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The masculine beginning

The BMW M6 car is the best, Simply The Best, an impeccable and almost standard product in terms of marketing. This is a car that kills its target audience. And the target audience of the BMW M6 is wealthy and consisting citizens who go on vacation on a company with a young girl whom these citizens want and are ready to demonstrate how fast, strong and skilled on a tennis court and at a disco, under a sail and parachute, is a sail, under a sail and parachute. With scuba gear and with a mask, in flippers and in swimming trunks, and, finally, driving such a violent car as the BMW M6. So said Zarathustra Autopilot Nikolai Fomenko.
My acquaintance with the BMW M6 car took place at the dawn of my own racing career. The BMW M6 building of 1986 struck me with its uncompromising. There was no soulful freedom and nature of electronics in it. Just because then she could not be by definition. The car had a very powerful motor. And amazing aerodynamics. BMW designers and engineers jumped above their heads. Grace seemed to have descended on them, and they put the whole soul and all the talent in this compartment. No wonder that six was the favorite car of Ayrton Senna.
DOUBTING THOMAS. That boomer was ahead of his time. And when someone or something is ahead of his time, it usually does not end in anything good. From progress in the past, problems grow in the future - the pattern is almost one hundred percent. That is why I reacted wary to the new BMW M6. I at echoing Stanislavsky, I did not believe in the new BMW M6. I did not believe that it is possible to maintain the spirit of the old machine and at the same time put the achievements of modernity into it. But the great and powerful concern succeeded. And the impossible became possible. Although...
Although outwardly there are no harmony of classics and contemporaries in the car. As there is no surprise in her exterior. Everything that we saw in the BMW cars of the last years of the publication is present weightly, rude, visibly. Designers did not spend money on new patterns. The car has all the family signs of the family, which I would call the I-Drive family.
There is no surprise inside the car. The concern did not lower the bar, which BMW took with the release of the I-Drive series. Honor and praise. Comfort (for the same money in aggressive Porsche you will have only two seats, and not four, as here), the quality of materials, ergonomics, style - all over all praise. Nothing extra. And everything is in its place. Even on the dashboard, where there are only the most important 330 km/h speedometer for such a car and a tachometer for 9x1000 revolutions. Only then, when your gaze rests into the extreme values \u200b\u200bof these devices, on the periphery of their scales, you notice fuel sensors and temperature and a window with a digital gear. Electronic adjustments of the seats, mirrors, steering column, as well as navigation functions, I-Drive, DVD systems, etc., are selected with love. It seems that the car was running out on a focus group, in which the most picky, most boring and most meticulous customers gathered. Such clients usually carry death to network business. For they are dissatisfied with everyone from birth.
I am sure that even such types cannot but bribe the BMW branded projector, which transfers a picture with data on speed, revolutions and selected transmission to the windshield. This is extremely convenient for active driving. This is very cool. This is very sporty.
Wake the cat. It is easy to make a real sports car from the BMW M6. Another question is whether her buyers want this? The fact that the M6 \u200b\u200bcan go so quickly that the roadside pillars will seem to be a picket fence is undoubtedly. In principle, the six can go even faster. So, at some point you can see the rear number of your own car!
There is potency in it. And the potency is crazy. In the colorful oriental tongue, BMW M6 is a sleeping cheetah. A cheetah awaiting his frantic hunter. This machine in its chromosomal set was created for FIA GT championships, and the BMW M6 arrival in GT, by the way, is expected by many in the very near future.
But in the form in which it is sold now, this is a semi -finished product. Which I personally would not buy. Such a half -consumption of the car does not suit me. This is generally blasphemy - to have 500 forces under the hood that cannot be used. Just because in the city there are no places where these horses can be assembled in one herd. In Moscow, as well as in London, Paris, Rome and Brussels, he is useless. In the big city, such a device serves and will serve only one goal - demonstrating the status of its owner.
But if the roads in Europe and the adjacent Central Russian strip would become as unlimited as the Autobans of Germany ... Oh, then another thing! True, in this case, I would ask BMW Motorsport GmbH workers or sensible mechanics from an authorized center to make some changes. Firstly, I would reduce the speed of gear. The chip, which controls the gear shift and extending, is configured to a regular driver. And it is felt. Secondly, I would make the suspension harder, removing, for example, stabilizers that interfere with their backs. Thirdly...
