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You know that BMW M7 that BMW definitely doesn"t make? Well it still doesn"t. Because it makes the M760Li XDrive instead.You thought that B7 Alpina was a bit of an animal? Well guess what - the new M760iL XDrive (don"t call it an M7) hacks out 600bhp and 590b ft from a 6.6-litre twin-turbo TwinPower" V12. That gives a 0-62mph time of 3.9 seconds and 155mph (limited) top speed. A bit like that Big Alpina.But lets not get into a comparison fight, because the official flagship Seven promises to be quite a thing. That silky all-aluminium V12 is tweaked by M-Performance" - note, not M-Power", which is a separate entity - and uses one monoscroll blower per bank of six cylinders.Mounted outside each bank, they breathe intercooled air and benefit from BMW"s usual Double-VANOS variable valve timing and High Precision" fuel injection. BMW says this allows for a higher compression ratio and contributes a good deal to throttle response and reasonable fuel and C02 figures: 22.4mpg combined and 294g/km are pretty good for an engine of this type.The prodigious torque is transmitted to the ground via an 8-speed auto with paddles and XDrive four-wheel drive with a defined rear-bias, a system that is no doubt the reason the M760Li can accelerate in quite so startling a fashion. Under 4 seconds to 62mph for a luxury limo is. somewhat eye-widening. As is the fact that the thing has launch control as standard. And you"ll hear it coming this time too, with a quad-exit active-flap exhaust increasing the volume depending on the effort expended.
Date written: 11 Feb 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2103
You know that BMW M7 that BMW definitely doesn"t make? Well it still doesn"t. Because it makes the M760Li XDrive instead.You thought that B7 Alpina was a bit of an animal? Well guess what - the new M760iL XDrive (don"t call it an M7) hacks out 600bhp and 590b ft from a 6.6-litre twin-turbo TwinPower" V12. That gives a 0-62mph time of 3.9 seconds and 155mph (limited) top speed. A bit like that Big Alpina.But lets not get into a comparison fight, because the official flagship Seven promises to be quite a thing. That silky all-aluminium V12 is tweaked by M-Performance" - note, not M-Power", which is a separate entity - and uses one monoscroll blower per bank of six cylinders.Mounted outside each bank, they breathe intercooled air and benefit from BMW"s usual Double-VANOS variable valve timing and High Precision" fuel injection. BMW says this allows for a higher compression ratio and contributes a good deal to throttle response and reasonable fuel and C02 figures: 22.4mpg combined and 294g/km are pretty good for an engine of this type.The prodigious torque is transmitted to the ground via an 8-speed auto with paddles and XDrive four-wheel drive with a defined rear-bias, a system that is no doubt the reason the M760Li can accelerate in quite so startling a fashion. Under 4 seconds to 62mph for a luxury limo is. somewhat eye-widening. As is the fact that the thing has launch control as standard. And you"ll hear it coming this time too, with a quad-exit active-flap exhaust increasing the volume depending on the effort expended.
Date written: 11 Feb 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2103
