Test drive BMW 5 series E39 2000 - 2003 sedan

Five with a plus

If you want, consider this an evaluation of a well -sold car. And if you want, take the recently modernized fifth BMW series itself.
 
Improvements brought in the BMW of the 5th series of the 2001 model year are determined by a whole range of events. But it is difficult to determine from the condach, as they say, restyling innovations. Outwardly, the same impeccably clean, swift silhouette of a solid sedan. And although the car appeared more than five years ago, to its appearance, as they say, neither decrease nor add.
 
Plastic surgery in such cases is fraught with consequences, and the Germans did not become zealous. More precisely - take risks. They delicately supported the immature values \u200b\u200bof the five rounded fog lights, a more expressive nickel edging of the nostrils on the hood, elegant alloy wheeled wheels, which migrated from the category of options into the standard completion of the car.
 
It turned out not bad, however, if it were not for the brilliant in its simplicity and spectacular solution to the front overall lights, the conversation about external modernization could simply be omitted. The fact is that with the onset of darkness, each of the four elements of the head optics is framed by a shining halo. It looks super -stroke. It seems as if the headlights are surrounded by a circle with luminous neon tubes, although everything is much simpler - a lobe -lobed -bearing lobe bent by a ring and a halogen light bulb. By the way, the rear lights are also not ignored. Thanks to the use of LEDs, the feet in them have become brighter and more durable, they react more quickly to the brake pedal.
 
The interior of the updated five mainly copies the apartments of the predecessor, although the list of additional equipment has been expanded. The consumer, for example, became available seats, part -time performing the functions of the vibration massager. And the mobile phone built into the middle armrest has now become wireless, etc.
 
However, the sedan, as before, is well equipped in the base. Greatly organized the life and safety of its passengers. But preference, apparently, is still given ahead. Especially the steering. This is an indirect confirmation of the BMW principle - a car for the driver. More specific - an increase in the power parameters of the engines. And although the energy of the six -cylinder engines increased in the entire range of the three -liter power unit of the sedan 530i, superior to the predecessor engine - 528i - in volume, power (231 hp against 193) and the maximum of torque (300 nm versus 280) .
 
Accordingly, traction-dynamic characteristics have improved. As speed - by the way, artificially limited 250 km/h, and acceptance. Accelerating to one hundred kilometers per hour in 7.6 seconds, the five became more rapid than before. It is worth clicking on the gas pedal with the heart, and Bimmer, as if picked up by a gust of wind, breaks away and melts in spaces with lightning speed.
 
Needless to say, how much more relevant is now a regularly caring electronic system for stabilizing stability and traction control (ASC+T), which prevents the slipping of the drive wheels on a smooth surface, especially in corners and when touched from the place. The significance of a five -speed machine with economical and sports modes and the possibility of manual gearboxes, an uncompromising anti -locking brake system is undeniable.
 
By the way, the car was equipped with a Russian package: the BMW 530i was strengthened by the suspension, the engine is protected, the road clearance is increased, and rubber products of high frost resistance are used. Given the above and increased energy intensity of the suspension, the most part lost the role of the factor that restrains the movement of the factor. Now you feel equally confidently on an even asphalt highway and on an exhausted snowy winter road.
 
It is curious that that has become more powerful, the five in the absolute standings retained at the same level - 10.7 liters per 100 kilometers - the average consumption of gasoline.
 
And even more interesting is that the updated fifth series for the Russian market is collected in Kaliningrad, which reduces a vacation price compared to the German production analogue by as much as twenty percent. Moreover, the quality of our assembly, as it was recently managed to make sure, thanks to small -scale even higher than the company. Here is such a five with a plus.
 
Technical characteristics BMW 530ia
 
Body - 4 -door sedan o Number of places, people. - 5 o equipped mass, kg - 1560 o dimensions (length/width/height), mm - 4775/1800/1435 O base, mm - 2830 O capacity of the fuel tank, l - 70 o t luggage capacity, l - 460 o maxim. speed, km/h-250 o engine: bin-link, in order, 6-cylinder, 24-valve; working volume, cm3 - 2979; Power, L.S. at MIN -1 - 231/5900; Torque, NM at min -1 - 300/3500 O transmission - 5 -speed, automatic, with manual mode, rear -wheel drive O price, $ - 51900.

BMW 530ia Comfort
 
Eirbagi front, lateral and head-ups O ASC + T o Immo-bilase o ABS O ABS O leather multifunction steering wheel O anterior armrest of an electric grinder with a heated in a zone of absorption in a collision of up to 4 km/h O 4 email. windshields O locks against hacking O microfilter O CZ with a climate control of alarm O Northern execution O reinforced suspension o cruise-ring O heating the front seats O easily and decorated discs of a radio computers O preparation for preparation for preparation CD changer O washer headlights o Rain sensor o other things.
 
Text: Igor Kuznetsov
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel