Test drive BMW M3 GTS E92 since 2010 compartment
Trauma of the soul
How do visitors to the zoo approach a cage with a tiger? With interest, but very carefully. It seems to be a civilized institution of this zoo, but, as they say, what the hell is not joking ... I had a chance to experience similar sensations, getting acquainted with the new BMW M3.In professional boxing, when preparing an athlete, it is customary to view the enemy fights and determine his strengths and weaknesses for the next fight. My evening on the eve of the test was given to an extremely exciting occupation - studying the table of technical characteristics of the car.
So what do we have? Two doors, four wheels, the steering wheel - is still bad. Wow! And the wheels, by the way, are 18 inches. Further-more: a 6-speed (!) Mechanical gearbox, a 343-horsepower (!) Engine. The maximum speed is 250 km/h (strangled for the sake of security standards), and the first hundred is reached in 5.2 seconds. It will be necessary to check the last statement by the Mississippi method, there are two mississippi.
Morning. First meeting. And, I will not hide, a frantic heartbeat. She is aggressive and elegant. Bamers, thresholds, chrome gratings on the front wings, humpbacked hood and wheels - huge sparkling wheels on damn low profile - potential evidence of the outstanding abilities of the machine. Family traits of treshki are guessed in it, but the impression that the Germans took some kind of BMW and hung on it, no. On the contrary, the appearance is whole and finished. Come on here understand: digital sound recording, for example, uses a combination of two digits - 0 and 1; In our case, the whole exciting composition, the entire sound pattern is recorded on the trunk lid using two characters - M3. Without combinations - a true connoisseur will understand.
At one time, it happened to drive cars, where every detail in the cabin seemed to warn: are you sure you can handle it?. The BMW M3 salon was created according to a completely different, peaceful ideology. Everything here is quite calm and respectable. Black leather, expensive black plastic with light inserts - beautiful and comfortable. Even chairs with developed lateral support are not squeezed (as in other supercars), namely support. The range of adjustments (by the way, electric and with memory) allows you to conveniently get a person of any growth with any proportions.
The list of options does not leave much to be desired - there is everything here and the highest quality: the most full electrical package, air conditioning, hatch, audio system
Having played enough with an electrician, I recall that this is still a car, and not a corner of rest, and it was time to go. Turning the key, barely noticeable vibration at the beginning, and the tachometer arrow rises on the scale. All? And where is the bass rumble of sports release? I try to wake it with a gas pedal. Somehow boring. Maybe open the window? ..
Now the pleasant voice of the release system is heard outside. An impressive herd of horses (I remind you, 343 pieces) behaves extremely delicately. Probably, practical Bavarians were guided in this matter in the numerous requirements of ecologists.
He said: let's go! And nothing supernatural happened. Calm touch from a place, a normal clutch pedal, a good power steering. Opening number times: on this car you can go calmly if you wish. Movement in an intensive urban stream does not cause any trouble. Until you touch the brake pedal.
The undistinguished colleague risked a couple of times to meet the windshield with his face when the car suddenly stood like a leaf in front of the grass from a decent speed. The degree of slowdown surpasses all conceivable limits. Probably, it is precisely such characteristics of the brake system that the machine needs in order, for example, somewhere in the German autobahn instantly upset it from 250 km/h to turtle 150.
However, in conditions of a dense city flow, such a quickness can play a bad joke, since the surrounding cars have the efficiency of brakes are much lower. Therefore, the correct inhibition algorithm on this machine will probably be such: a look in the rear view mirror, a light touch of the brake pedal (so that those who go from the back understand what you are going to do) and only then the most tender and smooth press on the pedal.
However, the adaptation occurs quickly enough and in the future, braking no longer strains, but on the contrary, inspires a feeling of deep confidence in its own safety. And as the city stream is growing, and the reverent trepidation gives way to the surgical to the excitement of the tester, it is time to find out who is what is.
While moving along the city streets, in addition to very civilized behavior of the car as a whole (excluding extreme brakes), a sensitive suspension was surprised. Expectations from a meeting with stiffness and uncompromising did not materialize, and thank God. The suspension that makes this machine to predict and safe, to everything else is very delicate in relation to the inhabitants of the cabin. During movement along the broken city streets, there is almost no discomfort, as if you were driving a large prestigious sedan, say, the BMW of the seventh series.
