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Magnificent "Five"
The BMW 540i car exists in order to get from one point to another. Anyway, too strong sensations from the trip will make forget about her goals. Recycling this car is alien. You just need to ride on it. And you need to be able to drive it. ATTRACTION
What to compare this roller? Is it really again with an airplane accelerating on the runway? If we were driving on the bottom of the Black Rock, a dried salted lake, where world speed records are installed: where nothing bothers the acceleration, the car accelerates and accelerates, everything presses in the chair, the ears laid down, inside everything freezes and breaks. On the Frunzen Embankment, skating more resembles an attraction - like the American slides, which on the opposite shore.
Russell in places, prepared ... Start! And immediately on the sides begin in an unreal and all-increasing pace, overtaken cars; A sharp jerk to the left - and we (at least in mind and understand that it is impossible) we climb into a too small gap between the machines; As the counterpart perceived half acende of overclocking on the Baemwash, extreme left strip with a notorious indulgence in the backrest. What will happen next surprise? Here it is: on a huge speed, a red traffic light is approaching, a car ride completely closely. Look like that's it. But the most intersection we stop. And per feeling is not even very sharp. Only on the attractions, when you go to some trailer down your head, for some reason not falling out, you can experience such a feeling - the usual laws of mechanics no longer act. Now our car remains only to enter the wall of the house, to rebuild in the air and land exactly at the point of departure: everything, the view is over, it's time to run the next game.
But the performance ended in a different way. To take a picture of the car on a suitable background, it was necessary to enter the low pavement. Tense at one angle, under another, the engine is roaring, and BMW after several attempts finally clumsily climbing. So do not expect her to serve you to the entrance. She is allowed to entertain the owner, and not to do.
Effect of addiction
Entertainment speed like drug addiction. Every time you need all big doses. Only passing a lot of previous stages of high-speed drug addiction, you can reach the 540th - one of the latter. And immediately try to feel it - it's like a fresh person to look at the drug addicts: they sit, smoke some kind of herb - what is the pleasure?
The owner of our BMW Dmitry confidently entered the slippery path of high-speed mania already with his first car, eight (VAZ, and not Baemwash). She was not simple. With tightly blocked differential: the steering wheel in turn does not hold, but the overclocking is better. Then there were many other machines, but the goal was alone. Therefore, memories are lined up in one scheme. On Cherokee: held a turn under 120 km / h and flew away from the track; On the BMW 750: she turned sharply on the fork of two roads, at a huge speed flew out in the field, adhered, nose into the pit, the car stood up vertically. Etc. It is necessary to really be a special person, so that after crazy overtakes and rebuildings calmly declare: it is a pity, the tires are summer, not that dynamics; Or it is quite serious to say: 540th accelerates significantly faster than the 750th - I think somewhere for a second. And it does not sound Pozames in the mouths of a person who, while our photographer did not find the necessary perspective, many times and absolutely unmistakably made the figures of the highest automotive pilot, including maneuver from American militants - a turn from a place to 180 degrees with a drift.
Dmitry shook behind the wheel, and the look becomes motionless. However, this is not a feature of this particular car owner. Just silent and began to look at one point the director of the autopilot when TDS had moved from its 525th TDS in the 540th. And when got out, he said that everything, now he needs only such a car.
Autofanate feels alone with the car, whoever sat next to and whatever happens around. The guys from the Porsche club told me that when they ride around the city, the girls vote all the time - they want to ride and everyone is ready. With BMW 540 this does not happen. What are the girls there! The whole world around the world with cars, pedestrians, road signs goes to the background. What, in general, can not be said safe for the surrounding world. How fast will it be able to accelerate this time? - the owner constantly thinks. At the university at the Sparrow Mountains - just 150. There is little space. It's a shame. But in some suburban forest park it turned out 240. To the horror of holidaymakers of citizens. But before, when you inside such a car!
INCUBATOR BMW 540 - In a sense, the limit. This car will not turn the driver. She knows more opportunities than a person is able to use. She will always customize it: come on, even faster overclocking, steeper steering wheel, sharp brake, you don't know again what I can learn.
It seems that the same idea underlies the internal design. Remember the appointment of dozens of buttons on the panel, doors, chairs, steering wheel, the gearbox will not help any pictograms - so much they simply do not come up with. But also to carry out the instructions with them and consult with it - stupid. So the abundance of the buttons turns into another reminder to the driver: before this car you need to grow.
