Test drive BMW 5 series E39 2000 - 2003 sedan

The fifth series

Actor Vdovichenkov and the BMW car of the fifth series have something in common. This is the image, although a pretty, but negative hero. After reading this story of Vladimir about himself and about the new five BMW, we were convinced: the image is the corrective concept.
Remember the phrase that has become famous thanks to Leo Cassil and quoted him Volodya Sharapov: is not a biography makes a person, but a biography? Do not think, I'm not hinting at myself. It’s just that I, having shifted somewhat, would say the same thing about BMW cars, and above all about the five as the most common in our country. The biography of cars is made by people who ride them. And it is not the fault of BMW, Jeep or Mercedes that at the beginning and in the mid-90s of the cars of this brand more often than others became characters of the on-duty part and the road patrol. The car is owed by his transformation into a criminal legend, a bomb, a beam, a boomer, primarily to its owners. It was, and you can’t rewrite history. But this does not mean that nothing changes. Today, a lot of pretty decent people travels to BMW. Like Nonbmw, a lot is not quite decent. I affirm as the owner of the BMW 520i in the 39th body.
I know that the producers tried to tighten BMW to shoot the Boomer. They turned to the representative office with a proposal to participate in the film one way or another. There, in fright, they waved their hands. Say, we climb out of the skin here, try to wash ourselves from the criminal past, and again you slip a story about bandits. This is clear. And even logical. But only at first glance. I'm not talking about James Bond, chasing Z3 or on a seven. But nothing prevented BMW from sponsoring Hermann Waske Who Killed the Idea? With Harvey Keitel, Nadia Auermann and ... the new five BMW in the lead roles. Yes, the main character is not a specific kid, but a private detective, but the film genre, notice, is not a romantic melodrama, but a real thriller. And then, the movie only fixes reality and very rarely creates it. The reality is that BMW cars were, and will be for people a certain warehouse. Not necessarily criminal. But with the rod, if you want - with gasoline in blood, or something. With direct injection.
BYE WEAPONS. I threw these thoughts on a piece of paper, accidentally turning up by the arm. I turned the sheet and found that I was writing on ... scripts.
He opened the door, fell out of it and rushed that there was urine in the darkness. The cop whistled, rushed after him, two more appeared from under the lantern. We quickly took out the trunks, sent to a white field.
Sergeant: get out of the car! Hands on the hood! Fast! Who will run, shoot!
First: Comrade Sergeant, e-mine, we ...
He did not read further. He turned the page to write down another thought. From the new five of the BMW, I was waiting for the same thing that they probably expect from me after the brigade and Boomer. Continuing operation of a certain type. And they are unlikely to represent me as Count Orlov, whom I play on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater.
So, for the first time when I saw the five, I was stunned by the inconsistency of the image of the former and the present. As if this is not BMW at all. Another type, another breed. The car seemed to me some kind of a cross between a German and Japanese. The design is too futuristic, I was waiting for something more mundane. When he shared his impression with Peter Buslov (who removed the boomer), he said that I did not pull the chip. That this car was just ahead of its time. Remember, ”he said,“ as at first the last seven was also wary. And then the people recovered. Buslov is a director, and the director is always more visible.
I took a closer look at the five. Bright once, as if special signs, shark features are now only guessing. The car took not only to the face, but also in the sides. It began to look not as pumped-to-and-and-out as before. And in general, the new five seemed to me already below the predecessor. It turned out - a rude mistake. As evidenced by the data in the operating instructions.
I open the door, sit down. And again, everything is wrong and not right. The salon is not the way I imagined it. Where is the characteristic five -tank torpedo, which you will not confuse with any other? Previously, his special rounding seemed to fenced off the driver from the passenger, and created as if the personal space of the driver. Only the driver and sensors were visible to the driver, only he owned information about the conditions of flight. Now this exclusivity of the driver's place has disappeared. He is no longer protected from document councils and comments of the rest of the riders. However, again, apparently, I did not understand the idea of \u200b\u200bdesigners from Munich. Because the exclusivity and special awareness of the driver actually did not disappear anywhere. Well, let the passengers stare at their dashboard, and he has no time to be distracted. He looks at the windshield as a display, where the projection system highlights the speedometer, given navigation system, diagnostics. And all this can be seen only to him.
