While I own a P88 and generally like how it shoots, I never really took a shine to the P5's looks (I suppose I could say the same about the P88 as well, but since I actually bought that one... ). Something about how its disparate parts and shapes comes together, I guess. A not quite beautiful mess. But now that I see this thread and look at the gun with slightly older eyes, I sort of wish that I hadn't been quite so aesthetically judgmental and picked one of the two or three that I passed on over the past decade. Oh well; maybe in my next lifetime.