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stamp: BMW X5
country: Germany
based on materials: the journal "klaxon"
date of the publication: 12.01.2002 g.

BMW X5: furore removes mask

... Stir... Even some languor among the medium motorists caused the first communications, that firm BMW created extra-road builder. Almost yr model Khshch roamed 0 0N throughout the world, from one international auto-salon to another, exciting the universal curiosity, as if mister iks in the mask. Automobile could be looked, to touch and even to sit after the control, but... the most interesting remained the secret: which Khshch in motion? Than it is similar on other extra-roads builder? Finally, is similar it generally to BMW?

How many opinions 4 about it it heard, how many publications it read... And the possibility to tear away mask from this charismatic person here was occurred. To Finland arrived the first copies Khshch, ordered, by the way, for Russia.

After proving to be after the control Khshch, I tested a sharp feeling of the unusualness of proceeding. I sit, like, in normal "Bimmere". Interior resembles "five". Perhaps that proportions are slightly changed. However, sensation such, as if they raised familiar salon to the unusual height, and at the surrounding peace I look, as from the armchair of true extra-road builder...

Yet not to the end after being mastered, apparently, sharply I harvest to the gas, and I am here enraptured by unconstrained Grace, with whom Khshch it jumps from the high border. To drivers usual BMW such and did not dream...

To A now I I will distract your attention by entirely rather short excursus into the past BMW (can, sometimes it will prove useful - you will flash by its knowledge before the friends). The fact is that the complete drive, with which it is supplied Khshch, not novelty for the Bavarians. At one time company let out "three rubles" and "fives" with the transmission of "yakhya". But for the Russian winter, for example, this automobile - only half-measure. Thus, i have the familiar, whom simply without the mind from BMW. it drives on the Bavarian automobiles the year round. It in summer conducts sport "eight", and specially for the winter sought out well preserved all-wheel-drive specialist 52пX Touring. Specialists of one of the Moscow is center BMW pokoldovali above his suspension and they raised body. The complete set of casings from the extra-road builder completed the matter... From now on in similar contrivances there is no need. In Munich they created extra-road builder Khshch. By the way, you will focus attention: Bavarians preserved tradition, after leaving for the designation of all-wheel-drive model index "X". however,

thing in itself

... from the first is meter motion I it were presented the question: extra-road builder this or not? I begin to search for even answer on the asphalt. I rock baranka right-left first carefully on the desert by-street, and it is afterward sharper. Automobile with the predatory rapidity ryskayet by nose. And, which is amazing, there is no even hint to the slonopodobnuyu deceleration in such maneuvers of usual extra-roads builder! Automobile, as assumes 1000 sya "Bimmeru", it instantly and implicitly obeys to control.

To mole of god so that not there would be policemen, I substantially increase speed and, not sbavlyaya it, I pass several turnings. Yes, the persistent unwillingness Khshch to heel on the turns simply enraptures! And a feeling of the unusualness of proceeding again makes smooth: reflexes prompt that (thought in subconsciousness so nudit with this high landing: "let us go in the extra-road builder...") automobile is simply obligated "to be brought down" in the turnings. But body stands directly as bayonet! This is not jeep, but some sport sedan...

For the sake of fairness it is necessary to note that for the acquaintance to us it were reached Khshch, equipped the so-called "sport packet". It includes more rigid suspension and luxurious 19- one inch wheels, worthy super-sleeping compartment. And so, as to the super-sleeping compartment, the rear casings it is wider than front. You will agree, strange option for the automobile, which some aim to name the extra-road builder (American buyers they pay the remainder for this "packet" about two and one-half thousands of dollars)...

... the sequential portion of surprise presented brakes. Governing, let us say, Pajero or Land Cruiser, 4 always I remember that the jeeps impede worse than cars, and therefore "switch" my driver reflexes, let us say so, into the extra-road regime. It was not required after the control Khshch of this "switching". Khshch it possesses devilishly tenacious brakes - in the open depth of cast wheels live four disk pozhiratelya of speed. And in the braking Khshch behaves faster as any usual BMW, than extra-road builder.

If the discussion turned to the brakes, it should be noted that Khshch it is supplied with the newest adaptive ABS.. This is one of the components of the heaped electronic complex "Dsc- X", the guarding driver from insidiousnesses of winter road. Into it also enter protivobuksovochnaya and protivozanosnaya systems. During the short test we did not succeed herself in prove to be in the situation, where all possibilities of this complex would appear. But, if we believe to producer, they will help driver to preserve control over the machine in the most unpredictable situation.

... Finally arranges the points above "i" the absence of lever or switch of the administrations of transmission, which we privykli to see in the jeeps. The creators Khshch of sochli, that the reducing number of transfers here is not necessary. That zh, in my view, is completely reasonable. You will agree, indeed only madman will climb after the control new "Bimmera" into impassable mud this stranger for Khshch element. Carrying body, the not suffering the impacts independent suspensions with the aluminum levers, highway casings, not quite extra-road clearance in 18 cm... In a word, all that which makes Khshch with inimitable on the asphalt, it limits sphere of influence outside it.

But!.. But in this case Khshch it will always rescue you, also, from the snowy mash, and on the road boggy from mud. But will help in this protivobuksovochnaya system for the complete drive like those that has already been used on Land Rover and Mercedes- benzo ML. torque from the skidding wheel it throws to others, which more strongly are held for the soil. In other words, this system practically substitutes the traditional blockings of differentials. Thus far although one wheel is caught for the earth and it can pull automobile forward, remains chance to be pulled out from the trap.

