Test drive BMW 5 series E60 2003 - 2007 sedan
A powerful bunch
The most obvious test comparison comparison of the models of a large German three. Moreover, best of the average, most characteristic, business class. And in addition with the most forced engines. Have you already flowed in saliva? The models are all new, inconspicuous, after which most motorists turn their heads and watches a long, coveted gaze. So, meet: Audi A6 4.2 Quattro, BMW 545i, and ... no, not Mercedes E 500! And the latest Chrysler 300C, made on the Eshki platform! And that the comparison is quite correct, and the motor on the European American is 5.7 liters.Like it or not, the cars are clean exclusive. These models come across often, but you can hardly find them in such a rich configuration. I'm talking about BMW and Audi. But the cosmic appearance of the three hundredth is all without exception, from the pioneer to the pensioner, they take for the last Bentley model. The reason for this is brutal shapes and a large -eating radiator grille. Yes, 300C will not be confused with anyone. And the drive, of course, is the rear. And the Hemi engine at low speeds to save gasoline disconnects four out of eight cylinders. The car was created with the active participation of German engineers, but is produced at the factory in Canada in the same place as its predecessor 300m. This handsome man costs quite acceptable money about $ 70,000 in a fully packaged version. Audi is more than $ 95,000 more and more expensive. And the VMW with a 4.4-liter engine is glorified by its true Aryan origin, without an impurity of the East Prem, Koenigsgrad assembly. I’m not sure that this is an object for pride, because the assembly plant Autotor is famous for the highest control in production, but the people who lay the stoller for prestige usually distinguish their own view of things.
The dynamics, in principle, it would be correct to write that the dynamics of all three cars are sufficient. And perhaps even excess. If you constantly put pressure on the whole shutter you kill. And if this does not succeed (after all, high passive safety, including a whole pile of pillows), then cripple others and tear your iron. After all, the laws of physics are not canceled only due to effective brakes. Yes, and here they became a little in front of the five, for example, the entire muzzle is aluminum, and the sixth hood and wings. No one forces you to use the dynamic potential at 100% when starting from each traffic light. It’s even somehow unsolvable when an expensive stylish car fusses and twitches in an attempt to prove to others and to himself that it is the coolest. So there is a random person behind the wheel. To evaluate and truly try such a serious technique in the condition of only one who, in the past, already had, albeit not the same, but close in characteristics of the car. From the total power (for three over 1000 liters. S.), God forbid, use half. And then you need a head. But in order.
The 545th starts vigorously and swiftly along the backwood. In this regard, the car remained faithful to Bavarian traditions. Acceleration can be called frantic, but controlled. A little less gas is pressed by a millimeter, and the revolutions grow a little slower. If in general, the definition can slowly be applied to the most powerful five. It is amazing with what speed transfers in the automatic transmission are climbing. The pace of their change is manifested in barely noticeable jackets, but in order to avoid them, it would be necessary to slightly sink switching and worsen the best dynamic characteristic among competitors. It should be borne in mind that in the VMW sensation of speed, it is noticeably concealed due to amazing, supernatural sound insulation. At low speeds, up to about 2500, the engine is not heard at all, as well as there are no slightest vibrations. But even with an increase in revolutions (which occurs on a time scale almost immediately), the car makes sounds exactly half as much as you expect from it. And, looking at the speedometer, you constantly think that the car is flattering itself. You feel 140 km/h, and you are already flying according to the instruments. By the way, you can see the digital speed value on the windshield directly above the visor of the instrument panel. He will project him there so that the driver is less distracted from the road, a special device for a torpedo.
A6 has an engine of the same power, but there are more masses of BMW slightly behind the BMW with a parallel start, four leading. But it makes noise much more, which, in general, is perceived for granted. On A6 with a 4.2 liter engine, there are almost no joints between transmissions (practically as with a multitronic box) and acceleration occurs on almost one note. Powerful, expressive shots forward in each gear are interspersed here with rather lethargic switching, which is weakly knitted with the character of the Avtoban devourer. Greatly helps out the transfer of the box to position S. The car seems to receive a second wind and is held in the range of 4,0005,000 revolutions. And the box, oriented to the driver mode, is in no hurry to switch to lower gears, as is the case in mode D. Another enviable advantage of the Audi Quattro stability of the position over the road. You will not wait for neither acceleration, nor when braking or squatting.
