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Torpedo attack
The light gait of the BMW has been mastered by Gran Coupe without any discounts on impressive dimensions. In the Board-Complicator menu, the operating instructions for 6 Series Gran Coupe (code designation F06) is found to be a section under the intriguing heading of the flood. The content is concise: in standing water, move only to a water level of a maximum of 25 cm and as much as possible with a pedestrian speed of up to 10 km/h. The novelty of BMW is still waterfowl? But the F06 bursts into the camping order of the four-door compartment of Mercedes-Benz CLS, Porsche Panamera, Audi A7 Sportback not to bury and go to the bottom. Torpedo attack! Sounds from commanding cutting in Munich.
On the odometer of 153 km of factory and drilling, on the bamper, on the bamper, barely noticeable traces from the protective transport mask, the empty license plates in our hands about half a month until the official global start of sales in Russia BMW Gran Coupe! Young-green? Youngly accepted. But is it green? Unless in a figurative sense. The 3.0-liter in-line diesel-diesel batterbox version of 640D is equipped with a start switch of Start Stop, and this is only part of the last generation of the fuel-saving package of Efficentdynamics that has become traditional for Bavarians. If you remove the green ecological glasses, it will be found that the F06 was created on a worked out (and therefore, spent from childhood diseases) technological base of models of the 5th and 7th series, which are also collected at the company's head enterprise in dingolfing.
There is no gram of chlorophyll in the corporate for Gran Coupe with a matte-bronze body of the body. Here it is, the keyword! Actually, the entire concept of four-door coupes (let Hatchi-Pyatdverki are also added to them) is tied to design with a greater degree of relaxedness than ordinary business departments. Of course, there will be those who are hoarse, until the blue, they are ready to extol the charms of CLS II, A7 or Panamera. In their own way, they are certainly right. Nevertheless, it is difficult to get rid of the impression that BMW struck the stylistic goal more precisely. The lightness, grace of the body contours, emphasized by the anti-tissue cut of frameless doors among contrasts of competing F06, perhaps the greatest rights to be called the coupe. And the five -meter length of the car makes the clarification of Gran absolutely justified. The combination of longitudinal gavarit scope and a rapid torpedo profile has been achieved by seemingly obvious methods. BMW designers simply followed the compartment canons: a long hood, a shortened, almost horizontal shelf of the trunk and a sloping roof line. There are no secrets? There is! In the quartet of the German four -door F06, the most squat (1392 mm) model, but the ceiling does not press even the rear passengers up to 183 cm tall, and they do not have to push themselves out of the armchairs, as it happens, say, in Ranamera . Convenient, a thousand devils!
If there is something to murmur to traveling in the second row, then on the generosity, with which the range of longitudinal adjustment of the front seats is measured. Grand Coupe can be turned into a double car! However, the arrangement of the front of the cabin will please not only twisted. To do this, BMW designers did not have to (and who would allow them!) Cross the torpedo unified with the nozzle five. Great freedom in choosing a color scheme and materials is the solution to the problem. The option with a combined, brown-light, almost white leather trim, is possibly defiantly impractical in Russian conditions. But how it looks! And about the trimmed golden-bronze alcantara ceiling and the wrong side of the windshield racks I want to compose poems, odes. In a word, sing praises. Although it is better to entrust the voice acting of the enthusiasm of the Bang & Olufsen Options Audiosystem. Her hearing and vocal cords are always in perfect order. Estes, Sibarites and music lovers who joined them can be satisfied.
And if you look at this luxurious car at a skeptical and practical angle of view? F06 is not defenseless and with such an approach that, in relation to the definition of the Pigzon compartment, looks almost provocative. Both in the nominal and the maximum volume of the trunk of the four -door BMW surpasses the five -door Panamera. True, Gran Coupe pays the usual price for BMW for the capacity of the Coffra: there is no reserve (including) even in the list of options. All hope for the fraughting punctures of RUNFLAT tires with reinforced sidewalls. At the sight of Michelin Primacy HP with a 19-inch planting diameter, a minute ghost is inevitable with a 19-inch landing. But away doubts and fears! In the end, there is not a direction not to plow somewhere between the Chukhloma and Soligalich lost in the Kostroma wilderness, but by the water area of \u200b\u200bthe recently open center of the driver’s skill of BMW Driving Experience under Yakhroma. There are no markings on this site, only cones, so we leave the controller for the unintentional intersection of horizontal road signs for later. In the same box we put off the test of active cruise control with the function of automatic inhibition, systems for tracking interference in blind areas and night vision. Those for the first acquaintance are already enough. Let's say F06 is a chic, a large car with an almost three -meter base. This should be a sample of smoothness. Or not? After all for the BMW compartment, priority No. 1 controllability. Behind the absence on the asphalt platform of the pothole with hard edges, the ratio of the Gran Coupe to them remains in question. About cracks, F06 coverage patches do not stumble, but notes as a meticulous inspector. Perhaps the meticulousness is softened by the installation of basic, 17-inch tires with a higher profile. But in front of the influx of asphalt, something like civilized bedridden policemen. Speed \u200b\u200bfor 50 km/h. Shoes, I recall, are the most sports, on thin soles. Is a tough meeting with unevenness inevitable? Probably, at that moment, the engineers who were responsible for the chassis settings would smile significantly, noticing surprise on my face. Despite the transfer of the key on the floor console of active shock absorbers to the preferred Sport mode, the suspension manages to work out in fact and, without choked, swallow the asphalt mound.
