Analog or Digital | Assess and Caress with Donald Osborne | Jay Leno's Garage
By Jay Leno's Garage
Analog or digital. Donald Osborne brings two very comfortable, very fast four-door sedans from two different eras to the Garage: a 1988 BMW M5 (E28) and a 2020 Mercedes-Maybach S560 4MATIC, both on loan from the Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport, Rhode Island. The M5 was built by BMW's Motorsport division in limited numbers, with a manual gearbox and four-wheel disc brakes, at a time when you couldn't get a big, comfortable sedan with a stick in America. Jay calls today's Cadillac Blackwing its spiritual successor, and Donald brings up the M5 rival almost nobody remembers: the Ferrari-powe…