The accelerated features of the American-German hybrid Chrysler 300C are also a complex, but slaughter cocktail. Mix, but do not shake! The most powerful, bass -rustic motor of the most generous of the entire trinity of 5.7 liters gives three hundred acceleration of the torpedo released from the side of the American destroyer. A heavy car and accelerates in a special way inevitably and confidently. But he will also have to catch the brakes. And this turns out much easier than one could assume. Amazingly, the two -ton Chrysler besieges two times faster than expected! The reason is visible with the naked eye of giant actuators are clearly visible through the cast wheels of the wheels. Each time, as soon as the moment of switching the transmission comes, you recall that the hand of the European designer seriously worked with the chassis of the Mercedesovskaya! And this means that all transitions are smooth, clear, correct and frisky. So it is 300C came out sharp and daring, which corresponds to its aggressive and self -confident image.
The controllability of all three expensive, modern and perfect cars runs out perfectly and irregularities are good. Perfect. Dot? On this, it would be possible to complete the description of the three hits of the business class of the first decade of the 21st century. If not the differences and the nuances that make each model in some ways (against the background of other competitors) are successful. A6 by behavior, perhaps the most famous model. After all, her habits are not too different from the well -known six previous generations (as well as four and eights) with all -wheel drive. Quattro it is in Africa Quattro. Unless the new A6 has a slightly less pronounced feedback. A light, empty steering wheel and quick, accurate reactions create strange, incomprehensible sensations that you get used to during the first day. Then comes the understanding of why Audi experts set such a characteristic of controllability to their central, shock product. The dominant sensation of driving on a-six remains smooth. Smoothness, smoothness of movements. But if you overcome the threshold of speed and, in particular, the threshold of your own fears and uncertainty, then you begin to control the car with a sharp, fast, sometimes balancing on the verge of a foul. And at the same time, not only not passing the forbidden features, but also protecting the driver’s nerves and prompting the right moves and decisions. A6 is quite smoothly shifted by the entire body in the event of excessive speed, and even the disconnected system of exchange rate stability does not strangle her song too quickly. And it is also easily drawn into the previous trajectory almost without correcting the steering wheel only to drop gas on a drop.
BMW in the back of E60. Moreover, with the most powerful V8 in 333 forces. Exactly half of the devilish figure. Yes, a particle of the line in us ... About the 545th it was worth writing not that a treatise, but certainly a whole brochure, this car is so different from everything else. In a nutshell you can’t describe. What is at least active steering. The pioneer of use in a mass car of a similar system, BMW, put all competitors, including our two tests, in the position of outsiders. It is worth only once to ride on the new five, and the rest of the technique will seem fresh and archaic. To say that on the 545th sharp steering wheel to say nothing. It was on the last E39 model there was a sharp steering wheel, the most accurate among competitors, a high, driver. It seemed better not to come up with. But progress, it turns out, does not stand still: E60 erected previous advantages in a square! On models with a powerful engine, the connection of the steering wheel with the front wheels has two degrees of progressiveness. Even in place, with small angles of rotation, the acuity is normal, and with large increased. So, a rake with a variable step. It became quite easy to park you can’t even catch your hands. From the edge to the edge of 1.8 turns! And with an increase in speed, the steering wheel is somewhat dull, facilitating the active entrance to any turn. And how the car is thrown into the right direction, even leads to thought about otherworldly power, helping not only the movement of the hands, but also the thought of the driver. And there is a dangerous illusion that a powerful car that performs all maneuvers with the ease and accuracy of circus acrobat will forgive all liberties and fulfill any desire. You can pierce this great. Because from under control it comes out later than expected, but suddenly and unconditionally. And sticking to the previous position that has gone into the skid 545th becomes problematic. Although for a calm ride there is a sensitive stabilization system, but it can also be misleading with your sudden impulses. From the point of view of smoothness, BMW 5 is inferior to both Audi A6 and 300C. Finding the relief will not allow you to relax on an uneven road, although it does not reach the breaks. But did they create a Bavarian masterpiece for such a ride?
