Test drive BMW X6 E71 2008 - 2009 SUV

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I was traveling to the celebrations in connection with the expansion of the BMW plant in Spartanburg. The factory manager and I stopped at our pre -production and only slightly camouflaged BMW X6 in front of the red color of the traffic light. Soon, Porsche Cayenne slowed down near us. The driver looked at us. And suddenly, in one second, his face lit up with light. You could literally read the excitement written on his face. Until the green light was lit, he held his thumbs up, showing us how much he was impressed.
It seems that the simple artistic techniques of automobile journalists by self-propelled penetrate not only blogs, but also into marketing texts and business spaces. Thus, there is a small threat of cross plagiarism, which can be attributed to the very story of a member of the board of directors of the BMW AG Frank Piter Arndt at the BMW X6 presentation, and a link to it. But since borrowings cannot be avoided, I would prefer to steal some more spectacular story from a high BMW manager. In my opinion, in the existing (and still few) lives, X6 lacks a real miracle, albeit invented, but legends, maybe a scandal, in shorter adequate PR-tribe car. And so the whole intrigue with the X6 came down only to the clumsy mystery, which was then shrouded in the prototype of the car at last year's Frankfurt car dealership. There, journalists were not stubbornly shown the salon. Now it’s clear why.
Because the X6 interior and this is the only thing that causes some disappointment in the car with the face almost completely repeats the BMW X5 salon. As if the old sketches for the interior design were deliberately carried past the designer department. In X6, the same instrument shield with the same devices, the same screen of the climate-entertainment-communications and all the same under the screen, the untouched gearbox lever on the tunnel and the I-Drive washer ... in a word, everything is done so that ( As advertising avenues usually assure) the consumer felt in a cozy, familiar and familiar environment. Nonsense, of course, is complete. Because in X6 it is impossible, it is not possible to feel in the usual environment. Even if the interior of the car would be copied not with X5, but with a favorite bedroom in a summer house.
The fact that BMW engineers really managed to create a vehicle of the new variety of Sports Activity Coupe, you can see using a test, patented by Winnie Poh, is included and out. The initial stage of the test is visual acquaintance. The result of observations to the observing ordinary crossover, SUV, parquet SUV. The next stage of the driver enters the X6. His sensation from the first minutes of being on board X6, if he does not stare at the frontal and side glasses, will probably be akin to the sensation in the real compartment of the sixth BMW series. His body is squeezed in the grip of a sports chair. He doesn’t think to fidget. The stilts of the knees are partially limited by soft plastic overlays in the central tunnel. In front of his face, a serious three -spoke steering wheel, with waterproofs without ten and petals of manual gearboxes (this is the basic element of any BMW X6). The bathing effect is also enhanced by a narrow, rather decorative than functional rear window, deliberate aluminum engraving called Flywheel and an elegant linen box for racing mights.
This effect, this sensation of a sports compartment does not disappear immediately, but it instantly transforms, as soon as the driver is looking at the side window or forward by the hood. It will seem to him that some invisible healthy people suddenly took his absolutely sports compartment and lifted it in his arms a meter up. To check it leaves the cabin. Before him is again tall and powerful SUV. Spectacular to insanity. Similar to the compartment, of course, but four -door and very jigging.
In general, I noticed that not all motorists have enough explanations that the X6 was made on the X5 platform. Many of my friends, hoping to get both accurate and comparative characteristics at the same time, did not ask me competently, but in Russian: but in size, how what? For them, I specifically took a photo (for the magazine it, alas, is not artistic enough), putting X6 side by side with X5. The photo shows that the upper point of the hump X5 approximately corresponds to the upper point of the roof X6. Visual equality in other dimensions. But the technical specifications indicate that the sixth, although lower (1690 mm versus 1775 mm), but longer (4877 mm versus 4855 mm) and wider (1983 mm and 1935 mm, respectively) the fifth of the fifth. Good, however, dimensions for the compartment!
