Test Drive BMW 5 Series F10 since 2009 Sedan

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For 30 years, BMW 5 has become a classic genre. Like a song about Nibelunga, Fugue Baha or Cologne Cathedral. He wanted to love him, respected and there was time! even feared. Epoch ... no more than that car. There is an unrecognizable new one. In view of the last two generations, five in total is no more than Vinnitsa and Nice, Fugue and Fuganka. We tried to understand: the king still died or long live the king?
 
It is like to be close to her that dive into the pool with a giant sea killer. You feel the skin of the inhuman power of the silver body. In devoid emotions, I seem to be noticeable to you. But you know that the same indifferent this look will remain and during an instant throw with an open mouth, after which the pink cloud will enter the water. Impecable streamlined, hidden-muscular, cold lord of ocean expanses. He was already so many thousands of years ago and practically did not change why? He is invincible ... / Self-prison. It so seemed seven years ago after the first tests of the new BMW 5 E39. It seemed that it would always be so. However, American Bangle laid a long-term evolution of a decisive end. New copies around the batch of the former shark will not break. Someone loves sausages, and someone rap. Although if you send a new five to the near, but past century, it would be accurately recognized by the XXI century car. Older hardest. And yet: Do you remember the names of previous BMW designers? And Bangla is no longer forgetting anyone. Cursting with eight tires from the asphalt of the car, we were not going to find out whether to drink water from whose person. Save the shark car temperament? Or the prayers of breeders from marketing turned into a means of exhausting American grandmothers? Here is The Question!
The battle is the point of reference E39 of the Kaliningrad assembly. Clutch coating resembles a wet urban asphalt. The steering wheel inside out, gas until it stops and running the instantly intervened electronics rolling in a circle at the pace of disabled in crutches. DSC off! But the powerful rear-wheel drive on basic tires is scattered in front of us all the diamonds of its sky. Make the trunk to bypass on the priese of the hood is easier than simple: only missed with the correction of the steering wheel or sharply hide with the gas. But, if the trained reflexes do not let down, the beautiful fan turn in slide can be deployed to all 360 degrees! Snake, the rearrangement is similar: if you abandon the help of DSC, no longer ready for a decisive fight against deep drift is needed twist in Pioneer. For which we are five and appreciated. You can not love Sidi friends. But if you can ...
New E60, not paying any attention to pressed to the floor pedal of the accelerator, with the calm of the circula, writes a circle on the safe merit of the merit of the cunning electronics. The blow through the DSC button almost nothing has changed, only a little improved time on the circle. Yeah, the electronics still come: we simply allow us to break slightly (see the insert). Long pressing a button, a yellow light flashes on the speedometer. We are alone with iron. But now the skid has to provoke the front wheels slip out the turn, without waiting for the arrival of the rear! The new Credo fives are not dust from under the walking tail, but precision regulation of turns. This chassis is ready to go very quickly, but the accompanying external special effects no longer guarantees. Thanks to the aluminum nose to the centner? Perfect wealth? Or a special care about the front-wheel drive driver, who does not know how to ride the classics? Although, of course, the tires are completely different here: new stubbornly lipnets to the road with wide low-profile rollers of different dimensions in front and rear ... and yet it seemed that security was not the last priority when setting up a new chassis. Although sportiness reverse side of the same medal. After all, the slide on the asphalt removes the ring rider from the awards. And to achieve a breakdown of the rear axle, the competent pilot will be able to also be true on the new car, on such strokes that illiterate simply will not be solved.
But the latter will comfort the active steering wheel, depending on the speed, the number of rollets of the steering is changed to the stop: when parking times, and ready; On the autobahn the same time ... and did not remove, but only a little moved. This steering wheel also helps DSC struggle with a drift, independently finishing the wheels in the right direction! Very, by the way, it works correctly and delicately. The athletes, however, the unpredictable steering wheel for anything they have honed reflexes and instincts. And wives, children and American grandmothers help them are no longer necessary to be afraid of the Bavarian shark ...
And this is perhaps the main outcome of the full-time rate of the old and new. The level of political correctness in a large-scale car service is steadily growing and this is the fact that it is impossible to dismiss. The predator from Munich became more manual or, 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 shark, you still need courage, dexterity and faith in your strength. Even if you know for sure that the predator recently fed.
EVERYTHING'S UNDER CONTROL
The dynamic stabilization system of the DSC with the ASC + T thrust control subsystem is installed on the former model. It helps to keep the car on the trajectory in turn and avoid slipping, imitating differential locking. A want a hot press a button and only God to help. However, on the new car, the traction control became dynamic (DTC). It allows and stitching under guardianship of a vigilant nurse. Again in the DSC Disconnection button now only gives the intervention of electronics, you can start with the letters or take a turn in an aggressive manner. But the slip is allowed only at speeds up to 70 km / h or transverse acceleration to 0.4 g. The threshold of the discontinuity is adapted to the coating state: Identified and stopping. As soon as DSC deerates them excessive, it will return to normal mode while the car, slowing down, will not be in the DTC authority zone. And to cut off the electronics at all, you need to press the button for a few seconds.
Text Vitaly Tishchenko photo Alexander Nozdrin
 

 

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