Test drive BMW 7 series F01 02 since 2008 sedan

Now you carry it

While the driver turns the steering wheel, the earth spins around people sitting in the back seats. This is a fact that does not need our emotions. BMW 7th series is the same fact.

For the first time, Moscow saw the new BMW 7th series model a couple of weeks ago. But the defiantly bloated classic nostrils struck the imagination much less than that the glasses of the car were not tinted. Here she is the Holy of Saints, but there is neither the president nor the film aid. There was no senior passenger, there was almost no one behind the wheel, or rather, I was driving a meter without a cap, but with a silk pink ribbon in my hair. This is not even a misunderstanding! Here, either keep silent, or spit in the hearts. So, not a word about it.

In Germany, they brought me to the old car to the presentation of the new car, and they took me off the new one. So simple! We talked about world markets, about the steering wheels, about the updated Idrive system, about reduced weight, about 3D navigation cards, about the secondary use of brake energy and the new model has become its own rights! Not a word about the boomer, not a word that in the whole world movie a car of bad guys was invariably seven, and now in the film the carrier 3 suddenly for no reason Audi A8 arises. Because in BMW they make cars, not cinema and not history.

Although this statement is obviously controversial. There are cars, around which there are so many conversations that they do not hear the sound of the engine, nor the squeal of the tires, or the end of the shock absorbers. And the first BMW 7th series in this list. Therefore, we will change the scenery: we take a picture of the car not against the backdrop of a night club in a former recreation center, but in a chic horse -sports club! So we will pay tribute to time, but, in essence, the essence of the machine will not change, the essence of the phenomena will remain at his own: Bavarian engineers with their almost space developments, seven with their technical characteristics, bad guys with their leather jackets, and test pilot Rekina with her pink tape in her hair. This is called world balance.

So, the action takes place in the most chic horse -sports complex of Moscow. The BMW car of the 7th series drives into the gate. The back right door of the black car opens, and it doesn’t matter from it. It doesn't matter how he looks. It doesn't matter what he does here. It is important that Russian scenery now coincide with European ones. The gates are closed, and we see a completely new car, which, however, has already seen repeatedly. We are in a hurry with conclusions, and in vain! Removing, the new seven is much more like Lexus LS than the previous seven. This is not critical, but symptomatic. LS models were simply lucky, she was born much earlier than the new seven, which, meanwhile, at that time, of course, was already conceived.

But this does not mean that the new seven was not lucky. Her karmic ailment is not at all LS or even S-Class (although they strongly interfere with living), but its own previous reincarnation. The generation of 20012008 was the most successful out of four, the most controversial in general and went down in history forever. What to do the receiver of the car that made a revolution? The answer, of course, is evolution. But the fact is that evolution cannot be done or committed. She can only be. As if in a liability. Not aggressive at all. Almost peaceful. No blood, except a little sweat. These are everyday life. Not gray, but workers. Everything is like in life, everything is like in business, everything is like in riding. Sparkling boots, a black tailcoat, a snow-white shirt with a lace toad and a brooch, and a drop of sweat flows from under the cylinder along the temple and turns into a stream and flows out of the collar, but the rider is calm and elegant, welcoming, he nods slightly to the judges. The work is finished, the performance begins.

On a giant screen, the ray of light grabs the line of the new machine from the darkness, and maybe this music draws in our imagination its features. The screen rises, but the picture does not disappear. Representation of a new car: a small successful show arranged by BMW for journalists, and absolutely no miracle. German calculation, this time our emotions. Notes for musicians playing to order. Everything that the new car has not for the driver (for the driver is a salary), but for the passenger: the corresponding level and unconditional comfort. In this regard, the test drive of the representative of the representative class should imply a relaxing test of the passenger seat, and where is the specialist on this issue? It is not so important that they think about a new driver in black costumes from polyester, it is important that this car is doomed to success from birth. Whoever says what! (About the previous generation, too, a lot of things were said). The cost of the standard version of the 750th from 4,020,000 rubles, long from 4,200,000. Does it really seem to someone that the new seventh series is a bluff or brilliant mystification?

Someone may consider that the test drive of the long-standing 750th from the author of Repinina, sacrilege, blasphemy, blasphemy, abuse. But no one thought so in Dresden. Because there are times for revolutions, but for loyalty and tolerance, for restraint and thoughtfulness. No emotions! Today we need technical solutions. Everything else is the issue of the 750th. At low speed, the rear wheels turn in the opposite direction with the front, thereby the turning radius is reduced by 70 cm. For a car with a length of 5 meters 21 cm, this is the best Christmas gift. The Efficentdynamics program, real fuel economy with an increased engine efficiency is that really cool! 22 l/ 100 km in urban mode in winter for a car with a capacity of 407 hp And weighing two tons here is what is modern. An infrared camera that recognizes pedestrians in the darkness of what it makes sense to talk about. And if they talk about surprisingly not enough sound insulation in the seven, you are surprised and believe! It's just that nothing human is alien to even BMW engineers.


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Text Alexander Nozdrin, Olesya Repkina


 

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