One glance at the tested model - a 760i, the second-most expensive of four trim levels of BMW's 2006 7 Series - certainly offered the prospect of many happy motoring days ahead. Everything on the car looks bigger than life.
The monster-size, 20-inch performance tires look like rock crushers, with the rubber wrapped around alloy wheels that seem to contain 20 spokes each.
Those big tires make the 760i seem like it has the dimensions of a mini-limo, yet it actually falls just short of 200 inches in length.
The engine driving all this is a 6-liter, quad-cam V-12 with 48 valves. Those big numbers generate even more big numbers: 438 horsepower and 444 foot-pounds of torque stepping up at just under 4,000 revolutions per minute.
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