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automotique . BMW 6-series 640d M Sport Road Engine Test We wonder if the 640D would achieve both 150 mph and 50mpg in our hands. In the end, failed to hit quite those numbers down the stretch of a mile on the MIRA proving ground, or on our tour route. However, a wind-assisted steering up 146 mph in the MIRA and 46.4mpg on a simulated highway race is far from being bad for a 1840kg coupe.

When you start the six-pot diesel, sits in a quiet thrummy, inactive, clattery but rumbly. To arrive at a place and you will find an electronic switch type we have become so familiar that nothing maintaining mechanical operation now feels outdated. Mechanical connections, however, eliminate the irritation that the lever moves but does not select a gear if you did not press the release button on their side enough. No big deal, but we suspect it would not be a solution. Also, it is more preferred that the confirmation box 'has fallen into the park a light on the dash.

However, the gearbox eight-speed is itself a unit that shows his competence and intelligence by the change as smooth and clean for the most part, just come into your awareness that you are doing at all.
What does make its presence felt is the number of results that are offered. From the beginning, the 640D is capable of overcoming its rear wheels and establishing ESP light flames while going 60 mph in just 5.3sec and 100mph in just 13.1sec. If you are on call 30 mph and full throttle, only 4.5sec later get to 70 mph. This is a car you will not want for their performance, and everything comes with a sound that is the best automotive diesel noise on this side of a Challenger II tank, extremely smooth and powerful sound without unwanted high-end nuances.



That the 640D can do all this while returning 46mpg and 32mpg on a cruise comfortably at any time, making it one of the best propulsion systems available today.

It is not long on the 640D to realize you're driving a big car. For a long time, but also wide, which makes threaded along the narrow streets is easier than it would be in one of the doors of four on which the 6 series. That should come as no surprise, but it's a shame this coupe does not come with a greater sense of natural agility and agility of the class mark, for example, a Porsche 911.

Instead, think of the number 6 as a natural rival in size and behavior, if not in price for a Mercedes CL, a long-legged, easy to carry cruise luxury rather than a sports coupe. Among the Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, which was to find a Jaguar XK doing half the work of each. The question is, where is the BMW fit?
Closer to the Mercedes is the short answer. The answer no longer requires an explanation from the fact that, like many other high-end BMW 640D rides run-flat tires from Michelin and apparently adaptive damping skill requires before it will make the kind of BMW wants to work.

Damping settings can be moved from Comfort + through a series of adjustments increasingly firm Sport +, each with more control of the body to a loss of ride quality. On highway trips, which left him with ease and find the few places where the surface was so smooth sport or Sport + provides an acceptable level of ride quality. If you accept the hard, find a natural equilibrium level and capacity that is credited with BMW.

In any case, the blend of ride and handling is rarely bad, but less optimized than we would like given the price of this car - the 640D gives you a feeling forever gently disturbing is not as good as could be. What the 640D always offers, the mind is an excellent level of comfort of the cabin and refinement. Few cars in this price or any sophisticated feel so isolated from the noise. The number 6 gets that little spot under a grand tourer.

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