Test drive BMW M5 E60 since 2005 sedan

The obvious incredible

BMW M5 is a technical masterpiece of our days. With a simple fact of his existence, he makes us reconsider yesterday's ideas about possible combinations of the properties of the car: mutually exclusive wishes for it are becoming less and less.
 
Night, the first days of December. Needless to say, not the best time for walking around Moscow. The evil wind in search of gloomy wanderers rummages through deserted courtyards, whose arches gap with empty eye sockets. Useless. On such a night there is nobody on the street. At my own whim at the dead four in the morning I get out of the house, probably I'm alone. However, the reason for that is, and she is waiting for my permission to breathe hard night air through the nostrils of ten thrust. There is no question of sleep: anyway, the BMW M5 does not let go of consciousness. This car is so incredible that you can only get rid of thoughts about it behind the wheel, where everything becomes obvious again. Otherwise, the adequacy of each of the sensations tested the day before and the truth of the perception of each of the traffic episodes experienced over time begin to cause serious doubts
 
The five -liter V10 with a specific power of power is more than one (507 hp) and the ability to instantly throw the tachometer arrow for 8! The seven -speed mechanical SMG KP with semi -automatic switching, doing this for 65 milliseconds of stop! The last statement contains a semantic error: not doing, but capable of making if you wish. I wish, and you just need to decide what to demand from the car in the circumstances. That is, when under the wheels the notland Autoban A5 is not a path of the old nourburgering, where the M5 is earned as a taxi, and not even the tilted serpentines of Italy, but the asphalt frozen through the abominable film of winter chemicals. When 19-inch discs are shod in the winter Pilot Alpine, and Sabina Schmitz is not at all behind the wheel. In this case, as well as on any other, except for attempts to storm a quagmire, there is a suitable combination of settings in the M-mode programming menu.
 
We choose the rigidity of the transmission: in the most fast switch mode, the latter cause strong blows. It makes sense to endure them only if you are trying to use the dynamic potential of the super -sedan (4.7 to 100 km/h) to the last drop. In addition to the concussions of the pilot’s body, which will become obsessive, you just have to move away from the purely racing style of driving to the road, these jerks each time take the drive wheels into the slip. Today it makes sense to go down to two (out of five) positions towards smoothness.
 
The rigidity of the suspension and the adjustment of the steering amplifier combined with it is in Sport. The dynamic stabilization system is in an intermediate state between the basic option of the system and completely sleeping electronics. For the last I have no stupidity. This intermediate state M Dynamic Mode is called: the system allows strong slides, but still joins. As a last resort.
 
And finally, the engine. Would you like only four hundred horses, or harness everyone that is? And if you are five hundred seven, what kind of character to endow them: normal or hypertorizing? In winter, this resembles a choice of how it is preferable to warm up breakfast: a personal nuclear power plant, or will it still be faster at an atomic bomb?
 
Acceleration of acceleration! The same acceleration indicators to hundreds are perceived by completely different cars at the wheel of various cars: in a fragile shell of the English relatives, or when you are bandaged to the bucket, lost in the interweaving of the pipe of the frame of the racing box, or among the same, as if from an incubator, neon scales of self-expression of tunniks. Japanese turbotics.
 
M5 is a massive sedan with an excellent chassis. Acceleration on each of the programs in it is a sling tent to the stop. It is so direct and concrete that you can touch it, and so perfect that against its background, even the incredible sound of a multi-liter V10, singing on insane 8000 min-1, its song with a hoarseness of odd timbral coloring.
 
It is cold today, and after each shot of turning on the next gear, a good car 100-200 meters continues to accelerate, without getting the rear wheels in the front trail. M5 annihizes the entire road trifle, drawing the way into himself with tight sips. The movement is so powerful that it is simply useless to look in the mirrors: the space that ended up in the way M5 was turned into motion, and now there is a void, which will not be delayed immediately. Switching down on braking, you hang on a belt. Nevertheless, the enjoyment of the sound of short codes that the car is automatically makes, trying to protect triple -armed synchronizers of the CP, stronger than the storm of these overloads
 
Living in this mode for a long time - not everyone likes. And daily for a long time to be in a car that regards every memory of an accelerator as a signal for a jerk, and each gear shift - as a mission of saving tenths of a second, is tired of anyone. And here (in relation not only to Day at the Races), the M5 has its own slaughter arguments.
 
Yes, the basic mode for the iot is less convenient than the habits of an ordinary five: there is a constant gear ratio of the steering mechanism, and the steering wheel itself is very light. The box does not work as smoothly as a traditional automatic machine, and a completely loose chassis does not reach the control of controllability, say, a three -liter sedan. However, this is still, speaking conditionally, Erzats in case of fatigue and a minute desire to escape from a beloved woman-vamp to a bakery housewife.
 
Still, the main mode of operation of the machine is M. and it allows you to consider it the possibility of detailed programming. All these subtleties of using the M-Men turned out to be pressing and useful: I repeatedly drove the car under the changed mood. And not out of a desire to play with buttons.
 
To be able to manage a sports car, in which they found the use of truly racing technologies and technical solutions, and, without transplanting into another machine, use almost all the benefits of comfort and entertainment that the premium sedans are able to provide today - a rare opportunity, and 120 thousand euros do not look like high price for a similar car.
 
M5 can be incredibly a lot. Neither snow, nor cold, no young lady driving him, but the only Russian restriction for the M5 at the other pole! And it consists in the fact that he, unfortunately, will not be able to demonstrate his best qualities somewhere within the Central Russian Plain.
 
+ The possibility of thin settings, technical perfection, dynamics and handling.
- The lack of worthy roads and tracks in Russia.
 
Technical characteristics BMW M5
 
Equipped mass, kg - 1830
Dimensions, mm:
- length - 4855
- Width - 1846
- Height - 1469
Base, mm - 2889
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 - V10, 40 -valve
- working volume, cm3 - 4999
- Power, l. With. at MIN -1 - 507/7750
- torque, NM at min -1 - 520/6100
Transmission - 7 -Test., SMG Drivelogic
Tire size:
- front - 255/40R19
- rear - 285/35R19
Price, euro - 123 800
 
Text: Dmitry Sokolov
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel