The e60 M5 is border line when they stopped being "drivers" cars and became more mainstream and everyone started being able to buy them. Still a great car but with even higher maintenance costs.
I guess I loved the e39 M5 because it was a drivers car. You cant drive stick? Sorry, you have to either learn or you wont be driving this car because there's no other transmission option. It has 2 buttons, Traction control on and traction control completely off. Sport mode on, sport mode off. That's it, and I loved it. It was also one of the best behaved cars to get slidewayz, almost drove itself while sliding around.
But the V10 sounds amazing with an exhaust too.