So! You will spend the most part of time in the car, in difference from buyers of the Chinese car industry who spend him under it... Means for a second we will glance in interior. In interior E39 BMW 540, at the good factory specification where at once we notice brisk and accurate «M» a wheel, the human size, instead of a manhole cover, as in «GAZ 66». Besides, steering buttons on it without ceremony will suffice to send Tereshkovu once again in space, but they at all do not disturb even at very quick driving.

During a stop we can become for a minute the taxi driver and watch TV or even to try to engage GPS. It is a pity that to us promise to digitize the basic regional centres and lines of our native land only by 2010. In E39 interior not the softest skin, but its lateral inserts on doors something remind a S-class. Electric seats, with resettings in four directions, fine add to the comfort and charm car. The last can be tested to the full, having gone on a lonely beach with the beloved. The interior quite spacious, but in an ideal is calculated on four person. It will be not alien and to married couples: in a rear seat there are sliding panels on which it is possible to place two kiddies. In the decent sizes a luggage compartment it is possible to lay without ceremony one big and the tall person, or it is less than two. It is a pity, the last have not appeared on our E39 test drive.

The representative kind and the highest comfortableness traditionally are one of the strengths of Bavarians. Silence and smoothness of a course allows to engage favourite music and to enjoy speed at the minimum losses of comfort. Even on 190 km/h everything that you will hear — easy growl E39 4,4-litre V8, stably keeping 3600 turns. And it means, what even at such speed the expense will not exceed 10 litres on "hundred". Though in a city a situation other — 15 litres at quiet driving and to 18 litres if there will be a desire to gambol.

Let's pass to appearance. Our variant practically differs nothing from the simple five, except for 18-inch wheels in the form of the dismissed chestnuts on 45 rubber, and the updated lobbies and tail lights. The design of E39 front bumper reminds a lattice for a grill, in the same place the washer of headlights quite applying for the first place in a nomination «the Most useless option» a little. Certainly, it is possible to establish a weather-cloth from BMW M5 and to be accelerated for 0,0 seconds faster, than earlier, but there is other variant — to curtail from a line and through refuelling on a track; there also we will look at ours of 210 kw of power that is equal practically to 80 qualitative vacuum cleaners of foreign manufacture. Anyway, almost 286 h.p. on our strengthened facilitated suspender from the seventh series are very much even not bad, after all we can run up to "hundred" all for 6,5 seconds. Rather not bad for those years and that weight!

E39 controllable drift.

Like, and the classical body, but in each turning movement underlines character of the big solid sedan appropriate to a rank, softly starts to slide outside front wheels, so softly leaves inside at gas dump. It as if insures the driver against serious errors, but at attempts to start the car in steered drift resists that there are forces. However it is possible to get to the core of this client easily. At first under pull-rod continues to slip out outside, and then as if bethinks («Yes I rear-drive!») and with delay starts to slide rear wheels, being screwed in in a bend.

Yes-yes, so behaves E39 540 and in any way differently. At times in general it is difficult to break it in long qualitative lateral drift at a wheel smooth motion. Plus to everything, our E39 car on the automatic machine so it is necessary to feel accurately how the centre of gravity varies and in what party it suddenly will want out. Sometimes you think, and what for so much superfluous kgs, but German friends will answer it that smoothness and comfort were their overall objective by working out of this car, and for other purposes is M3. But about it another time, and now we will try to make all the same, but slightly on other covering. And suddenly the five as if has forgotten about the solid image.

We fly up to turning movement, and BMW easily and willingly dives in a bend as the squabbler. And now — full gas! E39 car as if also waits for it, smoothly, but without the slightest indecision leaving in drift. We compensate its rotation of a wheel, without removing a foot from a gas pedal. And, sliding all four wheels, a nose to a kerbs with an intensive set of speed the car leaves turning movement. Ahead — new turning movement. Here time a few to dump gas, to catch the necessary phase of fluctuation of the car and to start it in the following bend... And so it is drawn a geometrical figure under the name "eight" then we throw off speed and smoothly to our photographer who has heroically survived during time the test of a drive, after all not and simply small objective to catch one and a half ton of German iron rushing on you and aluminium.

It would be possible to add still that E39 BMW 540 is a find of the agriculturist since the furrows left after us well very much remind summer cultivation, but after all that she has worried on test drive to it remains only applaud and to go on a camera!