---
title: "Vintage BMW 5-Series Getaway Car Begets Meltdown"
description: "With his crew’s bank heist in progress, a wheelman goes to pieces and murders his E28 sedan."
date: "2015-12-14"
modified: "2015-12-14"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/1451/vintage-bmw-5-series-getaway-car-begets-meltdown"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "5 Series"
  - "BMW"
  - "luxury"
  - "sedan"
  - "vintage"
---

# Vintage BMW 5-Series Getaway Car Begets Meltdown

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Every decent heist deserves a decent getaway car. Barry Newman [had a Dodge Challenger](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z6Cj-1HkbI>), Michael Caine a [fleet of Mini Coopers](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWkewqIFDM>). In this short film from British director Olly Williams, the wheelman has an E28 BMW 5-Series, an immaculate example in olive metallic paint with Euro cloth interior. He’s waiting outside a bank, bathing in tension, when a fly starts buzzing around the cabin. Things escalate quickly.

Our driver’s nervousness quickly descends into fury and, eventually, a complete and total mental breakdown. The mirror is smashed, an airbag deploys. And then he pulls out a shotgun. There’s some kind of darkly humorous message here about guilt and violence and consequences. But, mostly, it’s five minutes of some poor fool engaging in a titanic struggle with his vintage BMW. It’s okay to laugh. And cringe.

https://youtube.com/embed/-p\_69PZ0OkI

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