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a couple years ago bmw was just so far ahead of everyone in electrification and

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then they sort of fell behind until now today we have the bmw ix and this thing

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is well the power train's really good at least i wish i could say the rest is

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freaking sweet let's have a look

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why are you so loud the looks are

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a bit on the questionable side in black i think it looks pretty good any other

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color and it's just absolutely terrible like here it all looks great and like a

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white one though like this remains black that remains black down here remains

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black just get the black one we also have the kidneys here i kind of think it

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looks like someone's butt cheeks put up against a pane of glass to each their

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own i guess anyway if you look really closely there's some radar sensors that

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are integrated in here and it's pretty cool we also have a bmw logo and if you

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push on it that's where your windshield washer fluid goes

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nice although some of the design language and

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body lines might be a little bit on the questionable side as far as design goes

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at least there's good engineering reason for it the coefficient of drag of this

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thing is 0.25 which is freaking

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incredible for reference the x6 is 0.34

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that's just so much highway efficiency that they've gained here it's amazing

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how they've done that one more thing though the hood inside there's no

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obvious latch or anything so i looked in the owner's manual and it just says only

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openable by bmw servicemen uh we're gonna see about that one second

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i haven't actually done this yet but apparently there's two little things that you can pull on each side to unlock

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it oh no that's the whole panel that's coming off i don't want to do that or do

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i uh let's look on the other side i guess

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oh there's one okay

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oh oh heck yeah

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i'm half curious if they did this just so they didn't have to you know install

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anything to hold your hood up and the instructions that i saw they recommend

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just putting an allen key through this hole right here not a good start from a

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right to repair standpoint it's bad bmw wow this thing's making some load of a

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racket for a car that's turned off i'm guessing that it's the heat pump so i've

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got this absolutely massive intercooler here and it seems like that there's a

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pump that's right there that has to be the heat pump that's keeping everything

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cool air conditioning whatnot another reason they might not want you looking

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under here is look at the snake age they couldn't make this any nicer like this

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piece right here though that is some solid reinforcement i guess that's the

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crash structure probably a real safe one so it's real heavy i need to stop doing

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that along the side first of all we have this gold trim which i think looks pretty

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good with the black as long as you're into fancy stuff more interestingly

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though the whole width of the top half of the car reduces as it goes along the

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length this also helps you get that super low drag coefficient and also is

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very effective and having almost zero rear visibility around the back the way

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that they've done the diffusion in these leds just looks so sick excellent job

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bmw as for the rest it's pretty good but

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again it looks way better with the black paint compared to any other color for

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the trunk it opens up pretty normally and you can just stop it wherever

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there's no sensors for the height and if you go to set it here you can go like

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that and i bonked it off the ceiling of

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my car park as you can see the high points right on the bmw logo i'm sorry

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langley bmw you are able to set the height that the liftgate opens to in the

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menu but it's a lot less intuitive than just holding this for a couple seconds

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anyway the trunk itself is pretty good the underfloor has heaps of room for all

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of your random crap that you have to keep in your car the actual trunk is

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nice and big and you have these buttons right here so you can put your seats down

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it works really fast what you can also see back here is just the massive amount

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of carbon fiber you can see it alongside the doors as well there's a whole carbon

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fiber roll hoop in this thing which will be great if you flip it and also helps

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explain why it's so freaking expensive along this side we have our charging

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ports ac dc it's good for 200 kilowatts

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of fast charging that gets you from i think it's 20 to 80 in 30 minutes pretty

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good not as good as you know lots of other cars to open the doors you have to

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do kind of a up and in sort of thing pretty easy from the outside actually

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and in the back there's another little switch here that puts your seats down

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awesome that's easy for both sides the rear seats are incredibly

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comfortable if you're very short if you're not then uh well as you can see

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my legs are just up way too high the floor in here it's not low enough i

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guess that helps out with the 500 kilometers of range other than that it's

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a pretty nice spot to be i do have to say you have heaps of climate controls

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in here also have this weird put your jacket on and put your ipad on it type

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thing we also have two usb type-c chargers and two cup holders

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oh i know ski hatch

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hopping into the driver's seat this is where the big problems start to happen

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now first of all just opening the door it's pretty easy you push this button

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here but your ARM's at this like weird angle so you sort of have to push the

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button and then either sort of like force it at a weird angle with bad

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leverage or you like press it and then push again up here it's just a bad spot

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bmw please test these things above that we have these crystal c controls they

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look really fancy and also uh don't do everything that you need a seat control

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to do for that you press here and then you get your seat controls that you have

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to use the infotainment for it had a similar thing in the volvo but this is

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just worst done in every single way why they are using like same icon for

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everything in here we also have massaging functionality i can turn that

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on it's a rather pleasant i guess i wouldn't use it too much after the

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gimmick wore off moving on though the climate control menu makes all of the

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sea controls just downright the most intuitive thing ever like whoever

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decided that this is how you should have your climate control should be fired

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like actually how is this acceptable at all this is literally the most dog

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climate controls that's ever existed in a car ever it's so bad it's every single

