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BMW 745LI /6300 km

When friends find out that we have a BMW 745LI on a long -term test, they are not asking about the number of cylinders under the hood and video discs in the trunk. They ask: what do you feel behind the wheel of such a car? We answer.
Oddly enough, even car owners worth 40, 50, 60 thousand US dollars arrive in the belief that the driver (or passenger) has some completely special sensations behind the wheel of a car for 150 thousand: well, as if he was flying to broom.
Of course, of course, there is a difference, but it is in detail.
- A person who first sets behind the wheel of BMW 745LI feels responsible for expensive equipment. And if an insurance company pays for a scratch - even after a tedious bureaucratic process - then the situation is much more worried about becoming a hostage thanks to the car. After all, there are reports of how three unknown persons of Caucasian nationality, threatening a pistol, put the driving by the car by proxy Ivanov Ivanovich in the back seat, after which they took to the region along the Kashirsky highway, where, having seized documents from the car and a mobile phone, they tied Ivanov to the way wood and disappeared in an unknown direction. With pain in the heart, a person on an expensive car without protection reads similar notes. But fear passes over time, and it turns out that the BMW 745LI gives more positive emotions.
+ During the time of Mikhail Gorbachev, a democratizer was called a rubber club, with the help of which the policemen brought into the consciousness of the intoxicated citizens from freedom. Now it is clear that real democratizers are not rough rubber sticks, but expensive noble cars. The autopilot has repeatedly written about all kinds of goats who want to ride quickly, but they don’t know how to do this, and that is why they cut it, they are alarm at a traffic light, they get it with high light and so on. But you got in the BMW 745LI. And people on the roads were transformed. You leave the side passage to the clogged avenue. No, of course, because of the respect of you, a vacuum is not formed around you, but to move from the extreme right row to the extreme left, even if you are separated by six lanes, and before turning in the left row-a couple tens of meters, not a problem. The people around, perceiving the signal of the turn signal as a request - they say, miss, it is very necessary - they do not repair obstacles. Or here on the highway. You are going, say, in Leningradka, outside the city. Here is a settlement, where the rules require to go at a speed of 60 km/h, and experience suggests that a traffic cop with a radar can grow a bush at any time. And you go 70 km/h. And not so much because you are afraid, just time to communicate with the inspector, even if you don’t have to pay anything, it’s a pity. In general, you are going 70 km/h, well, 80, and behind you are catching up with one of those characters who swear that from Moscow to St. Petersburg they reach in five and a half hours, and in Sochi - for twelve. And what? In the village, let's say, spoons, it rests against the gloomy, without any hints of coquetry with the surrounding world, the back of the BMW 745LI. And what does our racer do? He cuts the highlight and rapidly dives to your trunk? Not at all. It turns on the right turn signal - it turns out that this signal works in the overtaking mode even on Gelendvagen - and calmly, carefully overtakes you. S-Klasse also makes with the most fashionable thieves of this season. By the way, the owners of expensive cars relate to the BMW 745LI with great respect than the owners of the vases: apparently, for the latter, a silver seven is a car for those who did not have enough black jeep with chrome kangarin.
But the general impression of the seven salon is this: cute, intelligent people who have nothing to share and even more so prove to each other go along Russian roads.
+/- When journalists speak with a celebrity on a car topic, they are certainly interested in: how do you have a relationship with the traffic police? The star invariably replies that he does not drink at the wheel, but for the rest of the offenses - well, who will take money from the star?
BMW 745LI stop. The record was set during a trip along the Center-Krasnogorsk route across the Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway: they slowed down seven times under the pretext of checking documents and a state of intoxication. Well, this is Rublevka - the inspectors there for expensive cars and conversations with their owners are not used to. In addition, our usual numbers and ordinary glasses. And another time it was that the seven, which went to overtake through two solid, the inspectors did not want to see point blank. They probably realized that a person was in a hurry, and entered the position. A curious conversation took place in one small town near Moscow, where BMW was stopped for excess speed by 15 km/h (65 instead of 50!). The inspector looked at the first BMW 7-ER, then his VAZ-2107 said: I have been standing on the road for a long time. And I just don’t stop honest people ... That's an interesting thing: if sometimes, what to hide, I want to be mistaken for the owner of the seven, then in communication with the inspector there is a desire to mate under the driver, to whom the chef, the infection, the second month delays salary.
+/- How does the seven behave on the road? As an ordinary, very good car. Easily accelerates - sometimes you can even apply the verb shot, slowly inhibits. Plus to that is difficult to convey by words solidity in motion. Weight. Mass and comfort. However, comfort for some time has become violated by an incomprehensible roar in the suspension: when moving around ordinary Moscow courts, it sounded quite clearly. And if for the first time it was still possible to assume that they misheard, then it later became clear: this is not a deception of hearing and a car of such a class with a mileage of 5,000 kilometers occurs with a suspension. Turned to the dealer. They could not immediately accept there - after the usual series of holidays for Russia, a queue formed. Then they took the car and phoned: the whole thing is in the steering rack. It was replaced to us, but casually noted that Reika is a problematic part in the new seven. A new sample rake has already appeared, but alas, we don’t have one yet. The unpleasant sound disappeared. And the seven again became an ordinary car, very comfortable and dynamic. It resembles only in the parking lot about the size: although Parctronics display the outlines of the car and the obstacles surrounding it, this does not mean that the driver can not fade anything. Firstly, when moving in front of the parking sensors, it is necessary to include forcibly: it itself is not activated even at a minimum speed of twenty centimeters from the obstacle. Secondly, the system has dead zones. And the bumper fully painted in the color of the body clearly will not forgive the mistake. At the same time, there were a protective rubber strip, scratches on the previous seeds on the bumers. Maybe someone will say that that car looked bad? Not? Then, it seems, we are talking about global conspiracy of automakers and service stations.
Text and photo Sergey Sherestnikov

Costs (May 15 - June 15)
Mileage city/highway - 1300 km
Gasoline A-98 (225 l) $ 95
Moika $ 40
Washing liquid $ 10
Total $ 145
 

Source: "Autopilot"