2013 BMW 760Li - Car and Driver
The chrome “V-12” badge on the cover of the owner’s manual is the only place you’ll find a direct reference to the BMW 760Li’s engine configuration. Buyers who plunk down roughly $50,000 more than the cost of a V-8 750Li don’t need some stinking badge to tell the world they’re driving something special. Indeed, demonstrating the 760Li’s superiority is simply a matter of flooring the gas pedal. Rear drive is the only option with the V-12, as the driving gods intended. Ripping away from a stop, the 760Li reels in the horizon like Bill Dance hauling in a smallmouth, and acceleration is so rapid that the head-up display’s digital speed indicator can’t keep up. Numbers skip from 32 mph to 45, 67, 131, and so on,... We hit 60 mph in a ridiculous-for-this-size 4. 3 seconds, and 130 mph arrives in fewer than 16. We’ve tested an A8L 4. 0T to 60 in fewer than four seconds, but that car features launch-aiding Quattro and weighs some 500 fewer pounds. That’s a more rewarding sled to pilot than the 7-series, and it placed ahead of a prerefresh 750Li in a comparison test won by an A8L. In terms of other 7s, this V-12 car isn’t as racy as the slightly more-powerful Alpina B7. Source: www.caranddriver.com