TIP-TRONIC gearbox must be simply studied separately. It can work as manual and as automatic. It can become sport and again normal. It can be trimmed with the first, with the second and even with a third transfer. True, at least to reach the mind of all this variety is immediately difficult, movements from the driver are required the simplest. Switching to sports mode - lever left. For one speed up in manual mode - lever forward, one speed down - lever back.
In general, comfort can crush. Any living being is always inconvenient to anyone: it cannot surround the world to accurately adapt to his forms and desires. A chair BMW 540 may, and therefore you feel even somehow helpless. It is also better than you, it can do everything. Rides back and forth, up and down; leans and straightens; The headrest moves in search of the head of the saddle; The back is bent, rejuvenated, wounded, bent; Any piece of seats is blown away and inflated. No, with independent people do not appeal. And some kind of hospital silence, although the motor, judging by the tachometer arrow, works. Feel yourself an embryo in a mobile incubator. It remains to put the air conditioner at a temperature of 36.6 degrees and to obtain a nutrient mixture through the tube. While on all sides - from the floor, from the ceiling, out of the door, from the front panel, from the space between the seats - you carefully and carefully blow up air flows: so that a fragile young organism does not overheat and not overheated.
What simple, humane seems after this resuscitation comfort of the 525th TDS of the previous model range! Hard seats. Rocky diesel at idle. Rude, compared to the new five, plastic decoration. This car will not force you by anything to overtake everyone in the world. You want - overtake, no - do not rush. You are the main, not a car.
And last. We do not intend to learn anyone, but still convinced that the new five is a car for very independent people. Even if you have a position, live on Frunzenskaya Embankment, drive for the new year in Africa, skillfully use a cell phone and Windows-95, do not hurry. Buying such a car - a step is serious and responsible. And if you assume that there will be a driver to drive it, and you, having settled in the back seat with blue-eyed blonde, will relax and enjoy, BMW will not help you. And he will not teach anything. And he will not feel anything. In general, you can give both a car, and a blonde in addition to your shoe. Because you, speaking, have just chosen ordinary Ponte's life. However, it is possible to score a microscope nails ...
Model BMW 540I.
MODIFICATION
Manufacturer BMW AG, Germany
BODY
Sedan type
Number of doors / places 4/5
ENGINE
Type gasoline with multipoint injection
Location Front Overlit
Working volume, see cube. 4398.
Cylinder number 8 / V-shaped
Cylinder diameter x piston stroke, mm 92x82.7
Compressive degree of 10.0.
Power, l. from. (kW) at rpm 286 (210) at 5700
Moment, nm at rpm 420 at 3900
Number of valves / cylinder 4
TRANSMISSION
Rear wheel drive
5-speed automatic steptronic gearbox
SUSPENSION
Front independent, multi-type
Rear independent, multi-dimensional
STEERING
Type of the Rake Gear, with a hydrauliculator
Torkemose
Front disk (ventilated)
Rear disk (ventilated)
ABS Standard
Wheels
Disk size 7JX16
Tire size 225/60 R16
Dimensions / About EMA / Weight
Length / Width / Height, mm 4775/1800/1435
Wheel base, mm 2830
Front / Pallet Rear Pitch, mm 1512/1526
Minimum rotation radius, m 5.7
Dry mass, kg 1615
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed, km / h 250
Acceleration up to 100 km / h, sec 6.5
Economy
Fuel consumption, l / 100 km
average 13.0
with the city cycle 19.9
What else
BMW 540i is a harmonious combination of representativeness with sportiness (by no means organized, as for some reason it is customary to think with us), formally remaining the second-class car. Models with similar dynamic parameters and level of comfort, and even rear-wheel drive, in this class there are few. For clarity, we found representatives of various design schools - German, Italian and Japanese-American (more precisely, Japanese with an American bias).
Infiniti Q 45 as a car focused on the North American market is highlighted by the largest dimensions and spacious interior. The behavior of the car on the road is also close to American ideas about comfort. If your tastes coincide in this matter with American, Infiniti Q 45 is what you need.
The closest competitor - Mercedes-Benz E 420, despite, it would seem, obvious sports deposits are still unable to finally break away from their dull-conservative pedigree and definitely does not fall under the definition of Driver's CAR.
If we were talking about the driver for the driver, especially the driver who wants to rip their nerves and pride, then Maserati Quattroporte will argue with our hero. Even despite the shortage of the pair of cylinders and one and a half times less operating engine. After all, the hot temperament Italian is due to the number of cubic centimeters, but a double turbocharger.
Alexey Kamensky,
Stepan Fishermen (photo)
A source: "Autopilot"
