Summary: I can't believe this passed as the luxury pinnacle 30 years ago

Cup holder is USA only. In Europe we drive the car and drink coffee elsewhere.

The rear seat belt is arranged that way because it restrains the passengers better, allegedly the head does not knock on the vehicle side on a side impact. That is all to it, no Taxi myth, no first responder myth.

Cars like this were at the pinnacle of creative design and comfort. Not sure why they are compared to modern cars when they're in a league of their own!

Good job 👌👍

3:35 I think those slots are for toll coins. I hear toll roads used to be all over Germany

In the days before BMWs got unbelievably complex and difficult to work on and maintain.

Im actually digging all the "over-thought touches"

11:48 - Sure the 'L' stood for Limousine which came with extra 50mm for leg room

The miles don't me anything. Only taking care of the car will make any car last long

Doug is the type guy... to pull his Oreo's apart and lick the inside first.

full of shit .... every auto i have driven has a 1 2 3 D ...... you dont have to switch to manual mode .... typical doug ....

why is the car constantly leaking fluids?

leaking bmw...yup, 30 years later it is stil a feature xD

still not sure if the v12 was a big deal at the time

Bosch didn't make a V12 Motronic ECU in 1987, so BMW used two fully separate 6-cylinder engine control systems for this engine. There are 2 fuel pumps, 2 distributors, 2 ECMs, etc. You can run the engine and drive around on the right or left bank only, which is sometimes useful for diagnostic trouble-shooting.

Jaguars had V12 engines before BMW.

I just love these old BMW wheels so much. I have no idea why maybe its just nostalgia but these wheels look so amazing and have always looked amazing to me ever since i was little and first saw them

Did you forget to mention the powered rear seats!!!?

really shows how the top of the line features eventually become common/standard so entry level cars are better than top of class luxury cars from decades ago.

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19:28 aaaaand some liquid dripping out from the engine 💁‍♂️ a true BMW

Those wheels are made in Italy. They are the EXACT same wheels that are fitted to The 95 MERC, but mine have Mercury Hubcaps. Those wheels were fitted to early-90s Crown Vics, Grand Marquis , and Town Cars. I took 'em off of a '92 Crown Vic, and fitted used Mercury caps -- I like the looks of the classic-style pattern that I call "Italian Lace". Getting hard to find quality tires for the 15-inchers -- may have to go to 17s. www.mercuryforum.com/forum/grand-marquis-14/1995-grand-marquis-restoration-8937/

Even w126 was still swaggier.

Tea shelf Doug, tea shelf.

19:28 Car was taking a piss stealthily

BMW quality huh good joke

Apparently the rear seat belts were designed that way to priorise stopping lateral movement in a side impact, so rear occupants would not clash heads. I have so much of this exact same stuff as options in one of my 540i E34s (the cheaper baby brother to the E32). I love it all, especially the first aid kit under the front seat that was "Made in West Germany". Along with the more modern V8/5 speed in the lighter E34, it is a classic car that is far more liveable than other 30 year old cars, it is fantastically cheap as its the under the radar consumable alternative to these classics, but the high build quality means a lot of the stuff lasts if its kept clean. Modern suspension really helps wake these up (the body roll on worn stock suspension is especially horrible)

That's a car I never knew existed in the USA. The Ford contour svt. Known in the UK as the mondeo st mk1 Great cars

I remeber the dealer said it can run on 6 cyclinder to save fuel, may be he was just joking.

Jag v12.......

My 1994 Bronco had power lumbar, peak of luxury I tell you what

And you're supposed to use the kickdown.

I had a 32 for my firs car. In mine at least, the shifter just let you use the manual gears and the switch was for manual and automatic traction control.

O god, looking at this CD PLAYER! I remember times when me and my mates were stopping in the middle of the road at night changing the CDs in my father's Audi 80 b4... Haha

THIS is a door-handle, you can use it to open the door. This was cutting edge technology in 1990.

@5:30 Doug: "No luxury brand today would have a gear lever like this! The shape is ridiculous!" Audi: "Erm.."

I had one 750i e32 10years ago. The comfort in this car is way better then many new cars. This one I had was an 92 model and there was a sport mode in the gear box. It was not slow at all. So 1 in score is simply false.

02:03 is the car leaking?

They also came with V8s at least in europe

19:29 something dripping from under the car

Thiiiiiis iiiiiis a BMW.....

Doug forgot to show the most amazing quirk! When you operate the electric seats then the seatbelt height will adjust itself automatically! I owned a 735 back in the day and was amazed by that feature.

wait but i was born in 1991, wait but this says 30 years old

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I love u man x i love the way you review cars all most mach jeremy clarcson . You should have tv show bro

My dad had a car like this. 750il. Fastest speed I have been in a car 260kms no problem at all and smooth all the way

19:28 That's probably where the "Intense window cleaning" fluid went...

I really want more these classic cars the old BMW series and Mercedes types of classes please it's way better than the modern ones

Those 15's must be so damn comfortable, as luxury cars should be.

Correction Doug, at 17:54 you mention there was no V8 option until the 540i and 740i, but you forgot the 840i.

Some comments: The rear seat buckles are in thr oppsite side due to the rear seat passengers shouldn´t collide the heads in an accident. Info from the brouchure I had back in the days. The V12 produces 300 hp, at least here in Europe. As you said, Mercedes was wayyy later with the V12, the needed something that was special... Mercedes V12 produced 300 kW (instead of hp) that equals to 408 hp. But only some years later du to emission rules down to 397 hp, but 292 kW wasn´t that cool.... :D Thank you for this review of my "Traumwagen" (dream car) of the 80´s and early 90´s!!!!