But Stop. If you do it with M6 and thirdly, and fourthly, and fifthly, it will be a ready-made GT version. But buyers are convinced, they do not want and will never love the GT car. For a GT car, you need desire, skill and will. In GT you need to work, sweat and get tired. This is completely devoid of comfort, a hard, ascetic car. Moreover, as traffic cops are expressed, this is a means of increased danger. Prohibitive danger. The dangers of the six are not necessary for potential owners.
Today, BMW M6, even if you forget to press the brake, stops on time. This car, no matter how powerful, fully meets the requirements of Euro-5 and Euro-10. This car protects health. You will not perish on it, making even a monstrous mistake. He is obedient and humble. He is civilian. Any driver of category B. and the whipped Jappi, and the pot -bellied retired chairman of the collective farm, and ambitious weeds from the first course of the university can manage it. But this car, of course, is not for everyone (and not only the financial qualification narrows the circle of applicants for its steering wheel). He is for those who have gunpowder in powder, and ... well, then you know for yourself.
Power Man. The BMW M6 pathos will be even stronger than that of Bentley Continental GT, with all my respect for Bentley. This pathos in a projector, a Kevlar roof, 19-inch discs, a 7-speed box that came straight from Formula 1. He is in the Revas of the V10 motor, listening to which I remembered one wonderful advertisement. If I am not mistaken, it was just BMW advertising, it is difficult to say exactly which model. In advertising, the boy plays cars. He sees them alternately, rolls on the floor and copies the sound of a working engine. So all the cars were published in his loud zh-g-h, and the advertised machine only quietly rustled the shhhhh. V10, what can I say, far from shhhhh. Let it not be compared with ours, Fia GT, by his decibels, but his wolf roar is heard well.
From the abundance of driver buttons in the cabin, the driver may have a mania of greatness. It is possible that, having mastered them, he will begin to think about vacancies in Skuderia after the departure of Schumacher. The M6 \u200b\u200bhas both the boxes under the wheel, and the stiffness of the stiffness of shock absorbers operating in KomFort, Normal and Sport modes, and the DSC and ESP stability control system buttons, and the MALLICAL CLISHING MOUSENTION MOSENT OF THE DYNOMIC MEDIM, which seems to be used exclusively On racing tracks. There is even a Power button here - the owner of the M6 \u200b\u200bshould show it first of all - allows you to allegedly lift the engine power from 400 to 507 hp with a light movement of the hand. I pressed this button. And he did not feel any energy tide. Although, I will say without boasting, I quite subtly feel the difference in high capacities. Perhaps this tide occurs at speeds above 150 km/h. And I had nowhere to accelerate in the capital faster.
The answer to Chamberlain. A letter came to the editor. And not one. In the letters, I was reproached that I did not leave the bone on the bone from Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII. Now the editors should expect a new portion of letters in which I will apparently blame that, scolding one car with obvious claims to sports, I praise another. I answer in advance. The BMW M6 has a claim for sports (and there is all the data for this), but there is no pseudo -field cult. In this car, people will not consider themselves equal to Sebastian Leb. They will feel like a macho, with emelomes on the stove, taking them at the pike command. This is a comfortable car in which it is simply nice to be. It has everything. And in Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution there is only a sticker on a dashboard with the inscription Hello, my little athlete. And all. Neither skin nor erysipelas. And only only claims. It is possible that for riders in short pants Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII is the limit of dreams. Perhaps in the dopes of Gukovo, where a speed of 200 km/h is perceived as a blow with a galbed log on the back of the head, this car is the king. But the king is naked. And M6 is clearly not a couple.

Text Nikolay Fomenko, photo Andrey Danilov

BMW M6
 
Gasoline engine, v10
Working volume (cubic cub) 4999
Power (L.S. at rpm) 507 at 7750
Moment (nm at rpm) 520 at 6100
The rear drive
Gearbox 7-speed mechanical, robotic
Length/width/height (mm) 4871/1855/1372
Wheel base (mm) 2781
Equipped mass (kg) 1785
Maximum speed (km/h) 250 (limited by electronics)
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 4.6
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 22.7/10.2
The cost of a car in Moscow is 152,000

 

Source: "Autopilot"