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Heads Auctions stand at the Annual Service event at Bicester Overview An M badge on the back of a BMW has always stirred the souls of car fans ever since the M1, which subsequently led to the very first motorsport-inspired 5 series back in 1980 – the E12 M535i.

And we're talking proper M cars here by the way, not merely those badged as such, but that's for a whole other rant.

The first true M5, however, was the E28 that debuted in '84 and it birthed the entire super saloon movement that has been much copied ever since.

But it was BMW that will always be remembered as the progenitors of supercar-bothering executive whips.

The M5 is still going great guns today and it remains an incredibly capable and ridiculously fast machine, but for a lot of classic car fans ...