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Around the Tracks: M5 generations, F1 overtakes, and Elon Musk

Plus, a look into union relations in the United States of America.


When we're not creating it ourselves, the CarAdvice team spends a lot of time finding and consuming motoring content from all over the world.

Here's a handful of the articles, videos and social media posts that most caught our eye last week. Some of them are brand-new, others have been online for a while.

Enjoy them – just not too much, okay?



M5 (E39) vs M5 (E60) vs M5 (F90) - Matt Bird, PistonHeads 

Bringing together the best BMW M5s of the last 20 years doesn't really require any justification. Because, well, no car has better defined or dominated the super saloon segment since the turn of the century, or indeed since the very first M5 arrived in the mid-1980s.


Dr. Elon and Mr. Musk: Life inside Tesla's production hell - Charles Duhigg, Wired

Tesla's struggles are well documented, but getting a proper look inside the company's operation is tricky. This feature explores life under Elon Musk, and looks at how a "thrilling and tumultuous" company is pushing toward mass production.


Ferraris, $37,500 Pens and Disney Tickets: How the FCA-UAW Corruption Scandal Gave Labor a Black Eye It Doesn't Need - Ryan Felton, Jalopnik

“Fat, dumb and happy.” That’s how convicted former Fiat Chrysler exec Alphons Lacobelli and Monica Morgan, the wife of former United Auto Workers Vice President General Holiefield, wanted to leave union officials feeling as a result of an illegal scheme they’d crafted that—according to the feds—involved using money from a worker training centre to support a lavish lifestyle.


Top 10 Overtakes of 2018 - Formula 1, YouTube

Formula 1 is done and dusted for 2018, as the drivers and their (new, in some cases) teams turn their focus to Albert Park. Here are some highlights from this year.


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