Khshch it inherited from Land Rover one additional thing. It is called "Hill Descent Control" (HDC) and serves in order to artificially limit speed on the steep descents. We used it, when unexpectedly and at the very decent speed they departed to the iced up hill, which steeply exits downward to the Gulf of Finland. Incline was degrees for thirty, road was rolled to ice, but, fortunately empty, and it literally carried us. Here then 4 it harvested on the front panel key "HDC". Something there inside occurred, automation itself calculated safe for this situation speed, and after only several seconds we crawled downward not more rapid than the pedestrian. This system will rescue also on the impassable road, and somewhere in the mountains during the snowfall.

Well familiar to owners BMW gearbox "Steptronic" enters into the standard equipment of the eight-cylinder X5.

We we say: "extra-roads builder". Americans speak: "SUV". This unusual for yevropeyskog 1000 about rumor the abbreviation, by which the Yankee designate the jeeps, is deciphered as follows: Sport- utilities Vehicle (sport- universal automobile). Bavarians developed Khshch, in the first place, for America; therefore for the designation of novelty they devised our own abbreviation - SAV. How to estimate this trudnoperevodimoye Sport-Activity Vehicle? Extra-road builder for the active driver? And why generally was required this commotion around the abbreviations?..

Answer to a last question is clear: Bavarians decisively against to place Khshch on one shelf with the traditional extra-roads builder. This is special automobile. Not jeep. And not passenger specialist. This is - thing in itself.

Question to the buyer - you already replaced three bmw. you now conduct "seven". Why to you now extra-road Khshch? - this question was assigned to Muscovite To rinatu To akhmatullinu, which during May must obtain ordered Khshch. - you, probably will laugh: I want to save. I love BMW, but last years was forced to contain in addition old extra-road builder Isuzu. To my dacha on "bimmere" not to select. When I sit down on Khshch, in the second machine the necessity will fall.

Commodity in short supply rivalry BMW and Mercedes has long ago become parable into yazytsekh. As soon as appears new "Moers", entire harmoniously they start to compare him with analogous "Bimmerom". And vice versa. Therefore on the return to the editorial staff they immediately filled up me by questions, as appears novelty against the background of extra-road builder Mercedes ML. interest preheated the fact that both automobiles are produced in America, on the overseas branches of German companies.

Yes, these automobiles, with some of external similarity, in many respects differ. But they cannot be compared! "Moers" as becomes to authentic extra-road builder, he has frame construction of body. In BMW body carrying. ML wonderfully itself feels in the broken ground and on the impassable road, then Khshch show off by considerably best running qualities on the asphalt...

- entirely you tangled me, was angered familiar banker, when I described to it about the Bavarian novelty. - to whom then is necessary such Of "bimmer"?.. - to you it is necessary. -?!

I reminded it, as in summer it entire day rolled out on the the high-speed Cadlllac STS, and in the evening, losing the precious time of leisure, it went to the stand and reseated for control Pajero. And for what? It is ridiculous to say: because of pitiful two hundred it is meter the razdolbannoy dirt road, which divides its dacha and preotlichnoye highway, along which is better to rush past before supper on the 300- the strong Cadillac how to be dragged on the diesel extra-road builder.

-... then in Khshch and on the asphalt of kayf you obtain, and you do not fear the lung of impassable road, it finished its 4 tirade. - about the impassable road it is agreeable, but concerning kayfa... - if you please: acceleration from the place to 100 km/h occupies 7,5 seconds. Maximum speed reaches 230 km/h, it coined 4. - if to you this it is small, wait yr- other, until to Khshch reach tyuningovye studio. Then automobile can become most rapid in the world extra-dose of justified risk...

M-da, is must poakkuratneye with the terminology. In spite of extra-road appearance, in the machine lives the spirit of the powerful passenger BMW. unique it came out automobile. Not without reason it immediately fell into the discharge of commodities in short supply.

For example, the beginning of sales BMW X5 to THE USA it was necessary at the moment of recent christmas fever. Which to a certain extent explains small sensation. One of the first copies of novelty was sold from the auction almost after... $160000. Besides that the dilerskaya price of machine in the American salons composes only fifty thousand speech it goes about automobile with motor V8 (4,4 l, 286 hp), which we now tested.

Recently appeared new modification Khshch. On the auto-salon in Detroit 6- drum version made a debut (3 l, 231 hp). In America it stands to $10000 cheaper than the eight-cylinder.

BMW remain BMW worshippers BMW trembling they relate to the running qualities of its machines. Therefore to engineers it was important to combine foremost complete drive and zadneprivodnye traditions of stamp, which for them succeeded completely brilliantly...

After noting the well examined, covered with packed snow turning, I turn control less, and gas I press home more than it follows. Khshch it descends into 1000 slips, and - in the best zadneprivodnykh traditions! - the fodder of machine describe smooth arc. The fact is that to the front wheels Khshch they be 38% of force of motor, and to the rear - 62. Therefore novelty possesses the clear zadneprivodnymi habits, which the worshippers of stamp value. The owner of "five" or "seven", reseeding to the winter for the control Khshch, will feel the familiar nature BMW. storage of traditions - also skill!

In a word, BMW remains BMW. even if it it knows how to drive not only on the asphalt. And this - most important.

Sergey klochkov

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