However, the slightest movement of the steering wheel puts everything in its place. The reaction of the car - as you say, the owner! - Lightning -bearing. There is no doubt: we are moving in a very powerful sports compartment, under the hood of which in the most prominent place there is a kind of warning to doubt in their abilities - the magical inscription M Power. The arrow of the tachometer, obeying the press on the gas pedal after the next switch up, instantly misses the entire scale, and the car flies, flies, flies
It is apparently difficult to scare two guys on the Mercedes S600, so they took the place to the left of us at the traffic light, at the super -row - to overtake and take our strip by the end of the intersection. No matter how! Green light. The first gear, the second, and the horizon with such an acceleration no longer seems unattainable.
The next traffic light interrupts the jubilant song of my soul. And where, by the way, is that Mercedes? It seems that the guys will no longer have a second chance to measure with us. We are too far
I note that all this dizzying equalibrics occurred in a normal comfortable mode. And if you try Sport?
The same name on the central console was pressed right on the go, and now I know for sure that the car (at least this one) is not a piece of iron, but an animated creature. She exhaled almost clearly well, finally!, All picked up and even slightly spent forward, although I did nothing with the gas pedal. So what are you really!
We get acquainted again. Speed \u200b\u200b- 70 km/h, third gear, engine speed - somewhere around 2700 min -1. And now - the gas pedal to the floor. A few seconds - and on the speedometer already 140 km/h! I do not know the sensation of the flight on supersonic fighters, but I can tell me how cheeks spread along the headrest, from which it is impossible to tear off the head, and the body is poured with a lead severity of overloads. And what is crazy delight, growing in proportion to speed.
... And now, if you do not mind, let's twist a little at that site? I would like to know you better. Acceleration in second gear is up to 40 km/h and - a sharp turn of 90 degrees. Stop. How did you do that? Let’s still open the same result: black beast writes a turn, like an accelerated tram along the rails. But the site is, just in case, not even asphalt, but concrete slabs with pronounced joints.
In another attempt to squeeze from the m3 what it is capable of, simultaneously with turning the steering wheel I drown the gas pedal. On an uneven coating, the suspension is scattered, and the machine is quite intensively breaking away by all the wheels out of the radius. The discharge of gas, the argument of the steering wheel, and we are returning to the original trajectory. Simple and understandable, and most importantly - predictable. (I take off my hat in front of the masters who created such a wonderful suspension.)
Acceleration from a place to hundreds of papers should occur in 5.2 seconds. Let's check? We went to the devil, the start is unsuccessful, but we continue. First, the second already? And how much did it happen? About six seconds - it’s not bad at all if you take into account the lost start and sparing mode. Not bad yes, it's fine, damn me!
O human curiosity! Even in the perfect we are looking for a flaw. And this is instead of just enjoying the time released by a mean fate to communicate with this splendor.
Now, after days, I am endlessly angry with myself. I just had to go - anywhere and as much as you like. Forgetting about all responsibilities and conventions. By car, devoid of decisively any flaws. So far, there would be enough money for gasoline.
But this is now, and then the salon was meticulously examined and it was found that there are enough places on the front and the rear seats, which, by the way, is not difficult to penetrate. The trunk, reserve and other prose are subjected to no less careful study. So what? The trunk is large, the back of the rear seat folds, allowing you to transport long -meters, the reserve in its place, and there is a tool, and an emergency stop, but what are we talking about!? All this is in any modern car, but the character is like M3 - go find!
In the evening, it was time to return the beauty to the father’s house (read to the car dealership) and try to forget more about the crazy day spent together. She will get a rich and respected person who will be able to pay a solid Kalym for her. Will it be a marriage for love? Don't know. Will he be able to understand and evaluate it? God forbid. And I'm leaving to heal the injury of the soul ...
Technical characteristics BMW M3
The body is a compartment
Number of places, people. - 5
Equipped mass, kg - 1570
Dimensions (length/width/height), mm - 4492/1780/1372
Base, mm - 2731
Maximum speed, km/h - 250
Acceleration time, C:
0-100 km/h - 5.2
80-120 km/h - 5.4
Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km:
- City cycle - 17.8
- country cycle - 8.4
- Mixed cycle - 11.9
Engine:
- type- 6-cyl., 24-valve., In order
- working volume, cm3 - 3246
- Power, L.S. at MIN -1 - 343/7900
- Torque, NM at MIN -1 - 365/4900
- power supply - distributed injection
Transmission - mechanical., 6 -speed
Tire size:
- front - 225/45ZR18
- rear - 225/40ZR18
The track of the wheels (front/rear), mm - 1508/1525
Wheel suspension:
- Front - independent
- The rear - independent
Brakes:
- Front - disk, ventilation.
- rear - disk
Steering - gear -rake, gur
Fuel tank volume, L - 63
Price, Euro - from 79000
Text: Artem Shurgalsky
Source: Magazine 5 wheel [07/2001]