Test drive BMW 7 E65 E66 2005 - 2007 sedan

Modern classic

The Bavarian flagship is modernized. One of the most luxurious and perfect cars of our time has become more convenient, faster and more comfortable. At the same time, the appearance of the seven is now more classic than the avant -garde prerestyled model had.
 
Spain is a relatively poor country. While driving the BMW of the seventh series, here, in the vicinity of Malaga, how now you feel the superiority of the representative BMW over the ever -hurrying stream of low -profiles. Such cars, like people who are behind their steering wheel (or in the diplomatic place) have their own road and their own ideas about the movement: even if they are in the crowd, there is always a distance with the outside world. To create such a sensation of one size of the car, there is not enough: there is also not enough to lag in time here. It is important to always be half a step in front of him. And the BMW of the seventh series makes these half a step along with restyling.
 
Five of the six engines installed on the machine became more powerful. The three-liter in-line six received an aluminum-magnesium head of the cylinder block, which was previously installed on the BMW 630i. Cars with indices 735 and 745 received, in accordance with an increase in the working volume of engines, nameplate 740 and 750. Grounded, though only in a technical sense, and diesel engines.
 
The seven went well before modernization, now her behavior has still improved, but already at the level of nuances. All engines that have completed the revision became not only more powerful, but also easier. This helped the designers achieve better hanging along the axes of an updated car. An excellent combination of comfort and controllability is the merit of changing the working conditions of the working characteristics of shock absorbers. The seven, like any other BMW car, can do everything on the road, but the car is most harmonious on the freeway or, on the contrary, near the pedestrian zones of cities.
 
You can, if desired, transfer the suspension into sports and famously burst into a pair of tight tests of cramped serpentine. The machine will work out the maneuvers impeccably and reliably insistence the driver by electronic assistants, hold the reptile stabilizers, but ... there is still some hidden contradiction in such exercises with luxury sedans. And oncoming Aborigines, instead of respect, are already panic, when, due to a turn, a similar monument and prosperity appears at high speed.
 
Compared to prerestyling machines, the track increased by 14 mm. You can’t immediately notice such changes on the go, but when you look at the Anfas car, these millimeters are visible. Changes in the exterior, in general, are insignificant when listing them, but have a significant impact on the emotional impression of the type of machine. The silhouette has become a little rapid thanks to the altered hood line, calmness and confidence that have replaced the technogenic coldness dominate in the eyes. New rear lights, thin chromium tapes, stamping line on the threshold - all this works figuratively, to create an image of a very expensive suit with perfectly ironed arrows against the previous ultramodern all -weather spacesuit.
 
Changes in ergonomics and amenities affected mainly I-Drive systems. With all the external versatility and the implied convenience of using it on the go, it is still not with the hand: the overload of the multifunctional input device is affected. However, living still became a little easier. Is it worth mentioning the possibility of viewing television programs or accessing the Internet from the side of a car of this class?
 
Another step, even a little better, a little stronger, a little more economical. Saying goodbye to each new BMW seven, you experience approximately the same emotions, and somewhere the thought is hovering that it will always be so. Because it cannot be otherwise.
 
Technical characteristics BMW 730i // BMW 750i // BMW 760LI
 
The body is a sedan
Equipped mass, kg - 1805 // 1910 // 2180
Complete mass, kg - 2385 // 2490 // 2680
Dimensions, mm:
- length - 5039 // 5039 // 5179
- width - 1902 // 1902 // 1902
- height - 1491 // 1491 // 1484
Base, mm - 2990 // 2990 // 3128
Maximum speed, km/h - 244 // 250 // 250
Acceleration time to 100 km/h, s - 7.8 // 5.9 // 5.6
Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km:
- city cycle - 14.6 // 16.9 // 20.5
- suburb - 7.5 // 8.3 // 9.7
- mixed - 10.1 // 11.4 // 13.6
Engine:
- type - R6, gasoline gasoline, V6 gasoline, V8
- working volume, cm3 - 2996 // 4799 // 5972
- Power, L.S. - 258/6600 // 367/6300 // 445/6000
- Torque, NM at MIN-1- 300/2500-4000 // 490/3400 // 600/3950
Transmission - atomatic, 6 -speed
Tire size - 235/65R17 // 235/65R17 // 255/55R18
Price (in Germany), euro - from 62,000
 
Text: Andrey Bazarov
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel