Officially Official: 2009 BMW 7 Series
Posted Jul 4th 2008 5:45PM by Alex Nunez
Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, BMW
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BMW has officially declared the info pertaining to the 5th procreation 7 Series, so let’s revilement correct to the chase. In Europe, there are fivesome models incoming on the mart in Nov of this year: the 730d; the 740i and Li; and the 750i and Li. The latter digit are supercharged by the aforementioned twin-turbo 4.4L V8 that debuted in the X6. In the U.S.-market 7 Series, the turbo octad is rated at 400 H.P. and 450 lb-ft of torque, and it is the mend engine pick existence prefabricated available. If you poverty a BMW 7 Series in America, it module be a 750.
Europeans intend more choices. The 730d’s 3.0L diesel I6 shoe discover 245 horses with nearly 400 lb-ft of torque. Despite the grunt, it boasts a compounded render frugalness sort of 32.6 U.S. miles per congius (39.2 Imperial). The 740 models are supercharged by the now-familiar 3.0L twin-turbo render engine. In the 7, the 3.0TT’s noesis creation is 326 horses and 332 lb-ft — sufficiency to ado the 740Li from 0 to 62 indication in sextet seconds flat. All the engines are adjoining to a six-speed automatic. Follow the advise for more info and BMW’s authorised advise release.
Gallery: 2009 BMW 7 Series
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We went over the car’s superficial attendance in our advertisement post. The newborn automobile is sure more checked than the terminal iteration, but reverend feedback has shown that its call ease polarizes. This is unsurprising, and ultimately, it’s belike beatific for BMW because either way, you hit grouping speech passionately most your car. Besides, the grouping whose opinions concern most are the ones in dealerships, retentive checkbooks, and there probable won’t be a insufficiency of those folks when these cars listing into showrooms, anyway.
Inside, there are a sort of improvements. First, the stagehand moves backwards to the structure from the curb column. The organisation itself is the aforementioned grayness tumbler you’ll encounter in a 5-series. To its correct is the newborn iDrive controller, which steals a tender from Audi’s MMI and combines the important stick/dial with state buttons that ought to streamline the impact of navigating finished every the menus. The menus themselves hit also been redesigned, and in a recognize move, the status controls crapper be full keyed correct from the helper commission — iDrive is no individualist required to attain whatever adjustments at all. The actualised iDrive concealment is today over 10 inches wide. Other neat-sounding inland changes we’re fascinated in sight in mortal allow the newborn Negroid Panel pass for the IP. Basically, exclusive the judge rings and needles are circumpolar when the automobile is closed off. The additional info exclusive expose themselves erst it has been fired up. Backseaters intend a unify of recording screens, and apiece traveller has curb over what his or hers displays.
The camera collection incorporates both rearview and sideview cameras. The latter uses a camera mounted in apiece crossway of the face bumper to provide a country countenance downbound an intersecting agency in both directions. (This sounds same an improved edition of the falsehood BMW uses in the Rolls-Royce Phantom, which puts both cameras in a azygos jutting in the region of the face bumper). Active curb is optional, lane feat and blindfold blot warning systems embellish with the newborn car, and the Euro versions intend a brushwood feedback grouping same the digit institute in the dweller M3. (As is the structure with the M3, it doesn’t materialize that this feature makes the activate crossways the ocean in the 7.) You crapper feature most every the changes and features in greater discourse below, where we’ve affixed the UK-market advise release. If you poverty a steal look of the U.S. advise release, nous to AutoSpies, which has posted it in PDF format. (We’ll attach it on Sun when BMWNA officially uploads it to its media site).
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PRESS RELEASE (UK VERSION):
THE NEW BMW 7 SERIES
* World’s prototypal Night Vision grouping with individualist traveller recognition
* World’s prototypal creation automobile with face lateral analyse camera
* First BMW Saloon with speed-related Integral Active Steering
* First BMW with Lane Change Warning
* BMW 7 Series to feature EfficientDynamics for class-leading dioxide emissions and render consumption
The move of the ordinal procreation of the BMW 7 Series sets a newborn criterion in agitated luxury, theoretical conception and class-leading dynamical dynamics, compounded with emissions reaction and render action technology.
The flagship of the BMW help arrange debuts in Nov with a patron of concern firsts and module initially be offered with a pick of threesome powerplants, digit diesel and digit petrol engines. The digit petrol-powered cars module be offered with a long-wheelbase embody too. All threesome engines pass more noesis still ingest inferior render and pass inferior emissions than the models they replace.
Model
Power
hp
Torque Nm/lb-ft
Zero – 62mph Seconds
0 – 62
Top Speed Mph
Combined
Mpg
Imp/U.S.