I took out cigarettes, lit a cigarette and after a while I felt a new surge of irritation. So the smoker reacts to the information of the flight attendant that smoking on board is prohibited throughout the flight. Those who made a new five are surely non -smokers.
It’s convenient and pleasant to smoke in my car. The hand is lowered onto the armrest, ashes from a cigarette flies into an ashtray by itself, which, among other things, is easy to remove and shake. In the same car, the ashtray is hidden behind the gearbox lever. It is problematic to extract it from there. Maybe because it is not required for many - while you bring a cigarette butt, the entire ashes will crumble under the feet and on the console.
ALL AT ONCE. An amazing thing is still the maximum equipment. The mouth plugs better than any gag. Although the price of the five is still lifted out of excessively high - for that kind of money you can buy x5. In the car, albeit with minor disadvantages, but with full amenities (and I almost got it), grumble more lazy than without it. Take, for example, heating the seats, which, incidentally, are transformed from hard sports to soft office. The presence of only one of him in a test car was enough for my girlfriend for violent delight. The seats really warm up very quickly and great
No less quickly and enthusiastically appreciated the girl and a Bavarian novelty called I-Drive. I will not hide, against this thing, which would also look unthinkable in the previous Bahah (like a red diploma of my hero Kostya), I had a prejudice. I heard that it hurts already abstruse. What you need to have knowledge of at least a candidate of technical sciences in order to understand it. Nonsense. I personally had enough hours of attentive reading of the instructions. A friend completely did without hints. Like a conductor at the conservatory - a comparison is justified, since she is a graduate of Gnesinka - she controlled the performers, catching them on radio waves or CDs.
Already on the second day, this washer in the center of the console I turned almost blindly, never mistaken. But he suffered with the control of the cruise control. For some reason, they made an additional lever on the new five, which is just responsible for this function. It is located on the left by the helm, and it is easy to confuse it with a turn signal. Which happened to me often. I suspect, this is again done on purpose, given that the cruise control on the new five automatically maintains the distance to the ahead of the car. To his shame, I have to admit that I was confused with the button of turning on/off the dimensions. You either sink it, or pull it out with your fingers. So, having pulled it out once, I could never return to my starting position. Alas, I did not find help in the instructions.
Moscow is a city in which not only is impossible to ride quickly, it is impossible to find a parking lot here. Even in the service parking lots of the theaters of the Moscow City Council and Vakhtangov, between which I have to circulate, closely. And in order to squeeze somewhere without prejudice to yourself and others, one dexterity and driver’s experience. You also need parking sensors. The work of this mechanism has its own characteristics. Automatically parking lots comes to life when the rear gear is turned on. Moving forward, it should be forcibly turned on. True, when recruiting speed, it turns off itself.
Real drive. There is a share of truth in the words of those who claim that BMW is primarily a motor. It remains only to clarify the volume of the motor. For example, I have few thousand cubic centimeters of my personal car. In the city, the lack of agility is felt sharply. I do not always succeed in sharply rebuilt. Sometimes you want to give to the left, but there is no strength. We have to back down. Due to the three -liter engine, this new five has an amazing reception. She is Shustrit, barely pressing the gas pedal. It is bad that the box does not always have time behind the engine. The six -speed machine that I got, it seems, is a little stupid. The gaps have to be eliminated, either including a sports regime, or moving to the stepbronics.
From the musical roar of the engine, Bavarians, it seems, does not insulate the salon consciously. I'm not in a claim. This hollow even caressed me a rumor. Until I went out of town and hit the chatter. From somewhere there were sounds that cause persistent irritation. Plastic parts in the cabin began to creak, and, apparently, having entered full contact with the windshield, the torpedo began to whine. She thundered, no matter how well she was sheathed with a cloth, a plywood in the trunk, which should not be in a car for that kind of money at all. There are no such sounds, say, in the Lexus familiar to me, where you are sitting, as if in a room with double -glazed windows. There, outside the windows of this room, people, houses, cars flash. But you don't hear them. Do not tell me that this is not significant for a sports car and that the five is an athlete by nature. Because nature is manifested in another.
