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BMW M760Li — large, lavish limo a rare good sport
The fastest production car BMW has ever built turns out to be … a 7 Series limo
Nobody has really noticed it, but BMW has built the fastest, most powerful car in its history, the speed wrapped in an outrageously opulent limo. Truth be told, the sprinting advantage over the M5 and M4 is because this limo has all-wheel drive and the M cars only have rear-drive. Still, the M760i hustles in corners, is brutal in a straight line and is wonderfully comfortable everywhere else, but it’s still not an M7. M fought hard to stop this being called an M7. It must have been some fight. With a sprint to 100km/h in 3.7 seconds, it’s more than half a second quicker than the M5. The brave-driver versions have a limiter that stops them accelerating at 305km/h. At 448kW, no BMW production car has even approached this much gristle. Yet it’s a big car — a limousine first and foremost. M boss Franciscus van Meel insists there is no market for a true M7. He says any attempt to justify an M7 badge by bringing up AMG’s S63 and S65 aren’t valid because they aren’t really AMGs in the way ...
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