2011 BMW ActiveHybrid 750Li - Short Take Road Test - Car and Driver
The latest in Bavaria’s barrage of the bizarre, the ActiveHybrid 7-series—a full-size “luxury performance” hybrid—seems to actually make sense relative to those two. What makes the ActiveHybrid 7—available in both short- and long-wheelbase forms—strange is BMW’s boast that it is the quickest hybrid sedan on the market. However, if a 7-series customer believes he needs a car more powerful than the 750i but doesn’t want to step up to the 12-cylinder 760Li—which we think he should—and also wants 15 percent or so better fuel economy, BMW has just the model. BMW’s engineers claim they set out to increase fuel economy, and the performance gains are a secondary benefit they hadn’t intended, but that sounds like PR script to us. No dim bulbs, they probably had a hunch that adding a bunch of extra power... Regardless of whether or not they had that hunch, we did, and we were right: In our testing, the 750Li ActiveHybrid went from 0 to 60 mph in 4. 5 seconds and through the quarter-mile in 12. 8 at 112 mph. 7 second quicker to 60 and 0. 9 quicker through the quarter than the last non-hybrid 750Li to wear our test gear. Source: www.caranddriver.com
