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BMW X3: Episode Second

Despite the increased dimensions and optional load, the new X3 is about 25 kilograms lighter than the old version.

Colleagues often reproach me in some bias in relation to cars of any nonsense marks and in too obvious loyalty to BMW. And in response, they most often get a banal-duty officer like: Well, yes, I drive them, I have them whole two although in fact this very loyalty in our relations with the famous brand there are no five or six years at least.

Modern Bavarian cars have long been not perfect and certainly not so good to manifest themselves to be the best in the world. But the whole horror of the situation is not even in this: the car with the propeller on the hood your correspondent really like. But if today I would suggest to change your voted BMW views on any of the currently produced, I would at least think firmly, but as a maximum refused. And from the old x3 first.

This crossover did not for, but contrary to. And if X5 really fit into the trend, then his younger brother seems to me, the Bavarians did an ambulance hand, only in order to stake in the segment. As a result, it turned out some kind of crossover, in which there was always something wrong: for an expensive car, it was too cheap (at least inside), for a parkerchief and too tough, and too close, and too expensive. He had an excellent ACP, besides, he decently traveled with some motors, but again only on asphalt. We risked to descend from heaven with surprise, we discovered that together with a body kit left a couple of levers, and mutilated protection threw some xDrive element. In general, it was almost the first BMW car, after which there was a clear and meaningful question in my head: why did it do it at all? It's like landing Americans on the moon loudly, pathetic and inefficient. Therefore, in fact, for the next three decades, no one never flew there. The same with x3. He played his role, and after a couple of years after the launch, the interest in the model and the clients also disappeared, and competitors.


The START / STOP system in theory saves a lot of fuel, but in the rhythm rhythm of the metropolis, it interferes more, so it is easier to disable it.

But against the background of the predecessor, the new X3 is huge progress. Questions to it are much less. In addition, with his appearance, it was hoped that the cars of this brand will finally acquire their former face. Oddly enough, the car looks like the normal modern BMW should look like. In any case, she is a tougher new five with her lifeless outgrowth (here it was necessary to compare with shark) and certainly athletic than the current X5, similar to the manager in a velor sports suit, trying to settle the treadmill in the fitness club. There is still more or less in the case: the headlights stopped being Korean, and at least some kind of cheerfulness appeared on the face. But the main dimensions. Now they are almost like the first x5. Hence, in fact, all these advantages in the cabin.
   

Capacity of the h3 trunk at the C-class hatchback levels. In denomination, no more than 500 liters of boot.

Although, frankly, to join the game Find ten differences pulls and in this case. Reference can be almost any relatively fresh BMW, whether it is related X or the top five. It seems that BMW interiorners were given the same task with certain introductory. They created a couple of dozen projects similar to each other, and then someone at the top thought that it would be great in turn to insert them into every new car. So in the new x3, the GT cockpit could appear, and vice versa. But seriously, despite all its corporate, in this crossover, at least one very important point was manifested: Banglelovsky window sills finally began to evolve. While it is not very noticeable and is like an accident, but if this turns into a tendency

And the fact that the Bavarians finally began to think about the rear passengers, it is already quite tangible. By the length of the cabin, this crossover is far from X5 and not even the first generation of it (although with the last one in this parameter it has become very strong), but the front sediment is no longer necessary to press to the cockpit, so that at least one adult is placed. And the places are more here not only in front of the knees, but also above your head. Here the trunk is still a cross between a penny and treshka: the children's seat will fit, but, having stopped in a supermarket, you still have to move it to the salon. However, it is already little things. X3 became quite comfortable, and this is the main thing. And the previous Bavarian balance was shown in it. Riding.

The lack of balance is what I categorically do not like the current X5. He is fast, but he has a terrible adaptive suspension that only takes you the first ten kilometers, and then you come to the conclusion that the saved money would be much easier to put on the purchase of a normal set of wheels (and preferably with the profile, at least twice the thickness of the cigarette packs). But this is just one of the few problems. That's for sure that it would not be worth spending, so it is an active steering wheel, turning riding on the car into a fascinating attraction guess, at what angle I will turn now.

Imagine that you are traveling on x5 on the road at a speed, say, 100110 km / h and you need to be rebuilt (do not fulfill with many colleagues a power test, namely rebuilding from a number in a row). And do it enough quickly. Not so much to dissipate the neighbors, but also not to adjust the Tugamum in front of you. So, if you do all this (like on any BMW, not burdened by Active Steering), the remains of the car you will have to scrape from the bump or to choose from the ditches on the side of the road, where you are guaranteed to fly away, waving the habit of steering. You need to simply breathe on the ram, so that it deviates for a couple of degrees and stood in place. Wildly annoying feature, since you never know where this car turns next time. Honest word when I saw a new X3 on the car dealership in Paris, the first thing was scared that he would ride the same way. It was not even frightened, but I was horrified, because before that the idea flashed in my head, that it was possible, the first BMW released in the last seven years, which I wanted to buy.

Probably, it would be an option with a three-liter diesel engine, and not with a similar gasoline six, although the latter and gives the car some sportiness. But the main thing is that this crossover finally learned to ride smoothly and relatively quietly. The active steering wheel can be delivered here, but my opinion remains the same: with the usual rail, you too turn without difficulty, where you need, and it will give you much more pleasure, and you will not pay extra money with you. But I would leave adaptive suspension. The Germans, it seems to be completed. Sport and Sport +, of course, harsh, and on our spring roads, these modes from passengers are shaking all souls, but under normal coating they adapt quite decently, so why not. In Normal, X3 almost does not shake. And then the crossover becomes almost perfect. And very obedient, as he, in fact, was to be initially.

BMW X3 xDrive35i
SPECIFICATIONS

Dimensions (mm) 4648x1881x1675
Wheel base (mm) 2810
Road clearance (mm) 212
Mass (kg) 1805
Ragge volume (L) 5501600
Slave. Engine volume (cm3) 2979
Max. Power (hp) 306
Max. Torque (nm) 400
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km / h) 245
Acceleration 0100 km / h (c) 5.7
Middle fuel consumption (L) 8.8
Price (rub.) From 2 130 000
 

A source: MKMOBIL magazine [April / 2011]