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They're not replacing anything; they're simply not installing the required components to make touch screens work. The idrive module has been in every bmw with
by eganist 5y ago
They're not replacing anything; they're simply not installing the required components to make touch screens work.
The idrive module has been in every bmw with an infotainment system since the 745i in 2003; a touchpad was slowly introduced to the center control wheel about a decade later.
The one in the video was also present in my 2014 model. It works well; they haven't had much of a reason to change it. The touchscreen was intended as an added input method.
- drewg123 5y agoThanks for the clarification. The impression that I had from the headline, and what seems like a large percentage of others had, is that they are doing away with modern infotainment and going back to 90s style analog controls, which they are not. I think this is unfortunate. It would be nice to have a new, modern retro performance sedan with totally analog controls. I think car controls were the best in the mid-late 90s, when there were levers and switches and dials for everything, and very few computers. And I say this as a long-time Tesla (X) owner. The Tesla climate control never fails to piss me off. Its amazingly hard to get it to just blow outside air at me. In an older car, nothing would change the fan speed or enable/disable recirc if I had the audacity to park my car overnight.