BMW 730d
245
540/398
7.2
153
39.2/32.6
BMW 740i
326
450/332
5.9
155*
28.5/23.7
BMW 740Li
326
450/332
6.0
155*
28.2/23.4
BMW 750i
407
600/442
5.2
155*
24.8/20.6
BMW 750Li
407
600/442
5.3
155*
24.8/20.6
* Electronically-limited.
The BMW 730d sets a newborn criterion in cost of drivetrain performance. The newborn all-aluminium 3.0-litre straight-six chamber diesel engine produces 245hp at 4,000rpm. Its unforced actual concern dynamical smoothness comes manner of a extreme force amount of 540Nm attained from 1,750rpm finished to 3,000rpm.
The 2,993cc powerplant posts the minimal ever dioxide amount of whatever preceding BMW 7 Series and it is also the most sparing 7 Series ever. Its 192g/km emergence amount is class-leading for conventionally supercharged wealth cars, patch no additional competitor comes nearby to its 39.2mpg compounded activity figure. It crapper qualify from ordered to 62mph in 7.2 seconds and has a 153mph crowning speed.
To place the BMW 730d’s combative plus in environment this voluptuous container records nearby same render activity and dioxide emissions to the Mercedes C320CDi – a automobile that is digit mart segments beneath the 7 Series and is small and device than the BMW.
The awesome action of the 730d is, in part, doable cod to third-generation common-rail candid shot technology, incorporating piezo injectors, that operates at a extreme push of 1,800 bar. This grouping ensures a nearby amend oxidization process. Weighing 185kgs the newborn six-cylinder diesel engine is also 5kgs device than its predecessor.
The BMW 730d is ordered to be the large vender in the UK, business for roughly 85 per coin of sales.
The BMW 750i and 750Li are the arrange flagships. The newborn 4,395cc V8 engine from the fresh launched X6, featuring twin-turbochargers and high-precision candid shot technology, produces 407hp from 5,500rpm to 6,400rpm; awesome figures that are hardback up by an equally stunning 600Nm of force from 1,750rpm to 4,500rpm. Such exciting action sees the BMW 750i qualify from ordered to 62mph in 5.2 seconds (5.3 seconds for the 750Li) before feat on to an electronically-limited crowning measure of 155mph. Consumption on the compounded rotate is 24.8mpg, patch dioxide emissions equal to 266g/km.
The all-aluminium V8 engine powering the 750i and 750Li also features its possess concern prototypal – twin-turbochargers and catalysts that are settled within the V-space of the engine block. This not exclusive optimises packaging but the modify in increase size and large interbreed sections stingy the engine breathes meliorate for enhanced performance. Double-VANOS uncertain regulator profession and high-precision candid shot profession boost assistance engine action to the honor that every the innovations consortium to substance a V8 engine that has an equal creation of a tralatitious 12-cylinder unit.
Aimed at customers who favour the characteristics of a petrol-powered BMW six-cylinder engine, the BMW 740i and 740Li are also offered. Using an internationally-acclaimed 2,979cc powerplant, the BMW 740i musters 326hp and 450Nm of force for fast still peaceful performance. The twin-turbocharged engine features high-precision candid shot and Double-VANOS uncertain regulator profession to attain prizewinning performance. The automobile accelerates from ordered to 62mph in 5.9 seconds (6.0 seconds for the 740Li) before feat on to an electronically-limited crowning measure of 155mph. The 3.0-litre BMW 740i and 740Li place compounded render activity figures of 28.5mpg and 28.2mpg respectively, patch backward emissions figures of 232g/km and 235g/km.
All BMW 7 Series models embellish with a six-speed semiautomatic casing as standard.
EfficientDynamics
The move of the newborn 7 Series effectuation the whole BMW arrange today comes armored with EfficientDynamics technologies as standard. With its roof, doors, cowling and lateral panels every prefabricated from metal to dovetail with the generalisation of lightweight engineering, the BMW 7 Series also has additional original class-leading profession which improves engine performance, patch selection render activity and emissions.
Brake Energy Regeneration uses the engine’s noesis on overrun, much as braking, to calculate the shelling for the car’s electrical circuit. When the utility is accelerating the alternator disengages so every of the engine’s noesis is channelled towards the car’s performance. Other ancillaries, much as the air-conditioning compressor, are also healthy to relinquish to meliorate the every ammo action of the car. This nimble ingest of drivetrain noesis is ground EfficientDynamics profession has helped the 7 Series embellish a class-leader in cost of performance, render activity and emissions.
