03-16-2024, 10:44 AM | #23 |
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As far as these screens across the whole dash goes......YACK !!!
F@#k are those ugly. I want a real dash with a cover on it as we are used to. I don't mind a digital display but at least make it glare proof. No cover equals " GLARE " I've seen this glare on dozens of test drive videos for various vehicles. Glare. Making the screens very difficult to see. I predict this design of flat coverless screens will go away. They look like shit on a blanket. |
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In some of the video's I've seen the reviewer was pointing stuff out on the screen and the light was glaring it unreadable mostly. Some of the screen was clear but the parts getting direct sun was very hard to see. Same with the angled center screens. For me anyway that large uncovered screen is a deal breaker. I could not buy one of those designs. So many times I've been excited to see this or that car and, boom, it has a flat screen uncovered. Interest drops to zero. Some of the reviewers feel the same way as me. YUCK ! |
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03-16-2024, 12:44 PM | #28 |
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I saw that. Don't we also have the flat front bumpers because of EU pedestrian regulations?
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Yeah but they don't need the rear and we do. lol
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So many brands are as you point out. But then I also see some models in various lineups that are not going that route. Whew ! Almost like they deliberately refuse to follow the trend. To me the big uncovered screens just don't cut the mustard...in any vehicle. I predict they go away after a number of years. |
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03-16-2024, 08:09 PM | #31 |
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I have the new iDrive action in my 24 x6mc and the lack of buttons is super annoying. I find myself putting my finger in the dash looking for buttons and presets that are not physically there. Happy that the m8 still has buttons.
Supposedly the in car computer is supposed to be able to control the majority of fictions via voice command but I haven’t tried any of that shit yet.
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Prepare to be extremely disappointed when you do try the voice command. I had a ‘24 760i for a couple weeks as a loaner and I swear the voice recognition is 10-steps backwards vs my current ‘22 XB7. The system requires absolute silence to even begin to work, and even then it only understood my simple requests for directions 10% of the time. Hard pass on iDrive 8.5! |
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03-17-2024, 12:28 PM | #33 |
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While you can "Hey BMW" a lot of things I want the instant gratification of pressing a button. I can put my X3 into sport mode with a button next to the shifter, but you have to look down and search for it every time. I can ask the car to do it, but the action time is slower than I'd want.
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I'm going to suggest that 7 series loaner had an issue
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Maybe so, but the iX I had prior was experiencing the same issues. There’s a chance it was because the eSim wasn’t activated? In any case, I was happy to get back into my button laden XB7.
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I don't need no Etch-A-Sketch dash in my baby.
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Hello guys,
In a few months I will be in the market for a new car. Wanted to order the new 540xi but unfortunately this engine will not be available for the 5 series in the European Union. So, it leaves me with the option of 840xi GC as the corporate discounts are huge here (25%) for such an old car in the BMW lineup. Actually I will need the car in March next year and at that moment 8 series will be the oldest car BMW will have it in production. I was one of the first people having the 5 series g30 since march 2017 (I replaced that 5 series in March 2021) and ordering now an 8 series seems to me as going back in time. So at the moment of the delivery, 8 series will be the last one in the BMW range with iDrive7. I'm pissed off also because the 40i engine is also the old version of the engine and not the new one with 381HP+mild hybrid. 8 series is a fantastic beautiful car, but still doesnt feel right to me to order such an old design, old tech, old powertrain...it is giving me the feeling that I will buy an used Bmw, not a new one. I'm not one of the people who loves the new design language of BMW, but still... What is your opinion, am I wrong? |
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03-22-2024, 04:33 AM | #43 |
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It may be the oldest car the lineup but I think it's the best looking. And if a V8 is old tech I will happily take it over an electric vehicle.
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The same felling here, no way to think electrics.
Unfortunately no V8 accesibility for me, so I need to stick with L6, 40xi. As previous mentioned, I'm so dissapointed that when the facelift popped up, they didn't upgraded to the new engine of 381Hp. The 40xi 8 series still have the old 333HP engine and that is at the bottom limit. The 381HP engine could give me more happines. This is the main dissapointment for me, because it looks like BMW kept the 8 series as NOT update at all. I could have this engine today without problems if I had this car since 2-3 years ago, but ordering in 2024 with delivery in 2025 and to fit a 7 years old engine sems not respectfull. |
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