Test drive BMW X6 E71 2008 - 2009 SUV

BMW X6

Can a body of type be five -door like a coupe? And if so, why is Ssangyong Actyon not a compartment? However, okay: in everything except the number of doors, BMW X6 corresponds to this title. Do you know what is the main idea of \u200b\u200ba car with a body compartment?
 
No, not in sporting today, even station wagons are able to quench. The real essence of the coupe, his message to society, lies in demonstrative impracticality. It’s like aristocrats clothes to historical materialism, a knee-deep sleeve, sleeves. You look at this and understand that the bearer of this splendor in principle cannot do black work. And the sword is not a fighting weapon, but a duel or even ceremonial.
True, the BMW X6 has a real weapon: three liters, two turbines and one speed -fire machine. And the rest of the full toad. No seedlings in the spring, no trough in the fall. And in general, to hell with all its manifestations, and at the same time moral. If the BMW X5, on the platform of which is built by the hero of our novel, smells of status and implies compliance with social norms and concepts, then the BMW X6 blows an exceptionally beautiful life.
 
The salon of the new Bavarian crossover is four -seater, although he could easily accommodate five. The interior at first glance is completely borrowed in the X5 unless the front panel finishes is two -tone, for greater visual lightness. However, options are always possible with decoration.
But the ergonomics are different and at first it even seemed to us that the seats in the compartment are not as comfortable as in the X5 recently in the option with sports seats. That crossover immediately grew to the pilot, becoming a continuation of the body. And in X6, these cunning thrones require preliminary thin settings. For example, the lumbar background is complex, moving. The back is composite, the slope of its upper half is separately adjusted. In general, about ten minutes you understand what's what, then you set up everything for yourself and go for about five minutes. True, such difficulties of the option, as well as the leather finish of the seats.
 
 
A flat bottom, a hot heart and an advanced full -wheel drive system allow BMW X6 to be atrocious not only on asphalt roads
Dome for the head
It turns out to sit down behind myself with an increase of 186 cm, but I wouldn’t want to go so far away ... My head would have rested on the ceiling because of the roof, if it weren’t for a special round excavation in it, there are two of them, for each of the passengers. A funny part of a tall person is unlikely to climb into the back seat. But it looks funny, we thought about it too.
The trunk is not so small, but part of the volume is unambiguously eaten by a sloping roof. And yet there is a lot of places here.
 
Six to six
As I already mentioned, we got a test car with a three -liter engine in a row six about two turbines and an automatic about six steps. Not the most powerful version, only 306 liters. With. Which, however, is enough to feel hatred of humanity, confused under the wheels. Only the left row will be released and it will be possible to press the gas properly, as a comrade will certainly fall out ahead of you, who thought you were still far away. Well, yes, I was far but a second ago. And now here, I fry the xenon crop in your barn in a word, we could not develop a criminal speed of 200 km/h on public roads. As one owner of the BMW 750 later told us, it was necessary to constantly blink with high light. But this is rudeness, we objected. Ah rudeness? He was offended. Then drive your miserable 170. Honestly, I would generally move with the permitted speed rules, I usually like it more, but it is impossible on X6. It is worth relaxing the right leg, and on the speedometer already 150. Inhuman effort, you force yourself to slow down to 110, and the tail is built behind. The logic of others is understandable if a person on such a car rides so slowly, then he knows something. Probably, ahead of the ambush, no one wants a dad in a bee, and the movement on the highway is paralyzed.

   
A distinctive feature of the compartment strongly littered with the roof line. Licking smooth contours, a stream of air presses the body to the road
The front panel, controls are all borrowed from the BMW X5 unchanged. Unless the two -tone finish looks unusual, but this is the option
So there is no way out: I called it a load on the gas. Then sharply on the brake. And again for gas. And in order not to overheat the wheels and pads, for slowdown more often use the petals on the steering wheel: the pseudo -corner of the automatic transmission allows you to jump in several gears down. True, if you do not change the gear every two seconds, the machine assists the process under its control. And it doesn’t matter to him whether you twisted the engine before cutting off or not. I do not exclude, however, that the transmission settings could be changed using the Idrive onboard computer, but our car was forgotten by the system administrator. In addition, when switching upwards, it is inconvenient to burn to the petals, and using the selector if there are petals is somehow ridiculous. But the main thing is that the automatic transmission already works perfectly to intervene.
 
