BMW 750Li xDrive: driving test and video
Posted on 04-01-2016 to 16:00 pm by Wouter – 56 Comments”
Gadgets, carbon and friggin lasers. If you have a 7 Series in exactly this specification order, then you can at least 8 birthdays on your new toy to tell without something to repeat.
[ First look, then read? Watch the video HERE! ]
Birthday 1: Carbon core
If you are the proverbial acid get electric cars, then the application of carbon at BMW are not very extensive. The roofs of what M models are made of, but really structurally pounds loss you’re not. Hence, BMW now the next step has been taken and used well hidden inside the structure CFRP (carbon fiber reinforced plastics). Fortunately, there is with the doors open even a little different logo to be seen, because from the outside you see it’s not the 7 Series.
The advantage of the use of CFRP is evident, it is both very stiff as is very light. Total claims BMW to 130 kilograms, to have saved compared to the previous generation. Real light is a 7 Series there is not. Weights start at just under 1900 kg, but here applies the saying: “every little helps”.
Birthday 2: friggin lasers
Complaints about xenon, or LED lighting, we had not, but that does not make any strong verjaardagsverhaal. Lasers, however. Almost every car has them, but if they are still used then you are hopelessly old-fashioned. CD’s are so passe, although the players actually have not yet been eliminated from new cars.
The headlight with BMW Laserlight is again, an ingenious piece of engineering. Everything can also with LED’s but the great advantage of laser light is that it is a virtual penisverlenger is an even better light output. The range of the high beam is 600 metres, twice as far as that of the LED headlights. At top speed (limited to 250 km/h) you can drive only 70 metres per second, so it is no issue to a dark Autobahn full by barking.
Birthday 3: four-wheel drive rules
BMW does an Audi next, because the 7 Series with a V8 is only with all-wheel drive. Once you go with the current generation of turbo-engines accounted for roughly 350-400 hp is going, you also very hard against the restriction of drive to the rear wheels. In the summer and sticky zomerrubber is not an issue, but when it’s cold or wet conditions are often especially converted into wheel spin, or used as a generator for the ESP light to feed.
In case you’re wondering why it 5-10 years ago with the same capabilities is less of a problem seemed to be, then the answer is: turbo’s. With the beautiful torque curve is lovely to drive, but it also ensures that there is a much faster much more force on the driven wheels.
Anniversary 4: in the back of your ruffle sleep
With the room in the back seat, it’s sure to be a moustache in a 7 Series, but lying could not yet. It is still optional but with the option Executive Lounge Seating get the passenger right rear for even more space and even an integrated footrest from the chair for him (M/f) flips. The backrest of the rechtervoorstoel can almost flat to the front to be folded.
Birthday 5: the mine has more screens
Of course, there are the back extra cup holders, but also a fold-out table and the Touch Command system. This is a removable 7-inch tablet computer, which allows the infotainment and comfort functions in the rear of the BMW 7 Series to operate. Yep, the 7 Series now offers so many options in the back of a tablet is convenient for the operation. Naturally, the orgy of screens not on, both front seats have one of the counters in the dashboard have been replaced and of course the infotainment system is also equipped with a thick screen. More interesting still are the touch screens for the operation of the ventilation and that there is also a screen in the key is processed. A total of nine screens/ screens, if I am at least well have counted.
Birthday 6: ons ben zuunig
Fortunately I know better than to go on the normverbruik such as that from the test cycle, but still. What are the engines good economical hey, a 450 horsepower V8 engine that more than 1 out of 12 picks we could previously only dream. The semi-electric 740e do it even better, but that is unfortunately for the Netherlands, however, what shows on the market. In 2015, it was a CO2 emissions of 49 grams is still good for 7%, but in 2016, it is already 15% surcharge for the plug-in-hybrids.
Model750i xDrive740i730d740e
Cilinderinhoud4395 cc2998cc2993cc1997 cc
# cilinders8664
Vermogen330 kW/450 pk240 kW/326 pk195kW/265 pk240kW/326 hp
Koppel650 Nm450 Nm620 Nm
0-1004,4s5,5s6,1s5,6s
Topsnelheid250 km/h 250 km/h 250 km/u240 km/h
Brandstofverbruik8,1l/100km6,6l/100km4,5l/100 km2,1l/100 km
CO2-uitstoot189 g/ km154g/km119g/km49g/km
Prijs128.00098.00095.500 NNB
Birthday 7: active control sucks
In the 340i set (driving test) I was not a fan of the 7 Series can I not tempt. In theory, it is a very good idea as to the gravity and immediacy of the controls among other things depending on the speed driven. The practice is for me (and for others, but not for everyone) is totally different. On the highway I was emotionally continuously to the correct, and that in a car which is also the first step towards a real self-propelled car.
It is a pity because the rest of the package is, of course, brilliant. The V8 kicks the still with gadgets and electronics fully-loaded 750Li is very easy to legal and much less legal speeds. The handling itself is of course brilliant, although it does a very large lap car. The 7 Series is not a car that seems to shrink when cornering, so for the real steering system can be better to another bimmer to be diverted.
Birthday 8: my BMW cost of 2 ton
Completed, that is, but on these amounts makes that really not more. The salesman at your local BMW dealer can clearly explain to you and even better if there is no discount need be granted.
Actually the price of this 750 Li xDrive only 192 mille, of which 60 mille for many of the goodies that were key for calls on the previous nine birthdays. It is an impressive amount, but in defense of BMW: all for less than a ton you can ride the merry go home in one piece bolder siebener.
If you have a particularly active social life and not come out with only 8 subjects for birthdays, the 7 Series even more enter. About the operation via gesture control, or all of the support to park the car, and we have not even had. Movie!
Gallery: BMW 750Li xDrive
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