But the driver enters again. It starts the engine with the button and lets the car Street forward. And now in his feelings complete chaos. He is high, he is flush with clouds, but he is still in a sports and very egocentric car. In such a car, it is hard to think about whether it is convenient to sit with the rear passengers or whether there is enough space in the trunk for the entire home belongings. As in any real sports compartment, in X6 is poorly consulted. The work of the V8-motor with a volume of 4.4 with double turbocharging contributes to this. Such an apparatus for the production of horse agility used to appear only on the models of the MS series. By the way, Schildik 5.0i, which BMW decorates its top model, serves as a spectacular, but false marketing beacon. And I already had to refute one hundred percent versions of some especially informed fans that it is supposedly a 5-liter V10 index.
BMW X6 tuning is directly shown, and, probably, not only the V10 to the motor, but the W12 under the hood of the car will be just right. But even the existing herd of 407 horses is not only larger in quantity than the 4.8th Lyu Fifth, it is more effective in quality. The arrow of the tachometer barely reaches the region of two thousand revolutions, the name of the heart begins for the drivers obsessed at the speed of the drivers. Even from a light touch of gas pedal, the body is fed back. If, on the gases, what is called to hit, not everyone survives from the leather cover of the chair, like from the Turin raincoat, you can subsequently receive negative imprints of the back and other anatomical parts. Sorry for the blasphemous comparison.
An automatic machine in a car is the advanced users like Nikolai Fomenko. It can not be transferred to Sport mode, it will work absolutely in sports. Do not switch up until he gets the good from the driver. And instantly, for one-two-three, to drop gears down when the driver decides, for example, to sharply brake to the hofmaster’s designed bending, as the designer bend.
We were given the racing pairs at a small Laurens Proving Grounds training ground near the place where cars make the town of Spartanburg. The landfill was divided into two areas dry and wet. We were waiting for ordinary snake exercises, permutations, accelerations. Ordinary exercises and unusual sensations for such a high car. They can be formulated as another entrance to the compartment. The car behaves as if he was a melt on asphalt. As if he does not have a 212 mm of a gap, but only 12 mm. Not the slightest hint of the roll. No straitness in maneuvers, no hid, no sigh, no dust.
On last year’s salon in Frankfurt, Dynamic Performance Control, which allows BMW to work miracles on the bends, gave a separate stand. It was not for nothing that she was presented under the slogan where others are slowing down, BMW accelerates. The combined work of Dynamic Performance Control with other systems allows you to effectively distribute traction not only between the axes of the cars, but also directly between the rear wheels. The driver can now not slow down, but on the contrary, it will actually screw into the turn of the electronics to add a drive moment to the rear inner wheel and remove it from Nuruzhny. The driver, however, is unlikely to notice this sacrament. And he will simply attribute the merit for his coolness.

Abstracts after
1. The X6 coupe in the company BMW probably see as a Porsche Cayenne killer. In terms of power and dynamics, both versions of X6 XDRive35I and XDRIVE50i are superior to the version of Cayenne 3.6 and GTS, respectively.
2. An important insides x6 Dynamic Performance Control system. Thanks to her, the slogan where others are slowing down, BMW is accelerated.
3. From the reader’s letter to the autopilot: X6 is a child of an accident between X5 and the BMW 6 -ER coupe.
 
BMW X6
Gasoline engine, 6 in a row gasoline, V8
Working volume (cubic meter) 2979 4395
Power (L.S. at rpm) 306 at 5800-6250 407 at 5500-6400
Moment (Nm at rpm) 400 at 1300 - 5000 600 at 1750-4500
The drive is complete
Gearbox 6-speed automatic
Length/width/height (mm) 4877/1983/1690
Maximum speed (km/h) 240 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 6.7 5.4
Fuel consumption, comb. (l/100 km) 12.1 13.8
Price in Moscow (rub.) 2 516 400 3 164 400

Text: Khasan Ganiev
Photo: author and BMW AG
 

Source: "Autopilot"