 
The battery of the automatic transmission is much more convenient for a regular selector: to control it is enough to roll your hand with a brush and press the buttons from behind two chairs. Perhaps this is a dignity, but on cars with a cardan tunnel, the middle place is really flawed
 
Nightmare on Tverskaya Street
We must pay tribute to the suspension settings BMW X6: the smoothness of the course is worthy. The car and broken asphalt is working correctly: softly, but elastic. Sport more clearly, in Comfort mode with a barely noticeable hint of swaying. But problems with trajectory stability inherent in the current generation X5 did not bypass the compartment. True, the rear suspension works more efficiently here, but the steering has crossed the steering. Cutness does not just make itself felt, she tries to get power over the machine. At speeds above 150 km/h, this begins to strain. And with slow motion sometimes too. For example, I stand in a traffic jam on Tverskaya, I study the state of traffic in the city through the communicator. The car touches in front of me and drives three meters. I, without tearing my hands from the electronic device, remove my leg from the brake and the BMW X6, by my own initiative, strives to the left.
 
Material: BMW X6
 

 
Books in the framework of the permitted
Perhaps this will sound unexpectedly, but the BMW X6 frankly pleased us on the field roads soaked in the rain. He has a completely flat bottom, like X5, short overhangs (though there are some plastic cilia in front of the wheels, but they can probably be neglected) and an excellent anti-wings system.
By the way, if you do not want to go into technical details or already know what XDRive is, you can safely move on to the final part. And if you are interested in why it works so well, we ask for mercy.
Instead of the center differential, the XDRive has a multi -disc clowing in the handout, which is controlled by the computer. With a straightforward movement along a dry road, 40% of the power flow is transmitted to the front wheels and 60% to the rear, but in principle, torque can be distributed between the axes as you like. More precisely, as it should be for a stable movement. Well, the role of the center differentials is played by the anti -boom system (DSC), which slows down wheels or, if necessary, strangles the engine. In principle, the usual scheme for a modern crossover. There are only two important nuances. Firstly, the computer receives signals not only from the sensors that measure the speed of rotation of the wheels, but also from the sensors that monitor transverse acceleration, the angle of rotation of the steering wheel, the parameters of the engine and even the degree of screening. This allows the electronic brain to act with a lead, making a decision before a slip has occurred. Secondly, the version of the XDRive that is installed on crossovers is equipped with a DTC traction control system and allows a small slip and even a controlled skid without disconnecting stabilization systems. This is invigorating and at the same time contributes to the tread self -cleaning, noticeably improving cross -country ability.
 
   
The fifth door opens stepwise: first to half, then to the stop. Why is it necessary, we never understand
In turbochargers of this in -line six, heat -resistant materials used in space technology are used
 
As a result, not parquet results. For example, we managed to get out of a delicate position even on a wet clay slope in a situation where it was no longer believed in a successful outcome. But no, smart Bavarian horses were taken out, despite the highway.
Just do not be silent
Honestly, I am ready to forgive the BMW X6 of its overflowing steering and a strange pseudo -corner automatic transmission mode. And even about Idrive, I’ll keep silent for a long time already said everything. Another no less pleasure at the wheel is upset and the BMW X3 gives very similar sensations on the off -road, which is two times cheaper and does not shy into every rut. So, if I suddenly have free money, I can’t force myself to buy X6, I am hopelessly pragmatic for this. Well, something else: in my understanding, the compartment should growl like a tiger born at large. And Bavarz's sound of the exhaust is too political correct. However, for sure the tuningers have already found a way to put him a voice.

 
 
Author: Savva Safonov, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranova
 

A source: Magazine 4x4 [November /2008]