Test Drive BMW 6 series coupe from 2011 coupe

Tekhnoromantics

It is believed that the cars used to be, let's say, more honest, closer to the driver, and the management process gave romantics and in a certain sense of sports. In any case, this consideration is close to Truth, if you take a powerful coupe with a sports suspension like the legendary 6th BMW series, which was produced in the past century.

 

What now? The abundance of electronics, stabilization systems, first-class noise insulation, widespread accomplishment of drives, smart box automata- as a result of a powerful machine can be controlled without frightened. Cars almost all learned to do themselves. And what did not learn, they are necessarily about them, soon drivers will continue to be reduced to the position of the passenger. What is the romance here ...

 

Approximately such thoughts spinned in the head before familiarizing with the six BMW of the XXI century. This is an extremely technological car, almost every node and the unit of which is made using the most recent achievements of the auto industry, superior to the fact that the market offers today. You can say a computer on wheels, where all processes are strictly subordinated to the central, sorry for the tautology, the processor. Curious, what role is the role of a person in managing this device - is it not auxiliary? Is there something from the mentioned romance, which gave the driver the legendary predecessor of the novelty?

 

Well, that, and the appearance of the machine of reasons for disappointment will not give, probably no one. All BMW models, released after an ambiguous new seven, please the eyes of fresh design and harmony. This also applies to the 5th series, and the newly emerged 1st, and, of course, 645 ci. In the guise of six there is everything: nobility, sophistication, individuality, luxury, dynamics. Classic machine proportions, but body items create a clinging picture with originality. Long hood, small skes, as if a circulation outlined huge arches, in which spectacular alloy wheels are easily fit (the dimension of 245/40 R19 in front and 275/35 R19 from behind). It can not remember the front part with an ice eye headlight glance, huge branded nostrils, aggressive bumper with large air intakes. Behind, too, there is something to see. On extraordinary LED lights, for example, or an intricate trunk lid. And how the thighs of this beauty are curved! And, of course, there are two powerful chromed pipes of the exhaust system, and this is by no means butafory. It is enough to start the engine and play the accelerator pedal, and the image of the machine is supplemented by an equally expressive sound - a maliciously tuned low peel that mows through the exhaust system of mighty V8. In general, everything is fulfilled according to the strict laws of the genre and taking into account the Bavarian specifics. Definitely the highest level.

 

Open the heavy door (without a frame, of course) and get into a cozy salon, where along with light (not too, I must say, impractical) the skin is richly used. In the center under a separate visor attached an old familiar idrive, but the menu is not so global and overloaded here as in the 7th series. The style of the cabin seems not sporty, but rather aristocratic. However, this is only the first impression. The leather chair is gentle, but reliably fixes the body (for the sake of the sake of the sake of the sake that with the speed passing of the turns, there is a little lack of lateral support for the legs), plus a small chubby ram, the central console, deployed to the driver, is all real sports attributes.

 

Ergonomics of the front of the cabin flawless. And even somehow embarrassing to stop on the quality of materials, assemblies, fitting parts - because it is a BMW cost for $ 100 thousand! Electric drives will help you find an optimal landing to man in growth and for 190 cm. But behind the back is closely. In order for there at least somehow it was possible to get a job two people, you will have to bake the sitting on the front chairs. However, even in this case, in the second row, it is better not to linger - tiring. In general, the classic version of the rank GT - 2 + 2.

 

The first minutes of movement on the new six is \u200b\u200bakin to revelation. How she ruls! It looks like a deception of the senses, such simply does not happen! Huge Mahina with far from the easiest front part (but, however, with an excellent waving), the steering wheel is listening like a small card. It is necessary to intercept the battered with hands only when parking, the slightest movement is accompanied by an instant and accurate direction adjustment. It seems that someone has canceled the laws of physics there at the top, or a substitution of reality on the virtual is to remember the car that would be managed better, difficult.

 

Thank you here two know-how Bavarians - Active Steering and Dynamic Drive. The first is the steering mechanism with a variable gear ratio, the second is active transverse stability stabilizers. Active Steering, despite the obvious convenience and ease of control, requires some addiction. In steep turns, the hands are automatically trying to intercept the beam, the palm rises in the air unclaimed - the wheels are rotated to the desired angle with the minimum deviation of the steering wheel. Naturally, the gear ratio depends on the speed of movement. Everything is configured perfectly, and when you get in tricks of the steering, you realize that this is the most perfect system for today. The operation of the active stabilizers is reduced to the rotation of the rolls in turns by twisting the stabilizer racks, which gives the whole design additional rigidity. Note that the work of these two systems is surprisingly well balanced. Well, the result is a stunning feeling of a complete merger with the car. Here you have a new racing romance - computer!

 

BMW 645 CI is superbly held by the trajectory, however, at high speeds it becomes sensitive to the irregularities of the roadway - you have to be twisted. However, there was no car that would not save one way or another before Russian roads. Well, and if you exceed the speed in the turn, pre-getting rid of the help of the DTC stabilizing system, and even rolling the car with counseling? Will there be no powerful car uncontrollable and will not give an unpleasant surprise to the owner, at the most inappropriate moment there is a side of the road? No! Critical regimes is a special seasoning to an unusually tasty treat, served by the six. If desired, it can be poured into a sufficiently deep skid, and it will be a 100% controlled slide. And let such a juniorness means the loss of speed and the non-optimal passage of the virageas, the exhaustion from power over such a powerful car, as well as how effectively, the likelihood looks like, overlap all the minutes of practical sense.

 

Dynamic characteristics of 645 CI are very convincing (who would doubt!). Acceleration up to 100 km / h occupies 5.8 seconds, and we tend to believe this figure. Familiar on models X5 4.4 and 745 Power unit issues almost 340 hp And the torque torque in a wide range of revolutions - the car is ready to shoot always when the driver wishes. The motor works in a pair with a six-speed automatic (645 Ci can also be equipped with a six-speed mechanic and a robotic SMG box), and we really liked this tandem. The car is willing to adapt to the desire and mood of the driver. When I want an active drive, 645 Ci will take to the last hanging on the selected gear (and in sports, and even in simple automatic mode), the electronic pedal reactions will be much sharper - the machine turns into a real managed rocket! But the passions would make up, and we now want smoothly, with a slow solidity to roll on the road. The six quickly cools his dust: once again snapped with sharp switches, it calms down - enters the role of a large comfortable compartment. A superbly tuned chassis based on huge wheels is easily coping with road irregularities, and even when moving along the broken canvase in the cabin, a high level of comfort is maintained. The suspension is elastic and energy-intensive, and the smoothness of the stroke is ensured not to the detriment of manageability. Well, and an excellent BOSE audio system and magnificent sound insulation create an additional comfort.

 

And how the six slows down! The most powerful mechanisms heat the car powerfully and immaculately from any speed, at least 100, at least from 240 km / h. No diggers, invisions, the process is always under full control, brake pedal informative and elastic.

 

The description of the luggage compartment is lowered - not before. Better back to the driver Romantic repeatedly mentioned in this publication. It seems to have figured out ... BMW 645 CI is romance in a square, modern, high-tech. The car gave us all that we hoped to get it, holding the first 6th series in my head, and even more. From here it follows the conclusion about the proximity (we use this word without any fear) of the machine to ideal. Or maybe about identity (and this is already with some octa).

 

P.S. Prices for the BMW 6 series start from 86.900 euros (version with 3 L engine). We at the test visited the top version for 101.900 euros - 4.4-liter, with a big list of options.

 

Text: Leonty Tyteleev
 
 

 

A source: Magazine Motor [№01 / 2005]