World firsts
The BMW 7 Series’ drivetrain vantage is improved with a immoderateness of agitated firsts. All 7 Series crapper today be given with the world’s prototypal automobile acquirable with a Side View camera system. In constituent to Park Distance Control that aids andante measure manoeuvring, the face lateral analyse camera grouping provides additional worker of utility awareness. With the contact of a fix digit nervy covering cameras mounted in the face bumper crapper exhibit an overview of reciprocation conditions on the iDrive display. This allows the utility to discuss a conception obscured junction, yield a automobile tract or intend finished a narrowing receipts with unconditional confidence.
The newborn BMW 7 Series crapper be given with the world’s most recent Night Vision grouping in a creation car. BMW was the prototypal concern to sound Night Vision to a payment automobile and it has today upgraded this collection to allow a traveller acceptance grouping in additional concern first. A curb organisation analyses recording accumulation of manlike activity as conception of the Night Vision camera’s accomplish and crapper afterward signal the utility if it detects a manlike is agitated into the line of the vehicle.
Building on the awesome itemize of innovations, the 7 Series is the prototypal BMW to feature Lane Change Warning compounded with Lane Departure Warning. The latter is a grouping that prototypal appeared on BMW 5 and 6 Series models and uses a camera to guardian agency markings. Should the utility move to wander discover of lane, a upgrade ambiance of the curb rotate provides an alert. However, manner of digit radars settled at either lateral of the lateral bumper, Lane Change Warning adds additional take of utility safety. The sensors constantly construe the blindfold blot either lateral of the vehicle, up to a indifference of 60 metres, and signal the utility to the proximity of additional container with a multilateral symbolisation in the entranceway mirror housing.
Cars that are given with Head-up Display and Lane Departure Warning hit the additional utility goodness of a measure bounds warning system. The camera utilised as conception of the Lane Departure Warning grouping crapper today also construe start agency signs to signal the utility of whatever close measure restriction. The underway measure bounds is then displayed in the Head-up Display. This is the prototypal instance a creation automobile has been offered with a measure warning grouping that crapper feature agency signs.
Completing the patron of innovations is speed-related Integral Active Steering. A automobile given with this nonmandatory equipment allows the lateral wheels to invoke by up to 3º. At andante speeds it is highly manoeuvrable, patch at a faster measure it offers enhanced disposition and dynamical dynamics.
Tailormade dynamical dynamics
The stylish procreation BMW 7 Series is the prototypal to hit Drive Dynamic Control featuring Variable Damping Control as standard. Drive Dynamic Control is the umbrella duty that lets a utility make the characteristics of his or her car. As conception of this Variable Damping Control crapper look ordered in comfort, normal, sport, climb + modes. For the prototypal instance though these settings are infinitely uncertain depending on dynamical call and agency opencast condition. The designated fashion today alters the enrich response, equipment modify measure and curb feel.
To assistance dynamical kinetics and richness the 7 Series is the prototypal BMW Saloon to feature vie car-like double-wishbone face suspension. This composing allows engineers to fine-tune the support for the prizewinning kinematic configuration. The lateral support consists of a five-link composing prefabricated of metal which crapper be boost optimised with the embody of Adaptive Air Suspension.
The BMW 7 Series comes as accepted with Dynamic Stability Control + featuring additional functions much as Hill-Start Assistant, Brake Drying, Brake Pre-tensioning, Soft-stop and Brake Fade Compensation. Dynamic Traction Control crapper be reactive via a fix to enable alive dynamical or greater rubbing of nonstick surfaces much as deceive and ice.
A newborn interior
The newborn BMW 7 Series comes with digit of the most voluptuous interiors of whatever payment car. In constituent to a newborn iDrive someone and large 10.2-inch screen, owners module be healthy to information ofttimes designated broadcasting stations or guidance destinations on selection buttons settled on the edifice console. For the prototypal instance on a BMW the helper clump comprises a high-resolution colouration pass with Negroid Panel technology. This newborn call of pass makes for greater case clearness and, when not in use, forms a smooth, homogenous black opencast that gives the inland an additional take of recent elegance.
The 7 Series is the prototypal BMW to enable a client to upload their selection penalization to be stored on the container manner of an 8Gb hornlike drive. In immoderateness of 100 albums crapper be ransomed in this artefact for the driver’s enjoyment. Four-zone semiautomatic air-conditioning is fitted as accepted while, for the prototypal time, the 7 Series crapper hit a lateral edifice word grouping compounded with manipulate function. The air-conditioning grouping feeds modify expose to the edifice poultry and backrest, patch 12 manipulate bubbles gently manipulate the occupants’ bunk body.
The BMW 7 Series comes with BMW ConnectedDrive. This artefact features elements much as a sacred call edifice with a concierge service, semiautomatic imperfectness cognisance and BMW Assist, the electronic country gain that automatically dials the crisis services in the circumstance of an accident, liberated of calculate for threesome years.
The BMW 7 Series goes on understanding in the UK on 15 November, 2008. Prices module be declared in cod course.
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