Road and Driver

You may have noticed, I’ve been quite obsessed with Google’s street view as of late. Tonight, I was browsing the streets of London and wanted to look at a hotel I once stayed at. After finding the Sheraton Park Tower in Knightsbridge, I see a gaggle of high end sports cars parked in front. One being this, a very rare Lumma BMW M5 CLR 500 RS.

Lumma is a German tuning company based in the Swabia region of Germany. They’re known for some really wild BMW creations. As you can see, this is no wallflower. Ironically, there was a video posted to YouTube last year (shown below) showing the exact same car, parked in the exact same spot. The video shows the Lumma M5 cruising the streets of London along with a few static shots.

The 2007 Lumma M5 CLR 500 RS features a noticable body kit, screaming orange paint-job, upgraded exhaust and many power upgrades boosting it’s horsepower from 507hp to 560hp.

Turns out this car originally hails from Dubai. As Google is supposed to block out car’s license plates, this one obviously was overlooked. Luckily they left it visable, as it reads “666.”

Source: YouTube and Google Maps

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