No, F06 is not a straightforward simpleton! There are so many options for combining various settings for the gas, automatic transmission, chassis and DSC stabilization systems that it is just right to stick on a torpedo cheat sheet. But there is no time to scribble it, especially when there is an opportunity, weakening the DSC grip, to sew the snakes marked with cones. The first, with a fairly wide step, throws a white flag in front of Gran Coupe. Expected. The second, compressed, rather, for threek and units, makes it actively operating sharp (at low speeds of two turns from the stop to the stop) by the steering wheel and also surrender. Not a hint of seemingly inevitable drifts! Is the torpedo F06 equipped with a self -confidence system? If you calculate the active integral steering for this, then yes. When turning at speeds, mainly up to 60 km/h, to improve maneuverability, the electric motor with worm gear turns the rear wheels into small angles in different directions. This device showed itself in all its glory. In a word, and sitting in Gran Coupe with blindfolded eyes, you can accurately determine its belonging to the BMW clan by a light, muddy gait. It seems that the F06 is quite pleased with its dimensions with dexterity in a wide range of full -time situations. Otherwise, a crazy Ivan or, more simply, a police reversal would not be in the list of prohibited techniques. No, the car does playfully with the action itself, but then freezes with the engine turned off, scaring the ignition that appears on the main display! Contact the maintenance station. Such a revolution is not too discouraged by the instructors of the center. At the training in Germany, they had heard that the controlling electronics is able to regard the rapid rotation of the car as a sign of an emergency and in order to avoid a possible fire to temporarily de -energize the fuel pump. There is another working hypothesis of the cause of the software knitting. The automatic transmission of modern BMWs is not mechanically associated with an electronic selector, and the inclusion of a neutral LED on it is not a guarantee of an instant transition of the box to the regime required when performing a police turn. One way or another, the paralysis did not last long enough to call the brigade of urgent technical assistance from Moscow. After 20 minutes, the car came to life, as if nothing had happened.
Yes, the heart of this handsome man is extremely healthy, which has been certified by three in a row since 2009 by the victories of 3.0-liter BMW bmw bildiesel in its category in the competition of the year. F06 received the latest, 313-horsepower version of this motor. The increase in the power of VS predecessor (306 l.) Is not great, but fundamental. Until recently, all the solar competitors were inferior in the power of the engineering cavalry of the BMW 6 Series with the D index, but Audi mixed the cards by installing 313-horsepower biturbo-V6 on the top diesel A7 Sportback. In Munich, the challenge was accepted and, having joked in the electronic brains of the engine control unit, they easily achieved a draw in the competition for maximum power. True, the engine of the ringed traction (650 VS 630 nm), and in a passport sprint of 0-100 km/h, the advantage of 0.1 s is behind the Audi model, despite its larger weight due to the installation of the transmission 44. But the two most powerful diesel Bavarian The four -door compartment does not converge on the roads of Russia in a full -time duel: Audi has not yet offered such A7 with us. The BMW Gran Coupe 640d simply does not have other direct competitors in dynamics. Others are torpedoed or do not accept the battle, as a side of CLS II with a heavy fuel engines circulating Russia. Apparently, this is also known to F06. Even when the sound of a diesel engine is after 3000 rpm. He begins to penetrate into the salon and until the cut -off, in it you will not find deliberate aggression. Nevertheless, in this muffled baritone it is clearly heard: everything is under control. Indeed, even in the standard mode of tuning the accelerator, the solar -shaped accelerator, flexibly varying the degree of support for two turbines of different diameters, without losing the animal of the response, instantly spins to maximum revolutions, like a cool gasoline engine. However, in the easily fuel direction, Gran Coupe is also captured. From June 4, sales and versions of 640i will start, and in the fall there will be a top 650i (including in an all -wheel drive version of XDRive) with forced up to 450 liters. With. 4.4-liter biturbo-V8. This one is torpedoed even by the letter Audi S7. A side effect with all versions of F06 is one: an attempt to get the most equipped car due to the bottomless of the list of options (it was also advised by ordinary parking sensors) threatens a hole even in tight wallets. The torpedo attack
The genetic code of the CS concept, presented at the Shanghai Motor Show2007, seemed excessively original in order to serve as a stylistic germ for not the most printed serial model. However, CS genes were transmitted 6 Series Gran Coupe
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