Test drive BMW X6 E71 2008 - 2009 SUV
The situation is under control
A test drive of a truly German car in a truly American south? Why not, they decided in BMW, because X6 is collected in the USA! Mikhail Gzovsky went to South Carolina. Photo by the author and BMW. Soon another workshop will be built here, then the plant will be able to produce 240 thousand cars a year, the guide's voice sounded in the headphones. The joints bizarrely bent around, flashing with welding, industrial robots, carts with details rolled, and the body crawled. Yeah, here is the skeleton x6. You can’t confuse this posture: a short neck, broad shoulders. Ideal for a boxer! And the factory is also not confused with another: x6 is produced only in American Spartanberg. Engines, transmission and other large nodes float here from Munich. In America, the coats are cooked, collected cars and send customers around the world, including Germany. Your copy will begin to be made only when the order will not work for it here do not work here. There are solid pluses from such a scheme: both warehouses are not required, and there are no problems with implementation. Everything's under control!
This phrase could become a leitmotif for BMW-X6. The goal of Bavarian engineers give the driver more control over the road. Everything is subordinated to this law in the car. The patented concept of Sports Activity Coupe, in a free translation of a compartment for a sports-active lifestyle. Today, in the era of mixing automobile genres, no one asks how this compartment can be a five-door and with a 212-mm road clearance? Thank you, even though the salon was made four -seater, they got out, the colleague grumbles. But the sports spirit is also important, isn't it? It is not easy to make him soak over this heavyweight. At first glance, the idea is seen as follows: take the BMW-X5 Ambassador, block the back of the body, give the profile more expression. Install even more powerful engines, reconfigure the suspension, and x6 is ready! 
The very first kilometers on the BMW-K6 XDRive 50i version forced to press the gas pedal in the case and without. Of course, plow the sound. But there could be nothing to do with himself: a rumbling self -confident bass at close to idling instantly replaces the nervous roar of octave above with the overtone of turbines. If you do not release the pedal, then the music will pour metal and will keep you in suspense to the maximum six thousand revolutions. Everything, we are beyond the limit of speeds permitted in America, it's time to drop it! Hearing training is almost invisible to the vestibular apparatus: the body feels only a powerful, but very smooth pickup. Here ahead was loomed by the barrier of the Michelin testing grounding ground. After a short briefing, an introductory circle behind the pace car, and the operational scope. The XDRive all -wheel drive in X6 is arranged differently than in X5. The influence of the active rear differential was fully manifested on a carefully political track. At times it seemed x6 was going on aid, so confident
i felt at the wheel. If the speed of entering the turn was unforgivably high, X6 straightened the situation with a lightning -fast jerk of the stabilization system, preventing the developing skid of the rear axle. And no rolls! Reducing on puddles is also easily! Having increased the speed of the circle behind the circle, I never approached the dangerous line expired the time allotted to me. Later, from a 50-page press release, he found out what efforts it cost BMW engineers to force x6 to drive, almost in no way inferior to a light car. There are ADAPTIVE DRIVE and steering control devices here with alternating transmission number of Active Steering it is associated with the DSC stabilization system. She, in turn, unites a dozen more assistants, ranging from the usual ABS to the control of the trailer stability. I learned that the car has a certain brain center Integrated Chassis Management, which controls all these systems. And then I realized that it was extremely rare to feel the presence of an electronic big brother on BMW-X6. And if he intervened, then always on the case.
Having made this discovery, he was imbued with even greater respect, and the price ceased to seem cosmic. Is this not a magical feeling: you can do almost everything you want and realize that your inaccuracies are imperceptibly smoothing, and rude mistakes correct? The situation is under control I'll try to look at X6 and from our Russian bell tower. First of all, take into account that the BMW is far from ideal in combustion. The car is hard and shaking, largely due to the fault of low-profile 19-inch tires. And it is not sugar to sit in it, no matter what growth you are. It is better not to think about the fuel cost of 50i in the light of growth in gasoline prices. But all these nuances are nothing compared to the flight in which x6 will surely involve_x0008_
BMW X6 excellent development of qualities laid down in the X5 model. Field of sports, practicality and chic.
HORSEPOWER Flagship eight -cylinder engine X6 FUCK High Technologies. On a double turbocharging motor, this allows you to practically exclude dumping in turboyam and guarantees even traction in a wide range of revolutions. Supervisors and catalytic neutralizers are located between the rows of cylinders of the V-shaped eight. So it was possible not only to make the engine compact, but also to reduce the length of the collectors and increase their cross section, reducing the resistance at the inlet and release. The motor is distinguished by a high compression degree for the turbine unit that increases the efficiency. Direct injection of gasoline under a pressure of 200 bar through piezoform. Naturally, the Vanos gas distribution phase system has been applied.
The most affordable x6 in the configuration of the XDRive 35i will cost in Russia 2,516,400 rubles. The 30D diesel version is 90,000 rubles more expensive, and 3,164,400 rubles will have to be laid out for a top gas of 50i. The moment has come
The constant all-wheel drive XDRive on BMW-X6 is supplemented with an active rear differential as part of the Dynamic Performance Control system (ZR, 2007, No. 9). This is a conical differential with planetary programs and multi -disc clusions, closed electric motors. Electronics smoothly and extremely quickly (0.1 s) distributes torque, closing or blurring clutch. The difference between Dynamic Performance Control from other systems is that it is active, even if the driver releases the accelerator pedal. The driver can observe the indicator on the dashboard for the distribution of torque.
Mikhail Gzovsky
A source: The magazine "Driving"
