Preston BMW

First unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor show back in 1984, the BMW M5 is a high-performance version of the BMW 5-Series executive car built by the luxury automaker's Motorsport division. At the time of its introduction, it was the fastest production car in the world. Needless to say, it quickly became a pillar of the BMW brand and subsequent versions have been built from each generation of the 5-Series platform (i.e., the E34…

Last summer, BMW teased the world with a sneak peek of the Megacity EV designed especially for the urban driver. Expected to go on sale sometime in 2013, the imminent EV is BMW's first zero-emission all-electric regular series production vehicle.

The BMW Megacity EV will be made of a cutting-edge carbon-fiber/plastic composite material to offset the usual weight that accompanies an electric vehicle's battery pack. To ensure that every available unit of…