---
title: "Watch a Doorless BMW M5 Bomb Through Rome for Mission: Impossible 7"
description: "It's kind of like a Jeep, but with a 617-horsepower, twin-turbo V8."
date: "2020-10-12"
modified: "2020-10-13"
authors:
  - name: "Máté Petrány"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/mate-petrany"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/37011/watch-a-doorless-bmw-m5-bomb-through-rome-for-mission-impossible-7"
categories:
  - "BMW News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "BMW"
  - "BMW M5"
  - "camera car"
  - "luxury"
  - "M5"
  - "Mission Impossible 7"
  - "rome"
  - "sedan"
  - "sports car"
  - "tom cruise"
---

# Watch a Doorless BMW M5 Bomb Through Rome for Mission: Impossible 7

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The *Bayerische Motoren Werke* has been paying for a lot of the action captured for Tom Cruise's *Mission: Impossible* franchise ever since teaming up for the production of 2011's *Ghost Protocol*, the fourth Ethan Hunt saga. The deal continued for *Rogue Nation*

[and *Fallout* as well](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/21464/tom-cruise-drives-a-591-hp-bmw-m5-in-mission-impossible-fallout>), and now, it's time for *Mission: Impossible 7* to trash a fleet of BMWs for our continued entertainment. We already saw Tom Cruise himself [complete an insane bike jump off a massive ramp](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36259/this-wild-cliffside-ramp-is-real-watch-tom-cruise-jump-a-dirt-bike-off-it-for-mi7>) in Norway, and the latest spy shots from Rome confirm that the action continues on four wheels, sometimes with no doors in sight.

As spotted by *SupercarsNews*, the filming crew uses not only a black M5 sans its doors as the hero car but also plenty of police cars, motorcycles and an armored truck, all chased by [camera cars based on the Nissan GT-R](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/32113/nissan-uses-this-sweet-gt-r-to-film-other-nissan-gt-rs>) and [first-generation Porsche Cayenne](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/29584/did-you-know-the-first-porsche-cayenne-had-a-rear-mounted-spare-tire>). Both models are known to be popular choices for filming, yet we can't help but feel that Ethan Hunt should be chased [by this 200,000-mile E39 BMW M5 camera rig](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/34757/meet-the-200000-mile-bmw-m5-camera-car-built-to-chase-ferraris>).

https://youtube.com/embed/9cslXIcHPQU

According to [Italian newspaper *La Repubblica*](<https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/10/08/news/roma_ii_set_di_cruise_a_pochi_metri_dall_ascensore_per_il_covid-269847059/>), Team Tom Cruise caused quite a stir during its seven days of Italian production shared between Rome and Venice, as one of their locations happened to be in Policlinico Umberto I, Italy's second-largest public hospital. With the extras, security, filming crews and all other members of the production walking in and out of the facility during the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital workers union started a protest against the whole situation. Apparently, a scene was set up in a large room used by the hospital's management.

That *Mission: Impossible* week in Italy included a crew of 180, nearly a thousand extras and a cool $41 million in expenses. To get a direct return on its investment, BMW has already announced 5 Series and M5 Mission Impossible editions for the Japanese market. From what I can tell, these are some very black BMWs indeed, both inside and out.

![message-editor%2F1602505834404-bmw-5-series-and-m5-mission-impossible-edition.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602505834404-bmw-5-series-and-m5-mission-impossible-edition.jpg>)
**BMW**

In case you don't quite remember the earlier flicks, here's BMW's contribution to *Ghost Protocol...*

![message-editor%2F1602504116790-p90079738\_highres\_bmw-vision-efficient.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602504116790-p90079738_highres_bmw-vision-efficient.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509338147-p90088004\_highres\_-mission-impossible-.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509338147-p90088004_highres_-mission-impossible-.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602504197223-p90079739\_highres\_bmw-vision-efficient.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602504197223-p90079739_highres_bmw-vision-efficient.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509360364-p90088005\_highres\_-mission-impossible-.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509360364-p90088005_highres_-mission-impossible-.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509421954-p90088007\_highres\_-mission-impossible-.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509421954-p90088007_highres_-mission-impossible-.jpg>)
*BMW*

...2015's *Rogue Nation*...

![message-editor%2F1602509638854-p90177608\_highres\_the-bmw-m3-in-missio.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509638854-p90177608_highres_the-bmw-m3-in-missio.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509712197-p90191398\_highres\_ethan-hunt-tom-cruis.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509712197-p90191398_highres_ethan-hunt-tom-cruis.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509660153-p90177609\_highres\_the-bmw-m3-in-missio.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509660153-p90177609_highres_the-bmw-m3-in-missio.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509695590-p90191397\_highres\_rebecca-ferguson-wit.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509695590-p90191397_highres_rebecca-ferguson-wit.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509747478-p90191405\_highres\_ethan-hunt-tom-cruis.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509747478-p90191405_highres_ethan-hunt-tom-cruis.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509726739-p90191403\_highres\_rebecca-ferguson-wit.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509726739-p90191403_highres_rebecca-ferguson-wit.jpg>)
*BMW*

...and the sixth movie, *MI: Fallout:*

![message-editor%2F1602509791723-p90307956\_highres\_mission-impossible-f.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509791723-p90307956_highres_mission-impossible-f.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509806533-p90307957\_highres\_mission-impossible-f.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509806533-p90307957_highres_mission-impossible-f.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509821347-p90307955\_highres\_mission-impossible-f.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509821347-p90307955_highres_mission-impossible-f.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509849483-p90307954\_highres\_mission-impossible-f.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509849483-p90307954_highres_mission-impossible-f.jpg>)
*BMW*

![message-editor%2F1602509863597-p90318168\_highres\_on-display-until-end.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1602509863597-p90318168_highres_on-display-until-end.jpg>)
*BMW*

If all goes well, no classic BMWs will get hurt in the next chapter. However, in case Tom Cruise wishes to modify the front of [the 2021 M3 and M4](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36611/the-2021-bmw-m3-and-m4-better-be-amazing-to-drive-because-damn>) models by perhaps crashing into some baddies, we're all in for that action. Meanwhile, [James Bond's latest Aston Martin DB5s](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/32378/we-drove-the-carbon-fiber-stick-shift-aston-martin-db5-stunt-car-from-no-time-to-die>) are actually based on E46 BMW M3s. Fictional secret agents and BMW—in love since 1995's *GoldenEye,* the Bond movie named after Ian Fleming's proposed WW2 operation shelved in 1943.

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*h/t:* [*Motor1*](<https://www.motor1.com/news/448350/doorless-bmw-m5-mission-impossible/>)

## Author
As a fan of old cars, new cars, trains, planes, buses, and you-name-it, Máté can sometimes be seen driving an Autobianchi around Budapest, much to the amusement of the children, mostly. When not time-traveling, he continues to report from the future to his American colleagues, often talking about Lotus, Ozzy Osbourne, or both.

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