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Generation X

It is hard to imagine that Mr. Xs from the glorious operetta of Calman began to suddenly call Mr. He. This would be equivalent to immediately let the hero go into the circus arena without a mask. But no less charismatic and no less overseas BMW X5 car in Russia is increasingly and more familiarly crying through an affectionate HE or, who is moreratively, Ha. According to the editor -in -chief of autopilot Nikolai Fomenko, this is completely no coincidence and means the consistent Russification of a glorious Bavarian car, which, with the advent of a new version, has become even more accessible and closer to the ordinary Russian motorist.
Priest in place. I admit honestly: the appearance of the new BMW X5 in Moscow did not become an emotional shock for me, a shock, and turned out to be a gray hair on the temples. I did not stop eating, drinking, sleeping and looking at other cars.
 
I am not against the fact that the new BMW X5 is the icon of its era. Only I iconized this car long before the mass shares of love. And he gave her a tribute to madness and several years of his life. And OD about the old BMW X5 folded a lot. As for the new X5, I experienced my share of agitation three years ago in Dubai, when the second generation of the Fifth of the Fifth there was brought to mind, hiding under a burqa from random views. But to me, in my acquaintance, and in the neighborhood, and in professional solidarity (we tested their sports cars, the Munich guys tested their own) opened both the face and the ass of this Gulitochi.
 
So, first of all about the priest. I drew attention to her right away. Even then, in Dubai, when, apparently, there was no complete certainty with the shape of this part of the car, the tendency was noticeable. They want to crush the ass. Not in the sense of removing the excess, but to remove it lower. The goal is obvious - to get rid of jamping. This is not from the field of physiology. This is pure physics. The old Ha has five with almost perfect dynamics, there was a famous jump that always had to catch. This added adrenaline and sports - it can even be said, a real racing - taste to the process.
 
The taste did not disappear. But the dynamics of the machine - it was at the expense of the priest - became different. The car became closer to the ground. By the way, I was deceived in my feelings of the dimensions of the new X5. I did not take into account that now the pleasure of the trip can multiply not by five, but by seven. By the number of people in the cabin. Because visually the machine has become smaller, as if it was a special model for the niche between X5 and X3. Although in fact she added, and added everywhere: in height, and in length, and in width. But all sports seizures remained in the best possible way. The car drives and is controlled very, very well. Just exclusively. She tucked into a turn even on ordinary rubber. Servotronic hydraulic wrap increases maneuverability very neatly and efficiently. When the car is disrupted, barely noticeable short pulses appear on the steering wheel, directed in the opposite side of the side. It turns out just like at a driving school. The instructor, holding the steering wheel, corrects the student’s mistakes. I would not order this option, but I would recommend the majority certainly.
The BMW X5 was the first in the contest of the SUV-2007 SUV, having won the title of the best in the category a full-size crossover and bypassing 27 competitors. In his segment, the BMW X5 remains the best for eight years. For the entire time of production of the model in the world, 616,867 cars were sold, of which 4189 in Russia. To launch the BMW X5 in the Russian market, the company timed the X5 Top Drive Experience project. Its essence in the distribution of BMW X5 cars for a long test representatives of business, art, and culture. The total number of test drivers is 25 people, including the long-standing boomers by the actors Gosha Kutsenko, Konstantin Kryukov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Alexey Chadov, musicians Andrei Makarevich, Garik Sukachev, businessmen Alexander Gafin, Ruben Aganbegyan and others.
 
Rest. Recommendations are not money. They can be distributed endlessly. X5 I am ready to recommend to everyone. No matter what they ask me about this car, I will find only positive in it. Car for five. There is nothing in it that could stop the buyer from the purchase. And I can’t say anything to dissuade a person from the new X5.
 
Another thing - am I ready to ride the new BMW X5? Answer - I personally are not ready. I moved from the BMW X5 to the Audi Q7 - a car that X5 is not a competitor. This is another car. She made me change the style and manner of driving. She made me change habits. That is almost nature.
On Q7, you can participate in sports shows, bring to the fainting of passengers, drive adrenaline for cholesterol plaques, as a friend says. You can, but you don't want it. Audi Q7 does everything that relax you. I am spoiled and praised by this machine. She forbids me to go into a turn, smoke rubber and creaking with her jaws. On the contrary, she covers you with a blanket, puts the pillow and says: Don’t worry. Let us come normally. Everything will be fine. Audi Q7 - this is quieter, less should.
 
