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Motor Trend
|August 2019
The BMW 7 Series offers a tablet to control features from the rear seat—an amusing toy.
Back in its 20s, the BMW 7 Series knew exactly what it was. Sleek, powerful, athletic, the 7 Series was confident. It was the Ultimate Driving Machine for the masters of the universe. Now in its mid-40s, the 7 Series has lost confidence in itself, in its purpose.
It’s packed on the pounds despite the carbon-fiber work it had done a few years back. Sure, it’s still a better runner than the old man from Stuttgart, but it’s not its younger self, either. The S-Class, though, knows exactly what it is: the standard in the luxury sedan class.
This story is from the August 2019 edition of Motor Trend.
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