than boulevard cruising.

The S85 V10 Behind the E60 M5

BMW built the E60 M5 around a 5.0-litre S85 V10, a naturally aspirated engine developed with input from the firm's Formula One programme and paired with a seven-speed SMG sequential gearbox rather than a conventional manual. It revved to roughly 8,250rpm, an unusual figure for a production saloon of its size, and delivered over 500 horsepower without turbocharging, at a time when most rivals were already moving toward blown engines. That combination of high-revving character and saloon practicality is precisely why BMW chose the M5 as its Ring Taxi rather than the smaller M3, and Kyosho's model carries the correct proportions of that decision, a four-door body with genuine performance intent rather than a badge exercise.

BMW's Ring Taxi Programme at the Nürburgring

BMW used liveried M5s and M3s to give journalists, customers and competition winners a passenger lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife, driven by professional instructors at a pace few owners would attempt alone. The programme became familiar to British audiences partly through motoring television coverage of the circuit and its most famous lap times, which brought Nürburgring passenger-lap culture into UK living rooms long before many collectors had seen the Ring Taxi in person. That crossover between promotional tool and cult object is part of what makes this livery worth collecting rather than simply owning another M5 in another colour.

A Factory Special Among Standard M5 Liveries

Against a standard-colour E60 M5 diecast, this Ring Taxi edition trades quiet saloon presence for a livery with a documented job to do, and that distinction is exactly what a Factory Specials shelf is built around. It sits comfortably alongside other liveried BMW performance models rather than needing a theme of its own, and at roughly 22 centimetres long in 1:18 it holds its own next to sports coupés without dominating a mixed-era cabinet. Collectors chasing a complete run of BMW motorsport-adjacent liveries will find this one earns its place through the story printed on its panels.

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