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M-revolution

Having read the description of the new BMW M5, we suggested that the car would not disappoint us. However, Emka surpassed the most optimistic expectations.
 
How this is infuriated: for the first time you get behind the wheel of a brand new M5, but instead of annealing to a fullest, I have to weave in a traffic jam! The sparkling dream of desert autobahns does not go. Damned road work! But the cork is slowly absorbed. Eyes escort the sign of cancellation of speed restriction. Box in manual mode. Squeeze shock absorbers as much as possible. A flash of a turn signal, an empty left row. Gas to the floor. Hallelujah!
 
Once, two, three, four - it counts the left steering wheel minus knife, the seventh gear is replaced by the third, and the tachometer arrow grows to the red line. Reading the devil, V10 spits a huge portion of torque, which immediately swallows the rear differential without a trace. Tearing the space with a piercing cry, the car rushes forward. This is the acceleration of M5. Explosive, unbridled, frantic, terrible. Like a potent drug, it causes a person a persistent dependence: I want to try it, more and more.
 
In the name of this car, there is only one digit, but in fact the M5 consists of many digits - large and smaller. Large are 4999 cubes of the working volume, the maximum rotation frequency of the crankshaft of 8250 min -1, more than 100 horses per liter of volume, 1890 kg of equipped mass. Small - 4.7 seconds to hundreds, 7 steps of KP, 65 milliseconds between shifts of the gears, three shock absorbers settings and one Power button, without clicking which, you will have only 400 liters at the disposal. S., instead of the relying 507.
 
The fourth generation of the M5 is not an easy -expected evolving model, it is a jump in the level of technology worthy of Olympic gold, against which the previous M5 looks like a silicon musket next to a homing missile. The new Emka engine is only a kilogram heavier than the previous V8, and this despite the fact that it has two additional cylinders (plus 58 of the cubes of the working volume) and develops the mentioned 507 liters. With. - 25 % more than eight. Munich managers managed to achieve this result by using the experience of building formula engines. This is even evidenced by the sound of the M5 power unit - it is almost the same as the BMW Williamsf1 car!
 
There is a two-way exhaust system made of stainless steel, 4 oil pumps (they provide lubrication with the most extreme overloads), ion control of detonation using spark plugs, a Bi-Vanos gas distribution system, throttle shutters on each cylinder with separate electric drives and, of course , the most powerful of the ever created BMW engine control systems.
 
The Supromosg M5 makes 250 million calculations per second, and each of them is dictated by one speed. This is a very fast car. Fast so that it will not be difficult for him to give some average supervision supercar under the ass. Moreover, for this, it is not necessary to climb the everest of torque - the maximum 520 nm, which arrives at 6100 min -1, since already at 3,500 the engine produces 450 nm, and 80 % of the maximum moment develops in the widest range - 5500 min -1. Therefore, it is only worth crushing the gas pedal, and acceleration, like a snow avalanche, collapses and rapidly carries you away to any of the seven steps of SMG transmission.
 
The mechanical sequental transmission with an electro-hydraulic drive has an automatic and manual modes (you can switch the transfers yourself by shaking the lever of the CP or by clicking on the petals under the wheel) and the Drivelogic function. In both transmission modes, they switch clearly and quickly - significantly faster than it would be possible to do with ordinary mechanics. But, choosing an automatic mode, you deprive yourself of part of the pleasure from driving a machine, so it is better to use it for movement in the city, and go to the manual on the highway. The Drivelogic function allows you to select 11 gear speed settings - six in the manual and five - in the machine, allowing you to adapt the box both under the lazy morning -surplus and to the racing manner of driving.
 
SMG not only allows the maximum use of the engine capabilities, but also helps the driver cope with the machine in difficult situations. So, when switching to a reduced gear on a slippery road, SMG will instantly turn off the clutch so as not to provoke the machine’s ski due to too much braking by the engine. When moving in the mountains, SMG shifts switching moments, which avoids multiple r going to the gears up and down on protracted lifts and hold low gears during descent to use the brake moment of the engine. The transmission also helps to move on the rise, preventing the car from rolling back.
 
EM five reaches 100 km/h in less than five seconds, and 200 - in a little more than more than fifteen. Spectacular start with slipping? For God's sake! With a trough control turned off, the car is able to erupt the puffs of smoke from under the wheels even in third gear. But in order not to harden the expensive rubber specially designed for M5 Continental Sport Contact, it is better to use the Launch Control function: it will start with the greatest efficiency. To do this, turn off the DSC system, translate the KP lever forward and hold it. We advance on the gas: the tachometer arrow hangs around 4000 min-1. Now it is enough to release the KP lever, and the car will begin to accelerate with the optimal slip. Until the limiter, a 250 km/h, the SMG box itself will overcome all 7 steps, switching to the subsequent transmission shortly before the tachometer's arrows to the red zone.
 
