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For 30 years, the BMW 5 has become a classic of the genre. Like a song about the nibelungs, Fuga Bach or Cologne Cathedral. He wanted, loved, respected and there was time! They were even afraid. The era ... no more than that car. There is an unrecognizably new one. In appearance, the last two generations have five in common than Vinnitsa and Nice, Fugi and Fugan. We tried to understand: does the king die or long live the king?Being next to her is the same as diving into the pool with a giant sea killer. You feel the inhuman power of the silver body with your skin. In the view of the view of emotions, it seems that no interest in you is noticeable. But you know that this look will remain just as indifferent during an instant throw with a lifted mouth, after which a pink cloud will scold in the water. The impeccably streamlined, hidden-musical, cold Lord of the ocean spaces. He was so millennia ago and practically did not change why? It is invincible ... /self -citrate /. So it seemed seven years ago after the first tests of the new BMW 5 E39. It seemed that it would always be so. However, the American Bangle laid a decisive end to many years of evolution. We will not break new copies around the guise of a former shark. Someone loves sausages, and someone is rap. Although if you send a new five to the nearby, but the past century, there it would definitely be recognized as a 21st century by a car. The old one is unlikely. And one more thing: do you remember the names of the previous BMW designers? And Banglla no longer forget anyone. Cooking eight tires from the asphalt of the Avtodrome, we were not going to find out with whose face it is more handy to drink water. Did the Akulia machine save the temperament? Or has the prayers of breeding breeders turned into a remedy for the cut of American grandmothers? Here is is the Question!
The battle point E39 of the Kaliningrad assembly goes into the battle. Clutch coating resembles wet city asphalt. The steering wheel is inside out, the gas until the control of the instantly interfering electronics we roll in a circle at the pace of the disabled person lying on the crutches. DSC OFF! Then the powerful rear -wheel drive on the basic tires scatters before us all the diamonds of its sky. To make the trunk bypass the hood on the turn is easier: only delayed with the adjustment of the drift or abruptly bypass with gas. But, if the trained reflexes do not fail, a beautiful fan turn in sliding can be expanded into all 360 degrees! The snake, the rearrangement is similar: if you abandon the help of the DSC, the ease of the decisive struggle with deep skidding is needed more pioneer. For which we appreciated the five. You can’t love your friends. But if you can ...
The brand new E60, not paying any attention to the accelerator pedal pressed to the floor, with the equanimity of the compass writes a circle at a safe speed by the merit of a cunning electronics. The blow to the DSC button has almost nothing changed, only the time on the circle has slightly improved. Yeah, electronics are still watching: we are simply allowed to set slightly (see insert). A long press on the button, a yellow light flashes on the speedometer alone with iron. But even now, the drift has to provoke the front wheels slip out of turn, without waiting for the arrival of the rear! The new five credo is not dust from under the walking tail, but a precision signing of turns. This chassis is ready to go very quickly, but does not guarantee accompanying external special effects. Thanks to the aluminum nose who was burning on the centner? Perfect weight? Or a special care for a front -wheel drive driver who does not know how to ride a classic? Although, of course, the tires here are completely different: the new one stubbornly sticks to the road with wide low -profile rollers of different dimensions in front and behind ... And yet it seemed that safety was not the last priority when setting up a new chassis. Although sports is the back of the same medal. After all, sliding along the asphalt moves away the ring rider from the awards. And a competent pilot will be able to achieve the rear axle to disrupting the rear axle and on the new car the truth, on such moves that the illiterate simply will not be decided.
But the latter will be comforted by the option of the active steering wheel, depending on the speed, the number of speeds of the steering wheel from the stop to the stop changes: when parking times, and ready; The same time on the autobahn ... and did not clean, but only moved a little. This steering wheel also helps DSC to fight with a skid, independently arguing the wheels in the right direction! By the way, it works correctly and delicately. Athletes, however, is an unpredictable steering wheel for nothing of their honed reflexes and instincts. And wives, children and American grandmothers of helping are happy to be afraid of the Bavarian shark ...
And this is perhaps the main result of the confrontation of the old and new. The level of political correctness in a large -scale auto world is growing steadily and this is a fact that cannot be dismissed from. The predator from Munich became more manual or, rather, less predatory, and the technology of collars and muzzles made another jump forward. And yet, in order to dive into the pool with a shark, courage, dexterity and faith are still needed in your strength. Even if you know exactly that the predator has recently fed.
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The DSC dynamic stabilization system with the ASC+T traction subsystem was also installed on the previous model. Separate wheels and gas resetting, it helps to keep the car on the trajectory in a bend and avoid slipping, imitating the differential blocking. And I want to click the button and only God to help. However, on the new car, traction control has become dynamic (DTC). It allows and naughty under the care of a vigilant nanny. A poke in the DSC shutdown button only moves away the electronics intervention can start with axle boxes or go through a turn in an aggressive manner. But slipping is allowed only at speeds up to 70 km/h or transverse acceleration to 0.4 g. The threshold of termination of pampering is also adapted to the state of the coating: we analyze the leaps and skidding. As soon as the DSC considers them excessive, it will return to the usual mode while the car, slowing down, will not again be in the DTC powers. And to cut off the electronics completely, you need to press the button for a few seconds.
Text Vitaly Tishchenko photo Alexander Nozdrin
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