Test drive BMW 7 E65 E66 2001 - 2005 sedan

Special opinion

Have you ever seen 100 thousand dollars? Briquetik, packs in a suitcase, just a bunch of bills? Personally, I have not seen. And therefore, having learned that I would drive me by car, which costs even more, I experienced some kind of thrill ...


An expensive representative sedan, but at the same time a car from Munich, where sports traditions have always been in honor and were especially emphasized. Outside, it looks great for all 100 thousand dollars. The body pleases the eye with modern design, but the continuity of the style is evident. Huge wheels harmoniously fit into massive arches. To the best of the Lunaric grin, the front of the car coexists quite tolerably with the massive respectability of its file part.


Opening the door, I saw completely unusual scoreboards, levers and central joystick and realized that in half an hour that I was allocated for a test, I physically did not have time to deal with this intricate electronics.


I insert the key in the groove on the instrument panel and, holding the brake pedal, press the start button under the wheel. The working motor is almost not heard. I turn on the drive mode, let go of the brake and touch smoothly. Nice sensations are food in an expensive car, comfortably rustling with 18-inch rubber along the asphalt of the Khodynsky field.


To begin with, I direct the car not too smooth, with potholes, a section of the road. BMW moves evenly and confidently. There are no vibrations on the steering wheel, body and chair. Accelerated. Everything remains unchanged, except for the acoustic effect, the suspension roar intensified. I make the same route by changing the adjustment of the suspension from the comfort for sports. Everything is still perfect, that's just a sound ... unexpectedly in the German car, Russian pits are heard as clearly as in the domestic.


I return the suspension adjustment of comfort and go to the high -speed section. The motor is very briskly twisted to 6500 revolutions, the box briskly smoothes the gears. Dynamic sensations are beyond praise. Let's just say that a 4.5-liter engine is quite enough here, although there will probably be lovers who will seem enough of it. The delays in pressing the gas pedal, as well as to discharge it, are too big.


The brakes do a great job of their work: the car slows down very effectively despite the fact that it is shod in winter tires. Pleasing and ABS. It turns on at the very last moment before blocking the wheels and does not irritate with false works when the car jumps on a bump or when hanging one of the wheels in a bend.


After experiments with acceleration-renewal, I move to a high-speed snake. Here, regardless of suspension adjustment, the BMW 745i is clearly not sporting. The car is rocker, with pronounced insufficient rotation. The steering wheel is cotton and non -informative, especially in the near -Stolium zone. There is no pleasure from extreme driving. With an active taxiing, an unclosed armrest between the front seats interferes. Perhaps this is the fault of my sports landing is low, with very bent elbows, but it is not clear why in such a large machine a person of my complexion cannot comfortably accommodate (height 170 cm, weight 73 kg)?


The experiment is final. I set up a BMW under the teapot are activated by the ABS, APS and the course stability system. I alternate a snake with acceleration in a straight line, a bunch of slow and quick turns and brakes to the floor. In a word, I try my best to make this computer make a mistake on the wheels and break into an uncontrolled skid. Alas (or cheers?), The provocation failed. I responsibly declare that with such a powerful electronic support in the 745th, even my seven-year-old daughter will be able to control, provided that she will not let go at all, and the desired direction will indicate the steering wheel. Several times in a row I, obviously exceeding the speed, at the entrance to the next gate of the high -speed snake, nevertheless made the movement of the steering wheel, not letting go of the gas, and then an amazing metamorphosis took place. The engine revolutions fell sharply, and the car, brakes in internal, unloaded wheels, smoothly screwed into a completely incredible turn.


Conclusion: BMW 745i was not born for acute sports, but for respectable movement of an important person. I fully admit that the owner, provided and far from the old banker, after a busy day, can occur to it to throw off an expensive tie and, moving from the rear seat to the driver’s seat, rush along the dividing strip of Kutuzovsky Prospekt and the nerves, and make the appropriate effect on the people around . And colleagues in the workshop will understand: ours went!. But if this banker of sports ambitions has a little more, I have no doubt that some Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII or Subaru WRX STI will also be found in his garage.


BMW 745i these are not two products in one bottle, but only one: a solid, safe, representative car. In it, you may seem to be an aggressive driver, a lover of an active lifestyle. But will it give you pleasure? I don't.
 
Boris Schulmeister
 

A source: Motor magazine [June 2002]