BMW X5 is goodbye, old age. This is a more maneuverable car, more nimble, with the energy of the cholera, which if now immediately does not deal with something creative, then it will be drawn. Another analogy. You are a ride. And under you is a stringent horse. And not you him, but he drives you all the time: well, what, maybe, we’ll tear, the owner? It also seems to me that the BMW X5 is a very ironic machine. It is ironic against its owner, in relation to a person while driving. She puts it, provokes, starts. Say, come on, show me what you can, and can you do something else. This car gives the driver a call, and the driver must either be accepted by him or to rest. In Kia Sorento or VW Transporter.
Sales of the new X5 in Russia began in March this year in the following modifications: BMW X5 3.0i (from 65,000 euros), BMW X5 3.0D (from 67,500 euros) and BMW X5 4.8i (from 83,000 euros). The new BMW X5 is 18% more powerful and at the same time 14% more economically than the previous generation. The new V8 engine develops a power of 261 kW/355 hp. The new six -cylinder engine is 200 kW/272 hp, and the new in -line six -cylinder diesel engine produces 173 kW/235 hp. All BMW X5 options are equipped with a 6-speed automatic gearbox in standard design. As options, the latest achievements of the Bavarian technical genius are proposed - the Active Steering system that changes the gear ratio of the steering and the angle of rotation of the steering wheel depending on the speed of movement, and the Adaptive Drive system, counteracting the overturning of the car and guarantees maximum maneuverability while maintaining the comfort of movement.
 
Solaris. My next car will be diesel. My wife has already switched to diesel fuel, and I am waiting for an opportunity. Diesel is everything. I tested the BMW diesel engines on the track of the Czech Most Circle River. And the result was very impressed. In speed on the circle, Diesel won tangible seconds of the injector. The diesel engine is more elastic. On x5, it is spinning to almost 5000 revolutions, it has the maximum torque starts with 2000, and this moment, by the way, is 45 nm higher than that of the 4.8 gasoline engine. I also had a feeling when I went to X5, that under the hood is a 4.8-liter engine, and with the labeling of IS-injector Sport. Already in the near future, the solaris will win gasoline.
 
In the future, this is already an answer to the question about the off-road qualities of the BMW X5, which, they say, have become more expressed-finally the sowing approach, so that the car is one and for all occasions. So that both for the country, and to work, and in the feast, and in the world, and in kind people. How is it in our opinion. Emelya stove. The machine that goes mushrooms and will bring mushrooms a full basket, and will still capture the fish, pulling under water, and then emerge, call on the phone and report on the work done.
 
This is bullshit. We, Russian motorists, have too many complaints. But the car does not start at minus 15,-we will gloat. - Idiots, they did not put a cold start sensor. Of course, they did not put it. Because this car was not done for our missing latitudes. No one hoped that this stoosorot would be brought from Saudi Arabia on a dry cargo, disguising it under the sandbox, and would ride it in the nyagan. And insert the sensor - no problem. And to make an all -terrain vehicle - like two fingers. But you need an all -terrain vehicle - sit down and go, raise the virgin land. Need a city sports car - be kind, transplant. The world rests on a variety, and to equalize it with a sapper spatula is a dead end.
Full Ordnung. I am too great to go into the little things, ”says my friend. About the new Ha Five, it is appropriate to say that this is a lot of little things that make the car to others. By the way, when they tell me that 1000 or 2000 changes are made to the car, I believe in the word. Although I did not see the hundredth share of innovations. Yes, a different pen of the checkpoint has become-it has more aesthetics, claims to hi-tech, it has changed an algorithm of action. Parking began to turn on the top button on the lever itself. The Idrive system has earned so that seven education classes are enough.
 
There are still trifles, but they are all evolutionary. And evolution is always worse than a revolution. I would forbid all these facelifts and restyling once and for all. They are justified from a technical point of view, but for a good machine - carry death. The death of charisma.
 
The case of the Feylift of the BMW X5 (no, no, I did not forget that this is a completely new car. By the way, I note the way, it became more spy. The previous X5 was openly dispatial. And the new one seems to be disguised in the stream.)-quite special . And I realized why. I realized when I saw the price of the BMW X5 3.0D. Price - less than 68,000. This is below the waterline. Such cars at this price are not even hot pies. At this price, I would have hung a sign of orders on the door of the cabin. I explain such a suspicious cheapness only by the desire of BMW to uprising the masses. The fifth is planned to make a mass product. That is why the new X5 is so similar to the old. It was created for people who did not have money for the old X5, but who really wanted to buy it. The icon is in their hands.

