Tuesday, April 19, 2011

First Test: 2011 BMW X6 M

An officer of BMW takes a lot of money and a small piece of hallucinogens and hands at once to a group of engineers with the following statement: Some time later - after the adoption of key laws limitations - BMW X6 M appears "Go nuts." .

The hulking, incredibly fast aberration red you see here gives a peek into their crazy ride. The engine, for example. BMW has a twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8, but these engineers; including 400 horses simply do not. Thus, came new pistons, camshafts, turbochargers, and a modified cooling system, among others. Engineers finally settled on 555 horsepower, a number so comfortable, they might as well have called it "probably". They then programmed into a system of launch control, what good is an SUV 5181 pounds, so it cannot accelerate like a Cadillac CTS-V?

"Wait a second, you might think." What about the Cayenne Turbo? Yes, both are monstrously stupid, twin-turbocharged SUV. But now, the BMW is faster. 60 km / h in 4.0 seconds and the quarter mile in 12, 5 seconds at 110.8 mph, the X6 M rejects Porsche relatively sensitive to three tenths. How? With the transmission in manual mode, all that is needed from the BMW driver is that the discreet button "M" on the wheel and two foot pedals level. And when the checkered flag appears on the instrument panel, preventing the brake. Dispose of all-wheel-drive X6 M from its resting place, the transmission is responsible for the higher ratios - the driver is alone in the adventure.

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