BMW 7-series (2016) long-term test review
Month 7 running a BMW 7-series: final report
For the 26th and final time I find myself on the forecourt pumping diesel into our BMW 7-series, and trying to figure out if this is an emotional goodbye. There’s no actual tear in my eye (except when confronted with the £101.55 bill for the gas), bu...
Month 6 running a BMW 7-series: dust-up at the premium club
At the swanky end of our fleet are two ideas of luxury. Has lux SUV usurped lux saloon? We argue it. By Greg Fountain & Tim Pollard.GF: Let’s be absolutely clear about this, Tim, it’s all your fault. If you hadn’t lavished £16,440 on extras, thereby...
Month 5 running a BMW 7-series: old, or new?
Park the 730d next to an i8 and something odd happens to the space/time continuum. And what’s interesting is that rather than the i8 looking futuristic, the Seven merely looks old. Also, the i8 does rather look as if someone’s sat on it.Do they compare? You decide. 730d: four conventional doors, six-pot diesel, 0-62 in 6.1sec, 129g/km CO2, £68k; i8: two scissor doors, three-pot petrol with 96kW motor, 4.4sec, 49g/km, £104k. Both have four seats (both are tight in the back) and both use carbonfibre and aluminium. So, in 2016, which is BMW’s halo car?Logbook: BMW 730d M SportEngine 2993cc 24v inline six, 261bhp @ 4000rpm, 457lb ft @ 2000-2500rpm Transmission 8-spd auto, rwd Stats 6.1sec 0-62mph, 155mph, 129g/km CO2 Price £68,180 As tested £84,465 Miles this month 1481 Total 9478 Our mpg 40.5 Official mpg 60.1 Fuel £188.28 Extra costs £0By Greg Fountain
Month 4 running a BMW 7-series: ultimately, still a driving machine
You’d swear it was a smaller car. Hard to credit, when you fling it ill-advisedly at a tightening corner, that the back wheels currently defying physics in applying 457lb ft of torque to the road are so far away. This 7-series feels like you’ve got it...
Month 3 running a BMW 7-series: an unnecessary plethora of options
The result is in earlier than expected: gesture control doesn’t work, not even if you’re ET. At least, not yet. BMW knows this, of course - that’s why the 730d offers three other ways of turning the radio down - but I applaud the fact they’ve put the technology out there, ready or not.Trouble is, there’s so much tech in the 7-series I can’t decide what to use. Tap the screen? Turn the iDrive dial? Use the dial-top touchpad? Try voice control? Use the wheel-mounted controller? Turn the analogue knob? BMW is better qualified than me to decide, yet obviously can’t make up its mind either.By Greg Fountain
Month 2 running a BMW 730d: seats and questionable packaging
Being in the driving seat is simply delicious, but difficult information is filtering through from occupants of the other three chairs. This is a big saloon, right - an almost limo? So how come my 5ft 4in wife struggles for knee room in the front? And why do those behind mention (you could not call it complaining) that they’re packed in rather tight?It’s a bit of a shock to discover when piloting ‘the largest series-production BMW ever’ (it’s 5098mm long) that I’ll need the long-wheelbase model with extra 14cm of wheelbase to truly don that chauffeur’s cap. ‘Send me the head of packaging, Miss Snibbs!’By Greg Fountain
Month 1 running a BMW 7-series: meet our 730d
Radical futurism and defiant traditionalism are surely opposing philosophical schools, but which does the new BMW 7-series subscribe to? A conventional three-box saloon, it swaggers into the SUV party like Antonio Fargas at the GQ awards, wildly out of...
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