2013 BMW 740Li xDrive - Car and Driver
Like a one-time college track-and-field champ who has prospered into a bank president, the BMW 7-series is an executive express with varsity roots. It comes by its athleticism naturally, BMW trimming the 7-series with a weight distribution that’s well balanced front to rear—51. Over a chassis descended from decades of ultimate driving machines, wheels anchor each of the big sedan’s corners and the car’s flanks carry strong horizontal character lines with no untoward ifs, ands, or Bangle butts. Our extended-wheelbase 740Li test car stretches 5. 5 inches longer than the standard-wheelbase “i”, with all additional longitude devoted to the comfort of the aft denizens. It’s as if BMW had the very definition of “sedan” in mind when it crafted the cabin: “A conveyance with two or four doors, a permanent rigid top, and a full-size rear seat,” a description which can be traced back to 1634 and one Sir Saunder... While it may be true that making dignified entrances and exits and having sufficient wingtip-wielding clearance are priorities that define flagship-level luxury, do we really want to thread this longer sausage through traffic. To assist with the point-A-to-point-B deportment, 2013 also brought the availability of xDrive all-wheel drive to “entry-level” 7-series models, the standard-wheelbase 740i. Source: www.caranddriver.com
