LOL MR members complaining as always. The article is about the more seamless integration of car play which is a good step in my opinion, not about the looks of BMW (who have always been trying to separate themselves a bit from other brands look wise). I like the look of that front end, the plate placement simply is the problem. Also awful lot of complaining about design from people who probably have hoopty or redneck truck sitting in their driveway. And I seriously loled about that comparison to that hideous KIA ^^
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BMW i4 Showcases Fully Integrated Apple CarPlay in Instrument Cluster
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I too am in the UK. And have spent most of my driving years autos.
Though my own have been ICE with an auto gearbox, bear in mind all electric vehicles and all hybrids.
It has reached the point where many learning to drive see no point in going for the manual shift licence.
Funny how everyone’s experience varies. Just did over 7k kms driving around europe this summer and continuously found Apple Maps a better experience than Google Maps. Traffic, routing, etc…much better. Especially in countries with the updated maps…
One instance in particular is where I got directions from Apple Maps and the predicted ETA was much longer than Google’s - about a 1.5 Hr difference due to traffic. So we decided to go with Google’s guidance (wifes phone) and I used Apple Maps (CarPlay) for comparison to see how they could get it so wrong. Well lo and behold Apple ended up being correct from the start. Google kept updating the ETA as we drove where it eventually displayed the same time as Apple. It just seems that in my recent experience, Google over promises and under delivers.
Touche, as they say, shift happens...
There's hope yet - a two speed manual gear box to get all the performance out of the motor.
Still is on the ‘21 Ridgeline.
At least they finally got away from the Dame Edna look of the early ‘00’s.
Ford went all in on the ‘14 Edge. Absolutely miserable thing to deal with. Thankfully it’s the wife’s car and she has to deal with it. 😆
I agree (about the minimal equipment - not the self driving crap). And don’t forget the clutch.
“Red Barchetta” explains the sentiment for me much better than I could explain it myself.
"I think the point is that turn by turn directions from CarPlay can be displayed in the driver’s dash. Can you do that in your 500? I don’t mean that in a cheeky way, I’m genuinely asking."
No I can't do that with the fiat 500e but it would be really nice if I could. I can only have the cars own maps in the driver's instrument display.
No I can't do that with the fiat 500e but it would be really nice if I could. I can only have the cars own maps in the driver's instrument display.
An honest company would also acknowledge "yeah, we were gonna charge $80/yr for a feature that we didn't even develop, and we totally would've if we had gotten away with it!".
EA is just as good these days, or so I am told. Plus you get Apple CarPlay, which trumps the SC network right?
lol no not even close. Let's say if I am driving from LA to SF and need to stop at Tejon Ranch to charge. There would be at one time 5 available EA chargers(along with like 16 slow chargers at the outlet) assuming no one is using them at the time. In the same location Tesla has close to 50 chargers.
Tesla Superchargers all tend to be in more convenient areas as well, next to fwys and surrounded by fastfood/starbucks. EVGO/EA/Chargepoint puts their chargers in Walmart parking lots.
or a Wall-e.
For what it's worth, BMW's rationale was the fee was to cover the cost of updating CarPlay's integration with iDrive as the two systems were updated. They may have not developed CarPlay but if Apple made changes they'd need to test and update iDrive if needed. If it was my decision I would simply amortize the costs for updates during the warranty over the entire production run and make it standard; thereby avoiding the subscription fiasco while still getting paid for development. After the warranty runs out owners would need a pad upgrade if Apple breaks CarPlay or be SOL if the change it so it is not backwards compatible.
That brings up an interesting side discussion. Many 40 year old cars still work fine and are quite repairable. With all the integrated electronics and moves to even more sophisticated ones today's cars may not enjoy the same longevity, or have stuff like CarPlay no longer work because the Apple or the car manufacturer EOL the product a long time ago and so a new phone will not work with it.
And as with many, worked its way into the common vernacular.
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Yes, since the Tesla UI is already very good and not like my old Lexus UI when I would just click on Carplay right away(most annoying part is not allowing you to start in carplay). Google maps takes a bit of getting used to since it doesn't show traffic signals. But it is still better than any built in GPS on the market.
TBQH it feels like something Apple designed.
The grill grows on you after a while, but the worse thing about these new BMW’s for me is the 1 series now being front wheel drive (based on the Mini platform).
It is, apparently, "head-up display" in Legacy English. Wikipedia also weirdly uses the UK spelling.
Except the Tesla is missing Apple Music, and Apple Maps.
**** Spotify and **** Google respectively. Add these and I wouldn’t care about CarPlay.
