India, April 5 -- Last week we found ourselves in the Algarve, a region on Portugal's southern coast. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world, with hills flush with an abundance of citrus trees bearing lemons and oranges and every ridgeline topped with a wind-turbine. One can understand why BMW loves Portugal so much for their media drives. But we were driving the BMW 7-series, not the sort of car which you would imagine that is designed to handle either the sharp corners of the mountain roads or the long sweeping high-speed turns of the Portuguese highways. The 7-series is after all a limousine, it's a car meant for VIP's extremely comfortable drive from his or her home to office and back with an occasional trip to the airpor...