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Now it is not only the largest, the most equipped and most elegant, but also the strongest: BMW 760LI has a 12-cylinder engine with a working volume of 6 liters and a capacity of 445 hp. - The most advanced of all modern engines.
 
Just see the flagship BMW in the top set 760LI is not enough. It must be felt. And the organizers of the consultation of the novelty found the perfect place to achieve this goal - Dubai. The sun always shines here. Local roads that go through the desert do not have close fences and allow, unlike autobahns in the homeland of a car, to feel the freedom of movement of the German VIP liner in the open sea. In addition, the emirates are a land of unique coexistence of ancient traditions and the latest achievements of technology. The last circumstance seemed to us unexpectedly important at the very end of the event program, but about everything in order.
 
An elongated car is a completely different seven. In her appearance there is no gravity and threatening impregnability. Thanks to the small strokes of design, frozen in chrome, the car looks easier and more elegant than his younger brother.
 
First, sit in the back half of the cabin, because it will be the main habitat of the future owner. Having crossed the line of the doorway, you fall into another world, albeit a small, but capable of pushing heat or cold, dust or snow somewhere into the distance. What is happening outside, you begin to perceive as a TV show.
 
The legs are freely extended after a busy day, the chair is pleasantly relaxed with massage, and the left hand lies on the controller of the Idrive system. We select: watch a TV or DVD, adjust the microclimate or go about business using the functions of communication (there are a great many possibilities, and in order to freely handle all this, you will have to go down to reading the instructions). Yes, it is very comfortable here, but this circumstance does not cause drowsiness. If, nevertheless, it rolls a nap, let the driver instruct the driver to click on the gas ...
 
However, stop. To comprehend the taste of this delicacy of German cuisine, we will move better to a more familiar place of the driver. Right from the threshold we are welcomed by the illuminated nameplate V12. At idle speeds, the motor does not give its presence, but it is worth sending the Valvetronic system to raise the valves higher, and a thoroughbred sound of the BMW unit is cut through in the cabin. This voice, which you can’t confuse with anything, did not flood at all, as is customary on cars of this class. Sound accompaniment is just so that, without introducing discomfort, to accelerate the course of blood in our arteries.
 
The moment engine characteristic is almost symmetrical from 1000 to 6500 min-1. The curve begins a flat rise with a size of 470 nm, to 4000 min-1 reaches an extremum at 600 and, having passed it, falls back to 450. With a gas pedal pressed to the gase floor, the car takes a powerful breath and exhale in each gear, which the six-speed automatic mildly manages Sort in 17 seconds required to achieve 200 km/h. The hundredth line of the speedometer arrow takes 5.6 seconds. Wow limousine! Porsche Boxster next to him looks like a horse -drawn wagon with its 7.4 s.
 
The famous in -line sixes are the BMW hobby, and they had to harness a couple here. Here they are, in the center of a tightly equipped engineering space: twice six cylinders in a row. Despite the fact that we have the engine, which is the peak of modern technological achievements, its valve covers almost do not differ from the tops of those power units, thanks to which BMW engineers gained the glory of the best motorists in the world. The use of the height control system and the valve lifting time, which replaced the indispensable throttle, is not exhausted: for the first time in the world, the direct injection system serves 12 cylinders at once.
 
The power of 445 horsepower for a six -liter engine is small (the specific result is quite ordinary - about 0.75 hp from one liter), which indicates a low degree of force. What does the ultramodern engine design work for and why it is created?
 
Priority was given to efficiency (20.5 liters per 100 km in the city cycle) and observing not only European, but also more stringent American environmental norms. The car is not demanding on the fuel, which is extremely important, since countries, where, like in Russia, gasoline has unstable quality, is a huge market for high -class machines.
 
So, before us is perfection? It's hard to say so far. Bright page of the world car annals? Undoubtedly. And a new stage of evolution of serial ICE ...
 
The final camel walk caused a paradoxical thought. In a sense, the on-board electronics after a hundred years of development of the car bring us to where it all started. At a higher level, of course. BMW with an Idrive system, like a camel or horse, you do not need to indicate where to step and which muscle to strain. It is enough to set a goal - to go straight or turn, but how to do it, the car itself will figure it out.
 
Technical characteristics BMW 760LI
 
The body is a sedan
Number of places, people. - 5
Equipped mass, kg - 2150
Full mass, kg - 2670
Dimensions (length/width/height), mm - 5169/1902/1492
Base, mm - 3130
Maximum speed, km/h - 250
Acceleration time to 100 km/h, s - 5.6
Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km:
- City cycle - 20.5
- Zagorod - 9.7
- mixed - 13.6
Engine:
- Type - gasoline, v12
- working volume, cm3 - 5972
- Power, L.S. at MIN -1 - 445/6000
- torque, NM at min -1 - 600/3950
- power system - direct injection
Transmission - automatic., 6 -speed
Tire size - 245/50R18
Wheel suspension:
- Front - independent
- rear - unenc., pneumatic
Brakes:
- front - disk, ventilated
- rear - disk, ventilated
Steering - with an amplifier
Price, euro - 150,000
 
Text: Andrey Bazarov
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel