gavriil

gavriil

I dont know. For climate and radio, I still prefer to have the buttons on my fingertips. Call me concervative but to get into a menu in order to adjust the temp by a degree is too much. Unless if they have manual overrides for simple tasks like these.

gavriil

Yeap! The manual temp controls are there...

danny25

I agree, I like to have the most often used controls (like climate control and radio) as simple as possible.

soopa

those knobs look loike their made by GM


what happen to tradition bmw buttons

dragon084

yeah i seen the new 5 series... kinda hot

Beltfed

The interior of the new 5series blows, it doesn't hold a candle to the W211 Eclass.

DISRUPTV

10000000% true...i'm disgusted by the new interior in the 5series...looks cheaper than the e39 and less luxurious

heyitsme

i like buttons, a bare dash like the one bmw is trying to create looks cheap imo. if you're going to make the majority of functions computer based at least do what acura has done, make a stylish center area for a large screen.

ItalianStallion

the people that have had the idrive for a lil while seem to like it fine and say its really easy. it appears the only people who bitch about it being hard to understand are the people who dont have it (and old people that have no hand eye coordination).

it only took me 15 minutes at the dealer to figure it out when it first came out. i really dont find it as much of a pain as alot of people make it out to be. buttons for air controls are good though eventhough they dont look that great.

gavriil

I noted that during my test drive of the Z4 last winter actually. Before I got in the Z4, I got in a "just imported" new 7 series. I was totally surprised at the interior's loss of quality. I could not believe it. And it continues with the new 5 here. The Z4 actually, overall, probably has the better made interior of all. Very puzzled I am at BMW's direction with that.

Chaptorial

That iDrive looks like a real accident maker.