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Why BMW X6 is an even more powerful motor - 4.4?
BMW X6 4.4 is not for fun. It was created to inspire a sacred thrill. This is what other status -sizes in the workshop look. All of them are black, they are all more powerful than necessary for real life. The theme of our today's colloquium set BMW X6 with a large engine of 4.4 liters. But, I'm afraid this engine will change little. I will say more, I went to X with the sixth with a 3.0 l engine (acceleration to hundreds in 6.7 seconds) and, when I moved to the most sophisticated equipment of 4.4 liters with acceleration to a hundred in 5.4 seconds, I did not feel anything sophisticated. Maybe because the shelf of the moment in a small version begins at 1300 revolutions, and in large ones from 1750?
In general, this is far from the case when you changed the version 3.2 liter of Volvo XC90 for a complete set with a 4.4 -liter engine. I already doubt that in the BMW X6 you can even feel anything. With his aura, he freezes any emotional manifestations. Such a machine, probably, is good to crush the demonstrators, it will frighten them more than the primitive riot police vodomet.
What is inside? Perhaps everything has long been described, except that in addition to a combination of black matte plastic with brown varnished wood. The design concept of maple in chernozem. It looks unappetizing. Nevertheless, in X6 there are two excellent things: it is wider and lower than his fellow X5. I always said that a quick sports SUV is as unnatural as an armored newspaper kiosk or a children's warehouse of radioactive waste. But a fast SUV-Cup is a completely different matter. A low center of gravity makes the racing more attractive. But there is no reason to drive up to hundreds in 5.4 seconds. Well, there are no such places outside the racing track where you can get pleasure from it. Everyone knows this, but the rich and famous continue to buy up the crossovers. Today, X6 overtook the sales of X5.
The top motor in the X6 line develops 407 horsepower and 600 nm of the moment. It is a pity that you can’t feel with all this goodness that the two-hundredth Seat altea Freetrack, Subaru Forester, Mazda CX-7 is given. They are slower, but much more fun. The Bavarian x6 is too serious to convert their characteristics into the sparks of joy. Maybe he will be saved by yellow color and airbrushing from the cartoon? .. Like the nineties have gone without a trace, dissolved in jokes, but there are no steep boys still traveling, although quite decent people are driving. For them, BMW as an iron door with a safe lock, like a virtual grenade launcher. But back to the test. I do not like a heavy and thick steering wheel, but for such a car it is, perhaps, to the place. Obviously, the X6 is excellently controlled, although the payment for this is excessive feedback. A powerful engine is waiting for two turbochargers. I like an atmospheric character, but, I repeat, x6, a very successful model on the market, people do not think about such trifles.
The active rear differential x6 created for sports maneuvers also helps on off -road. I drove diagonally on the hill and, not calculating the length of the base, sat on the left threshold. Any other heavy SUV would ask for a second attempt, and this one, having cleared clockwise around the support point, calmly climbed to the top. We have repeatedly argued that the latest edition of X-Drive behaves quite well on the impassability, and this was once again confirmed. And as for a powerful motor, then he is as much as possible to the place of Das Ist Fetish, I-I.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [November /2009]