That car is magnificent!

19:22 lol oil leak?

uh-oh, what's drippin' there? (19:28) and no Doug, it didn't do 200mph (was limited to 250kph instead)

I guess Doug forgot about the Jag XJ V12?

Title: V12 Content: Cupholders

I wonder how that V12 felt 🤔

My first car was an E32 735IL. Still one of my favorite cars and it's still on the road today. BMW doesn't make them like they used to. You can really tell the difference between an 80's BMW and a mid 2000's BMW. On the shift mode selector mine had an S button that you could get to by pushing the whole slider down. I think the E was for Economy because that was the standard mode every time you started the car. Mine had a quirk where the BC would go into German every couple starts.

First mainstream V12 ? The nice people at Jaguar might want to argue that point .

I owned a 1991 535 I. To this day, it’s still my favorite car. Sidenote, it was dark green with gold rims. We used to say “green for the money, gold for the honey”

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This thing, from 1991, is nicer than most cars in 2021!

Jaguar offered V12s in their full size sedans since the 80s

Doug is the kind of guy who struggles to understand why a Model T Ford didn't come equipped with airbags.

Pretty sure the auto dimmer is just that...you don't have to position the slider under the word "Auto" Doug. The word "Auto" just lets you know the mirror has an auto dimmer. You slide the leaver to the position you want and the auto dimmer feature dims the mirror based on where you have positioned the slider.

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15:13 that's a miata

200mp/h on Autobahn? Ok...... more like 155..... You should seperate the old cars from the new ones, it is getting boring everytime you say the same stuff. Or stick to the new cars-I dont care much about them-if a person is into those classic cars all the modern stuff is not needed.

I like the fact I can see the car I won on CarsandBids in this video lol ... Thanks Doug for a great platform

Haven't checked out a DD video in a long time (the V12 drew me in), and a few seconds in, I remember why I stopped watching. I don't get why people like this shtick, but to each his own. I ffwded to the drive portion hoping he'd have something fun or meaningful to share, but it was just as inane.

The phone, those 1-10 labels are for shortcuts, not numbers...

is this what you call a cat in a hat?

Badging. I never notice that BMW's Helvetica font on the badging doesn't have the German crossing of the stem of the 7. Kind of trivial, but weird.

Compare the styling of this car to a late 80s/early 90s American luxury sedan, especially the interior and you can tell why this was a benchmark.

BMW of earlier years (not sure about modern ones) had an extra reservoir with a special cleaning fluid in the engine bay which was activated by the S function ( I had it in an old 5 series). It was more aggressive, so no need to use it all the time e.g. in rainy weather. But if you had a long journey on the Autobahn with a lot of dead bugs on the windscreen it came in handy... I guess that is also the case here.

That big four-door Beast has nothing on an 850 I which was just a 2-door V12 monster

the gear shows e means eco mode i think

Love old cars

So Doug remembers this being a big deal when he was 2 years old...

Crazy that the temperatures are in Farenheit

This car is hard. Looks way better than new cars, and elicits nostaligia for the cocaine 80s.

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Yea bmw got mercedes scared, they came out with w140 s klass, best s class ever. World balance restored bmw behind mercedes.

Doug is the type of guy to get hungry admiring a Oreo looking fan speed dial

You didn't mention the car has a hydraulic self leveling suspension. It was a big deal for that time and also the car's downfall. Once the rear seals went out it was a $9k repair.

No cupholders?!? Are you saying we have to stop drinking and eating for maybe an hour, while we drive around!?! How do you do that? How do you keep your weight at 600 pounds mark?!

This was the first luxury car that my dad bought to treat himself after he "made it". It was his baby and he really loved it, even though it had to go to service all the time and was something of a lemon (first year model.) I drove it fairly regularly. But one night in the late 90's while in high school, I got in an accident and totaled it. Still one of my worst memories having to wake my dad in the middle of the night, with the car on a tow truck in the drive way.

Doug the type of guy to have someone drive him around and have champagne in the bmw 750L V12.....

Doug the type of guy to drive his V12 bmw around the neighborhood making loud engine sounds......

19:28 Ah yess...The typical bmw leak..

Didn’t the Jaguar XJ12 and Toyota Century had a V12 before BMW and Mercedes-Benz did? Then Audi followed with their V12 or W12 later. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin always had V12s. Eventually Rolls Royce and Bentley joined the V12 club.

My e34 330i Wagon's interior is such a replica of this interior, same colour as well

I bought a fairly spec'd up 318is in 92 and so many of the features shown in the 750 were familiar. I also remember an article in about 93 that listed the cars that best retained their value (318, something like 90%) and worst (750, 50%).

Still don't know why people think the E38 looks better than this model. E32 is still the best looking 7 series as far as I am concerned.

interesting

An automatic shifter going 1-2-3-D isn't that strange it was pretty common. Even honda accords from 1989 had shifters like that.

I owned one of these from 1991-2002, and absolutely loved the car. I had it Dinan-modified, which gave it more push and actually improved the mpg. It remains the most comfortable cross-country driving vehicle I've ever owned, smooth, quiet and relaxing to drive, but unlike a Cadillac, it handled extremely well at speed in winding country roads. Maintenance was a bit spendy unsurprisingly. We lived in Detroit at the time. My car was black, and I'm sure we were seen as entrepreneurs in illicit enterprises. You didn't mention the window shades, the reclining back seats, the incredible fit and finish of all surfaces nor the leather quality which shows in your vehicle. I still think it is a beautiful car and a real benchmark t the time.

I grew up in one of these. I can still smell that amazing leather.