If you do not pay attention to the SHRISLER 300C salon in the motion, then it seems periodically that you are in the Mercedes of the E-class. Their behavior seems to be thanks to a borrowed design of suspensions, although the elements of aluminum, and not from steel, are on Eshka. The main thing in the five -meter colossus has a completely unexpected ease of maneuver. Although, as befits true Yankees, a large thin bagel has to be twisted easily, for a long time and without a visible change in force. But if you come to terms with the laws of the genre, you begin to enjoy how this cruiser literally dances on the road under your team. No, we have not seen such Americans for a long time! Yes, because all of them have been made in front -wheel drive for twenty -five years. Make fools to pray to God, so they are the whole auto industry, including full -sized flagships, will transfer to a progressive layout. And in Europe and in Japan, it is not for nothing that representative sedans are made according to the classical scheme. Yes, the Alliance with the Daimler-Benza benefited Chrysler. The half-decking child has incorporated the most successful genetic material collected in decades. It affects how a five -meter giant twists the front wheels to the side in a steep bend. It is from his mother who carefully speak German designers. And he swallows road joints, just like a father, overseas relatives are touched. But the rollerity, such as the grandfather, he, Gott Sei Dank, did not inherit the Aryan breed. And so to infinity. And here there will be no mutual reproaches only dignity, multiplied by dignity. Or maybe the future is really the mixing of rocks and races?
The resume in a difficult situation is the author, forced to award the best of the best. Rides best, of course, BMW. And with each generation even better. And so to better than possible, and then, as the classics wrote, even better!. But the departure from many years of tradition, especially in the design of the interior, dares from the new model of the former adherents, although it seems to attract no less than new buyers. But an old friend, you know ... Audi A6, who has gone along the evolutionary path, will please at least all fans of the QUATTRO all -wheel drive system, which is especially true in our northern country. And the status of the owner, his commitment to traditionalism is emphasized by this car, like no other.
And Chrysler 300C is a fresh gust of wind in the established European business sedan market. On it, you will undoubtedly be recognizable, even equals will give in to the road. Yes, and by origin, it seems not to be remake of letters of three hundred in America for half a century. The quality of manufacture and finishes give out a respected German study. And there is a car on the same stage with competitors. Eh, admit parity! But the cost of SHRYSLER is a third lower! And this is rather a dumping than recognition of your own weakness. Which takes 300C to the first place. At the two second!
HOW DO THEY LOOK
Nikita Rozanov
Outside: the laws of behavior on the sites of legal business are little prone to wh caps of fashion, and there have long been their stereotypes. For example, the style of a businessman’s car should not be excessively conservative, but should allow the brand unmistakably identify. Even the lines and plastic of the business class should be neglected and powerful. Well, let's see. Despite the fact that all three dough participants regularly update the style, everyone has a bright personality with stable features. Despite the twisting of Banlal, BMW leads in recognition from the face, but the Audi lag is minimal and is caused only by the novelty of the radiator cladding. Chrysler in this guise is not yet much familiar to domestic businessmen, while in the historical homeland in the USA any more or less versed in cars, instantly recognizes the good old cell for birds, the drawing of which was used to facing the radiator even on the very first three hundred in 1957 from the side. , and in comparison with the intelligent lines of the sidewall and the A6 silhouette, five-sized alcohols look just a street hooligan, and the appearance of Chrysler is somewhat reminiscent of the farmer to stroke at Manhattan. The inexpressiveness of the drawing is inherent in the American and behind, but so far it has a beautiful emblem on the trunk lid, they will recognize the car. Two Germans seem to argue with each other about how to draw the rear lights. BMW uses simple radius curves for this, Audi direct and complex second -order curves.
Inside: the business is nervous, and therefore, the rest and dimension, which are created by wooden inserts and various techniques for caring out high -quality skin. From this schedule, theetry of metal falls somewhat in the Chrysler decoration, but it is from the New World to be different. The Mr.-shaped composition of the Audi panel itself is harmony and the top of ergonomics, and the quality of the implementation of any detail leads to thoughts about a close ideal. BMW instrument panel new -fangled horizontal board with a barely pronounced central console and a minimum of buttons. In the American, of course, everything is the opposite and the console is a separate house and smoothly flows into the floor of the floor ... tradition. According to the laws of the rover genre, many characteristics concentrate in their design: style, image, and even temperament. So, the BMW steering wheel is sporting three -spokes and its radius molding is very suitable for the exterior. The Audi steering wheel is also identical to the face, and its pillow is simply reduced cladding of the radiator, and the buttons on the knitting needles are exactly the eyes of the headlights. The American is again the opposite: the steering wheel is four -spitz, large, with a wooden insert. But everything is whole and, in a certain sense, stylish.
Summary: if you do not wear a headgear and five days a week, go in the rear seat of the car Audi A6 style is simply created for you. If you do not wear a headgear with the exception of the weekend, when it is replaced by a baseball cap in a visor back, then it was for you that Christopher Bangle tried. Well, to lovers of cowboy boots, hats and country music, of course, is designed by Chrysler.
Text Vladimir Smirnov photo Alexander Nozdrin
Source: Cars
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