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Buick and GMC Announce CarPlay Coming to Select 2016 Vehicles
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I would trade my BMW in for a Tesla ANY day..... BMWs have the worst interface, and the connected drive is a joke. Great drive though! I don't enjoy driving too much because I'm usually stuck in traffic...
Yeah, and their air drag coefficient of a fridge is no coincidenceFatties need fat vehicles.
.That photo was taken at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City
Don't know which iDrive you're talking about but the newest one is awesome and the interface is a joy and ease to use.
Why can't someone have CarPlay as a buying decision, why does it offend you so much? I have a number of things I'm looking for in a new car and yes CarPlay is one of them. Technology is becoming an ever more important part of a car and I want the best, as in something built my Software people, not car makers!
Have you ever heard of a car manufacturer other than Tesla offering easy, free software updates? I haven't. I know Honda offers $100 software updates for their cars - you order them and they show up on a DVD in the mail. I know other manufacturers let you bring them into a shop and they'll charge you similar amounts for them to update the software for you.
I lease my vehicle's so do not make any modifications. The stock player is actually important for this reason. It is a must for my next car. That may be wrong to you, but it is important to me. The car I have for 24 months pretty much stays as is from the day I get it.
Before anyone says it.....I do not need advice on leasing vs buying or how people think it is a waste. I like to have a new car every few years and never worry about maintenance.
If you want to make that conclusion about one car, I'll make my judgements about Japanese and British design based on this:
Yeah, well for 99.99% of Americans that would be just rationalization. Lots of big trucks here in Florida for example, and for no reason other than most people couldn't fit into a smaller car. They'll try to justify it by saying they need to haul stuff, but for those rare occasions it's far cheaper to rent than buy.
Did you forget to put winter tires on it? Drove a BMW through WI winters for 8 years straight. I didn't drive off road through snow drifts as that would be daft--Stuck to the roads as usual.
That building is the Rio Tinto Center | Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
http://www.nhmu.utah.edu
Y'all should check it out sometime - amazing place.
No problem. You only need to wait another decade or so, and BMW will be about where Tesla is now!
Not offended, but one would think a cars mileage, reliability and maybe other features would come before carplay is even important?
Realizing that everybody has a different way of buying and using cars. The way I buy a new or used cars carplay will never be a selling point to me. Hook up my iPhone in the car: DONE!
But, then that's just me. I drive my cars until they no longer work. 200,000 miles on my current one and still going strong and an American car to boot.
Go figure
It's not a house, it's the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City. See this post #29. Really cool place should check it out if ever in Salt Lake City!
Yet, Americans continue to purchase them in record numbers. Gas has to be back to $4.00 + per gallon to change mindsets. Maybe even higher now that we are so accustomed to $3.00 as the norm?