We were traveling with actor Vitaliy Khaev from Faustov near Moscow. In the monastery, Solovetskaya Sloboda starred scenes of the new film Inspiration, in which, by the way, I play a monk. The role is unexpected even for me, but I hope I managed to peep in the monastery the details necessary for the image. It helped that with Father Gurie we easily found common topics. One of them unexpectedly became five. The far, it would seem, is a man from worldly temptations, Father Guri, and go, you are doing no worse than me in the automobile news. Probably, the autopilot regularly reads.
But I was distracted. So, we flew with Vitaly at a speed of 160 km/h. It is impossible to go slower on a good highway on the five. Even a hundred sensation as if the car stops. BMW steering is so that you involuntarily begin to think: you are specifically provoked by fast riding. The higher the speed, the more obedient, the more clearly it reacts to the turns of the steering wheel. If the developers of the Active Steering system invested just such a meaning in it, then they succeeded. It is not for nothing that they sweat over the steering headlights. Help very much in turns. And it’s convenient for you - you see more the road. And the others are good - it is not so strong.
At a speed of 160 km/h, it is impossible not to run into the traffic cop. We ran into. Almost like in advertising. We are on the five, and the traffic cop under the Christmas tree. I got out of the car, hoping that the traffic police officer would recognize me. Then there was a short scene that can be used in some scenario.
Me: commander, guilty. I am in a hurry to a rehearsal to Moscow.
The traffic cop is silent, walks around the car for a long time, carefully examining it from all sides, and finally says: I don’t keep you.
In short, he used my violation to simply stop and slowly consider the BMW 530i. I don’t know what is the solution, but in Moscow they never stopped me even. And the more impudently I broke, the blinds became the traffic cops. Taking photos near the Bolshoi Theater, we, seeking a better angle, put the car and this way. Almost to the steps pushed it. We were all afraid that the police were about to appear and we would have problems. And indeed, a patrol car soon appeared. The police stood at a distance, looked at us and, without doing anything, retreated.
TOUGHIE. At one time, I was engaged in a burning car. Satisfying the need of the people for vehicles alternative to the Lada, I dragged from Germany everything that came.
These were mainly cars of the age of ten, that is, the stage of life, when technical deficiencies climb with might and main, and the advantages practically come to naught. The car, which for a certain period of time has become my personal means of movement - the BMW 323 - in theory was from the same row. That treshka was completely killed. She smoked, smoked and chewed the oil. But she didn’t let me down anymore.
In short, the trust in BMW cars and without a test drive of this five was very, very high. But now it is generally at an unprecedented height. Thanks to the tires that are not afraid of punctures, which, even at a pressure of 0 atmospheres, go 150 kilometers and turn the spare to unnecessary rudiment. I also trust anti -suggestion glasses, which, I am sure, can not withstand a series of targeted beats with a hammer on paper. I would like to note that these options, and in the early 90s-would not be prices! Well, why turn the past.
Text Vladimir Vdovichenkov, photo Maxim Gudkov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov. 32 years. Theater and cinema actor. He graduated from the Kronstadt naval school, served on the North and Baltic Seas. Graduate VGIK. He works at the Mossovet Theater and the Vakhtangov Theater. Filmed in films and television series. Among the latest works is the brigade, boomer.
Personal car - BMW 520i (E39).
BMW 530i (E 60). The presentation of the car was held at the height of the 56th Cannes festival, which was in the spring of this year. Since July 2003, the car has been sold in Russia. Engine - in -line six (231 hp). The maximum speed limited by electronics is 260 km/h. Acceleration to hundreds - 6.9 seconds. The price in Moscow is about $ 80 thousand.

 

Source: "Autopilot"