BMW X5 3.0D
 
Diesel engine, 6-cylinder
Working volume (cubic cub) 2993
Power (L.S. at rpm) 255 at 4000
Moment (Nm at rpm) 520 at 2000-2750
The drive is complete
Gearbox 6-st. Automatic transmission
Length/width/height (mm) 4854/1933/1766
Equipped mass (kg) 2190
Maximum speed (km/h) 216
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.3
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 8.7
Price in Moscow from 67 500
Autonews.ru: Bavarz's gaze as usual is penetrating and irresistible, angel eyes still visually revive the car, and the view of the back causes associations with the asphalt. But do not worry, such a similarity is not related to the updated forms of the rear lights, the lid of the trunk or a black bumper with a pair of exhaust pipes, just as it is impossible to call rollers of the 20th radius wheels with 315/35 rubber. In front of the rubber is slightly smaller, but this does not affect the beauty of the disks, as well as on their main function - to additionally strengthen the stability, which the new front suspension gives the machine on the double cross levers, coupled with the last system of active stabilization of the body and adaptive steering control. Maybe someone will seem incomprehensible to someone, but only one thing needs to be known about all these systems-the car is uniquely holding the road.
Automotive newspaper Klaron: After a dinner, I caught a senior representative of the developers and asked him a question for a glass of fragrant Calvados:
- Is it planned to equip X5 with a more powerful engine? For example, 12-cylinder-after all, competitors offer something similar.
-- What do you! - From indignation, the German almost splashed his di. - A car with such a heavy engine is controlled worse. This is contrary to the image of our model.
Well there is no way. Although, if buyers again want something new, and this will promise profit ... everything can be. It is no secret that it is precisely marketing specialists that today dictate their will to engineers and designers. And they, in turn, have to solve the tasks. Sometimes - very successful.
Author: On the mountain road, the BMW X5 behaves like a sports compartment: scanty rolls, and you twice less with the steering wheel than on other cars of this class. But the main thing is that there is no sensation of synthetic driving: I feel great in both a cool turn and on a high -speed arc. Under one condition - if you do not bring the case to slipping. I simulated an error, I enter a turn with a deliberate excess of speed and feel how X-fifth floats out, without warning about this either the rolls or the fall on the steering wheel on the steering wheel. Of course, in a split second, a stabilization system comes into business, returning the car to the desired trajectory, but in this fraction of a second I already managed to hook the oncoming lane. And if you press the Sport button, which translates shock absorbers and stabilizers into a more rigid mode of operation? Comfort was reduced - the car began to tremble nervously on minor irregularities. But now it is more willing to dive into corners, and rotation has become more neutral than insufficient. It seemed?
“No, it didn’t seem to,” Yos Van As, a specialist from the chassis department, dispelled doubts, “in the standard adjustment mode of the AdaptiveDrive system, they really endow the car with easy insufficient rotation, which makes it more stable in the straight line.”
RBC Daily: with audio and DVD systems, the Germans in X5 completely arranged an extravaganza, offering a choice of many options, including a video system with a DVD player for passengers of the second row of seats, located in a glove box, CD- and DVD chain at the head of C The HIFI Professional system with 16 speakers, the sound of which is difficult to imagine the average owner of the car. But the owners of the BMW X5 can hardly be called average. The Germans erected care for their comfort to the rank of royal nobles of the Middle Ages. This can be stated at least according to the BMW Teleservices system that has appeared, which, if necessary, sends information about the technical condition of the car to the BMW service station. And the parking now has completely turned into a farce. The blonde to the ends of the hair with school education and presented to the 18th anniversary with a driver’s license with the help of a rear view camera will furnish a parallel parking of an ardent ace.
Vedomosti: The German Auto Concert decided to start the Russian market for the updated version of the BMW X5 car with a star test drive. Thirty people, who are considered by the heroes of our time in BMW, received a monthly test drive for a new all-around in a luxury configuration at a price of more than 100,000 euros. Among them are fashion actors Alexei Chadov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Konstantin Kryukov, Kristovsky brothers from the UMA2Man group, Andrey Makarevich, Igor Sukachev and designer Denis Simachev. Among the businessmen who agreed to participate in the action were, according to the BMW press release, those who are difficult to even present as promoters-the Executive Director of TNK-BP Herman Khan, whose condition of Forbes magazine estimates $ 8 billion, and the chairman of the board of Novatek Leonid Michelson ($ 4.3 billion) ... Large businessmen rarely participate in such events because they support the image of financially independent people, said the President of the Contact Expert Agency Grigory Trusov. Other participants, according to the statements, will be able to get material benefits: at the end of the test drive, they will have the opportunity to redeem the car with a discount. In return, they should talk about their impressions of the media test drive, participate in a gala show for 700 representatives of the target audience ... as well as withdraw in the BMW advertising film.
Www.74 tv.ru: on a blessed by God ... Day ... True connoisseurs of perfection gathered on the flight field of Balandino airport. M-Service, the official dealer of the BMW in Chelyabinsk introduced the guests, those who can safely decide to become the owner of the icon of their era, the new BMW X5. At the presentation of the new Bavarian concern, a special atmosphere of elitism and luxury reigned. In this open place, guests fell in that era of the Middle Ages, which gave us the faces of perfection in painting, music and literature .... The present enjoyed the music of Handel and Bach performed by the string quartet. Against the backdrop of this bliss, the actor in the role of Shakespeare read excerpts from the work of Romeo and Juliet, and the guests tasted magnificent dishes from the buffet table. The presentation of the new BMW X5 began with a real fight of knights - the battle for values. And finally, in the eyes of the chosen public, the icon of his era rose to his blessed sky. To the sounds of Fanfar, BMW cars appeared on the field surrounded by beautiful horsemen in costumes of the knightly era. Before the gaze of those present, perfection itself appeared - the icon of their era - the BMW X5 of 2007!
Text Nikolay Fomenko photo Andrey Danilov
We thank for help in organizing the shooting of BMW Rusland Trading, (495) 781-3400, and the Russian Automobile Federation.
 

Source: "Autopilot"