If you need to stop abruptly, M5 will easily do this. The brake discs from composite materials kill excess speed as effectively as the motor generates it. Riding the M5 resembles a racing simulator: he pressed on the right pedal - he rapidly gained speed, on the left - he rapidly extinguished. For a complete stop with 100 km/h, this car requires only 36 meters, and from 200 km/h - 140. The brakes inspire extraordinary confidence; The pedal force is selected very successfully: the slowdown is easy to control, the driver feels perfectly the limit when ABS enters.
 
But M5 is not only stunning dynamic capabilities, but also the appropriate appearance. Emke's aggressive appearance is given by 10-spoke alloy wheels of 19 inches, aerodynamic thresholds, hasty mirrors, four dumber trunks, gills on the front wings and a huge air intake, which have an eyeless smile, which reflected in the rear of the rear view, are given an aggressive appearance of Emke.
 
The basis of the chassis of Emka is an enhanced aluminum suspension of a standard five with kinematics, adapted to the non -legal potential of M5. Here is a system of electronic adjustment of the stiffness of the EDC shock absorbers and the adaptive steering wheel power steering of Servotronic. In the firmware of the DSC dynamic stability system, there is a special program that allows you to go through the controls in the controlled skid and interferes with the car only in a critical situation. The rear differential with an adjustable lock completes the picture. When one of the leading wheels begins to slip, a pump built into the differential, which supplies viscous silicone oil to a multi -disc clowing, begins to work with greater performance, increasing the degree of blocking. The smaller the difference in the speed of the wheels, the lower the pressure created by the pump, and, accordingly, the degree of blocking the coupling.
 
To combine all electronic options into one ball, M5 equipped Mdrive. Having launched the M5 engine, you will get a car with standard settings, but using a magic mdrive gin, caused by pressing the button on the steering wheel, you can increase the power, turn off the control control, make the suspension tighter and select the operating mode of the gearbox, in a word, use the potential of the car to the maximum.
 
Excellent chassis, combined with the perfect distribution of mass between the axes, allows you to prescribe turns with a very high speed, without fear of losing control of the machine. At the same time, the M5 Autoban rushing along the even canvas resembles a locomotive equipped with a reactive engine. The exemplary exchange rate stability of the car once once again showed that it was created not only for beautiful turns, but also for high-speed multi-kilometer marching.
 
And what about competitors? There is a little difficulty. After this test, traditional opponents such as the Audi RS6 and Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG seem too wooden, not giving the sensations that the new M5 is able to give. In the dynamics and pleasure of driving with it, Porsche Carrera S is able to compare, but as much baggage and passengers as in EMKU will not fit in that sports car. Competition M5 could compile Ferrari 612 Scaglietti with its excellent running qualities and a fairly roomy body, but the price ...
 
The new BMW M5 is the most amazing and perfect car in the classroom. A sharp steering wheel, a supermotor operating at the speed of the machine gun is a transmission, tenacious brakes and an amazing suspension, plus the opportunity to mix various ingredients from this list to their liking using Mdrive. Emka is not just a high -speed car, it is a bridge over the gap between a simply powerful sedan and an extreme supercar, capable of giving much more than each of these cars separately.
 
Technical characteristics BMW M5
 
The body is a sedan
The number of places - 5
Equipped mass, kg - 1830
Complete mass, kg - 2300
Dimensions, mm:
- length - 4855
- Width - 1846
- Height - 1469
Base, mm - 2889
Trunk volume, l - 500
Maximum speed, km/h - 250*
Acceleration time to 100 km/h, s - 4.7
Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km:
- City cycle - 22.7
- Zagorod - 10.2
- mixed - 14.8
Engine:
- Type - gasoline, v10
- working volume, cm3 - 4999
- Power, L.S. at MIN -1 - 507
- torque, NM at min -1 - 520/6100
Transmission - 7 -speed, SMG III
Tire size (front; rear) - 255/40R19; 285/35R19
Wheel suspension:
- front - two -winged
- rear - multi -link
Brakes:
- front - disk, ventilated
- rear - disk
The steering - rack, with gur and Servotronic
Price (in Germany), euro - from 86,200
* - limited by electronics.
 
Text: Maxim Stanislavov
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel