Test drive BMW 7 E38 1998 - 2001 sedan

It was tomorrow yesterday

For a complete similarity, there were not enough pairs of walnuts, catapults, a collar in the front hub, and another of Mr. Kew's gentleman's set.
 

I didn't watch the film. But I’ll say that it was exactly the same as mine, James Bond had an agent 007 - will never die in an action movie tomorrow.
 

Even the colors are the same. It is naturally not about his girlfriend, but about BMW 750il. For a complete similarity, there were not enough pairs of walnuts, catapults, a collar in the front hub, and another of Mr. Kew's gentleman's set. But everything else, standard for this model, was abundant. First of all, these are 12 cylinders, 5 steps of the automatic box and an additional 14 cm of the rear door opening. This is the Bavarian flagship.
 

Frankly, with a word of three letters B, M and W, the image of the ISETTA motor -coal and only then the hot chips of the McLaren F1 supercar stubbornly appear in my head. I don’t know why. Yes, there were dozens of models with excellent (and sometimes superior) technical characteristics, there were legend cars, but BMW is perceived by me as a shadow. Shadow from Mercedes-Benz.
 

Yes, again, we can not do without comparison, which has become a parable in the tongue - two great brands compete fiercely in all classes of cars, in all promising directions, and the opponent respond to each attack. About ten years ago, on one of the salons, BMW and Mercedes-Benz arranged a uniform circus from the presentation of their new V12 engines. Both motors have not yet passed tests and were not ready to launch a series. But both brought the concepts and put them up, covering them with fabric, and sent radio operators to the camp of competitors. In the event that one of the stands would have been torn off the veil even from the layout (!) Of the engine, a layout would open after a second at the other end of the hall.
 

No one wanted to lose more than a second. So they stood in anticipation of the prime minister 10 days of the exhibition. There is no such rigid competition as between these German firms anywhere. Competing with Mercedes, BMW creates equally perfect cars. And it often happens that the shadow breaks forward of the object that leads it ...
 

Seven hundred and fifty is contradictory. Of course, this is a very competent and honed device - on the one hand. On the other hand, this is an absolutely wild thing without a single gram of Mercedes monumentalism. An expensive representative car, and looks like a half -beating BMW M3, distorted in a magnifying glass. The highest class BMW is a little over twenty years. His style was formed without looking at the radiator grilles of the beginning of the century. Perhaps because of this, the car is not as pompous as the same S-class or conservative Rolls-Royce. Wondering constant wars in the highest automobile spheres, the Bavarians chose Jaguar allies. A lot in common is observed in the BMW seven with sedans of the XJ of the 3rd series (this is even more noticeable on the machines of the previous generation) - a low planted body, the shape of the rear racks, the horizontal division of the sidewalls. Sport style. Healthy mind.
 

All in place. It would not hurt to do business - to ride. I’m just not thinking - to immediately get behind the wheel or to start spreading on the back sofa, throwing your feet on your foot, and read with the smart view of The Times - such cars seem to be intended for a person in the back seat. But not! There are no thousands of times! Here it is, the key to understanding the representative essence of the BMW - the TV monitor is not visible from the rear right seat! So I go ahead and left. This car represents not the one he carries, but the one who owns it, that is, controls. It's me.
 

I turn on Drive, and a huge hangar and the land on which he stood moved on me. The car started without a single sound, a push and a hint of a slip. But under the wheels - bare ice. The proprietary stabilization system ASC+T quietly removed the excess of torque. The back of the seat pushed forward, as if it were in it, and not under the hood, the horse's herd came into motion. Finally pressed the gas pedal. Angar drove past, a hefty gate appeared from somewhere, and after them the highway ribbon rushed right at me ...
 

Having experienced indescribable delight when touched, I did not even notice how the TV screen went out. However, the sound from the TV remained, and nothing could prevent me from guessing two melodies from the seven that sounded during this time. From different angles of the cabin, 10 BMW Top Hi Fi System speakers at once attached me to the songs of the Soviet stage. I decided to change the record - I chose the CD mode in the television -shock system and began to wait for a meeting with three high -rise buildings moving towards me. In parallel to the houses, a truck swept towards me. As in a silent movie - there is a truck, but there is no sound from it.
 

Two -layer side glass create absolute sound insulation.
 

Deaf, as in a tank. Only in the tank from the motor you stall and even from the commander, but here you can’t hear your own motor, and you are the commander to yourself - so you have to yell at all. For myself, I decided that when a policeman with a booth drives up, I will slightly open the hatch in the roof to clearly hear whether he would whistle or not. At that moment I turned the steering wheel, and the booth left somewhere to the east.
 

I liked the steering wheel. A light turn of the steering wheel - and a two -ton thunder unfolds you with a chair and a TV. It is felt that the rear wheels begin to steal under the front trajectory. In fact, it only seems so. An impressive torque from behind creates the illusion of a full -controlled machine. If the front line is usually controlled, then the back can be adjusted to the trail with easy pressing for gas. At the same time, the same ASC+T will not allow him to deviate beyond the trajectory.
 

... The speedometer bent the arrow to 140, the windshield and faster closer and faster brought different objects, and I still sat in an armchair, propped up with a herd of horses, and listened to a light Music. Where are you, external factors? The comfort that BMW engineers created the driver is beyond praise. For example, tuning and adjusting the microclimate in the cabin is carried out in six directions (front/back, left/right, in the legs/at the level of the head). On the gentle waves of the road flying on me, the car swayed slightly, but on tubercles and pits behaved unshakably.
 

He did not notice the micronerings of the road at all - he did not go, but sailed. Hands became hot, I had to turn off the heating of the rim of the steering wheel.
 

That's it, I will not take the soul to the owner of Daewoo Nexia.

 
I stop, transplanted back. Now I'm a BMW 750il passenger. So that I was always taken so - to work, from work ... Apparently, Bavarians have been grazed for long years Rolls -Royce, they learned a lot from the masters from the CREM.
 

The footsteps of the rear passengers are Rolls -Roisov’s little thing. Two halves of the rear sofa are adjustable in height, angle of inclination, the length of the seat pillow, and the corner of the back of the back. By clicking on the button, you can create a convenient profile for yourself - grab your shoulders or support the lower back.
 

Naturally, all seats have electric heating.
 

In the middle of the sofa, behind the folding armrest - a minibar with a refrigerator.

 
You can control the microclimate behind. If desired, having scattered glasses of the rear doors (translucent curtains are cleaned into inconspicuous cracks-karmana), you can give your trip the nature of secrecy. The rear window curtain folds and extends automatically. Is it necessary to explain that everything around is leather and wood? And what a skin it is! What a tree!
 

All! Let me out of here! I’m sitting in Sephia Leo, I’ll go a box from the first to the fifth, I’ll shake youth and try to never remember how the BMW 750il works.
 

Some of the friends promised to bring the cassette to the cassette would never die tomorrow.
 

What stupidity. I already had it tomorrow yesterday. Dejaugu turns out ...
 

Three BMW seven
 

The first model of the representative class with a blue-white propeller on the hood appeared at the end of 1976. The appearance of cars of the 7th series was developed under the guidance of a marriage field, which was at that time the bmw chef designer.
 

The machine was equipped with in-line 6-cylinder engines with a volume of 2.8, 3.0 and 3.3 liters (with a capacity of 172, 178 and 200 hp, respectively). In 1979, a new 200 -horsepower version with a 3.2 l engine was presented - BMW 732.
 

From 1976 to 1989, a compartment of the 6th series was produced on the seven platform, as well as its charged version of the M 635CSI from the BMW Motorsport with a 220 hp engine.
 

The next two generations of the 7th series were also developed by their own design center. Considering that all other BMW models were created without involving eminent studies, the difference in the freshness of the design between Bavarian machines and Mercedes has become especially noticeable by the end of the 80s.
 

The founder of ITALDESIGN studio Jujaro noticed that BMW produces very high quality cars, but it does not improve their design to the extent that is possible. Mercedes acts more decisively.
 

The second generation debuted in September 1986 in Frankfurt (model 735i). A long-drawn version with a 5-liter V12 engine and a 4-speed automatic transmission appeared only a year later. In September 1989, the flagship BMW model was seriously installed by the anti -circus system. In 1992, the range was replenished with cars with 3- and 4-liter V8 engines (218 and 286 hp, respectively).
 

In March 1994, the premiere of the 730 and 740 models took place - third -generation BMW representative sedans. The new 750il model with an elongated base and a 5.4 liter engine debuted in Frankfurt in September of the same year. In addition, the elongated version was also proposed in the option with a 4-liter V8 engine (740il). A year later, an economical model 728 with a 6-cylinder 195-horsepower engine appeared in the seventh series. In March 1996, a three-liter engine of the 730i model with a 3.5-liter (235 hp) and a 4-liter 740i model by a 4.4-liter V8 (without changing power) followed. At the same time, the indexes of the models remained the same. Then the seven (model 725TDS) first received a turbodiesel unit (143 hp).


To date, the BMW of the 7th series is used by the governments of a number of countries. BMW 750il as a first -person car is in the service of German President Roman Herceg. At the same time, the Chancellor Helmut Kohl travels to Mercedes-Benz S. Apparently, so that the main competitor of the BMW is not offended.
 

Ivan Paderin

 
 
 

Source: Magazine Motor