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like what do these icons mean i don't know it's overwhelming when you look at

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it and then you can use like their little control thingy but then you have

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to go to each one and individually select it like ah abominable on top of

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that if you like turn on let's say your seat heating oh the icon didn't turn up

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great there we go your seat ventilation an icon pops up here let's go back we're

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doing whatever with media and crap and you want your seat ventilation turned

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off we click this no it just takes you back to this menu instead of you know

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everything else you'd be able to just change it from right here it also goes

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away i would love it if i could just press right there have my seat heater

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turn on turn off nope they don't do it anyway the rest of the menus also

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look at this if you need to have a search at the top

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of your menu you have done it wrong there's so much stuff in here i don't

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use any of it the saving grace of all this is down here they at least have

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most of the stuff that you need easily accessible down here it's a wooden

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touch thing it's all pretty simple to use and works pretty well we also have

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this incredibly fancy crystal little

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what is this m box knob i don't care the rotate feels incredibly nice the

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detent's good but it's a little bit too loose compared to going from side to

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side now you might think you could just ignore this knob and operate everything

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by touch but it's all a bit of a reach and i have very long arms bmw i did a

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whole video on all of the stuff that you've done in order to like prototype

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your new vehicles how did you land on this how did you test it and think huh

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this is better it's not it's terrible it's complete garbage but anyway you'll

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just use Android auto it works really poorly with the little dobby thingy here

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but whatever you'll get used to it this one feature

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requires my scroll of knowledge up above us we have electrochromic glass

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so this basically is like a sandwich structure so you have your polymer

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dispersed liquid crystals in between two pieces of glass it acts very similar to

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how your tv works but instead of you know a backlight it's the sunroof in

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this so how it works here when it's off and no voltage is applied all of the

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crystals that are in your little sandwich there are orientated any which

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way so the light comes in and it hits it and just kind of bounces off the whole

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thing appears opaque um then once you turn it on all of the

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liquid crystals align and the light can go right through and then your sunroof

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is nice and transparent that's cool um it's completely a gimmick it's not very

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functional but science that's driving that's good at least

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real fast one here 523 horsepower 560

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some foot pounds of torque there's a lot of torque here like if you're just going

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along you know you can just like boom oh my god electric is just so incredible no

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gasoline engine can do that it's just like bam

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one thing that you should note is that you uh can't adjust where the headrest

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is and there's a little plastic bit right here so if you have a shorter

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passenger like my missus was maybe don't do that because their head can hit on

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the plastic thing it hurts a lot i need my phone back

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once you've done the launch a couple of times

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you're gonna get tired of that and want to go in here and now we've got personal

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mode here which uh you might think you could adjust uh nope efficient mode nope

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so the only mode that you can do anything in is sport mode which means

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that you can turn sport mode into a not quite sporty sort of comfort mode but

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then you lose your sport mode so uh just give me an individual mode bmw why the

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hell is personal mode not personalizable it's so stupid anyway once you get it

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into personal mode the whole thing softens up and the ability for this thing to just

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eat up bumps is excellent now this also

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means that uh even in sport mode it's not that good in the corners but just

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the amount of body roll that you get is a little bit excessive it really dips

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and dives into the corners the steering also just doesn't inspire a whole lot of

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confidence for me for whatever reason it's good right here but in sort of like

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the middle bit from sort of here to there there's just not a whole lot of

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feedback and i can find that i'd sort of drift around accidentally when i don't

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mean to i kind of wish there was a bit more centering but then again centering

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normally feels weird it just feels a little bit weird also one fun thing that

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they've done is make a hexagonal steering wheel it gets kind of weird to

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hit your turn signal because when you're on like you know the pointy bits your

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hands a bit far away from it i don't think that drivers of this use their

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turn signals anyway but if you are the sort of person that turns signals it's

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annoying to use because of this here we have the iconic sounds apparently it was

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designed by hans zimmer and we can uh

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yeah we'll just turn that back off i think it's dumb nitpicking aside though

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the suspension setup in this thing is fantastic we have the adjustable dampers

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and the air suspension package so you can't adjust the height but like this

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thing just eats up the road like you can go over so many bumps like this is a

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kind of bumpy road that we're on right now couldn't tell the comfort of this

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thing is exceptional and it does that without bouncing and having sort of

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weird unsettling of the chassis it's

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really really well set up it also somehow masks the fact that this is

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55.000 pounds of car this thing is so heavy and

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you don't have that like super stiffness like you have in a lot of electric cars

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along with the excellent driving dynamics the driver assists in this are

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just awesome i have without a doubt used

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the lane centering in this more than any other car that i've used before the way

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that it's able to just not only hold you in the lane but dip into corners in a

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way that inspires confidence i have not experienced in any other vehicle the one

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not quite as good spot is if you're coming up on a car that's stopped at a

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light it does stop you and it stops you fairly smoothly but it does it way too

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late it's breaking like you know the person where like you look at their car

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and their front wheels are just caked in brake dust yep that's me it breaks like

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that person like you're just coming off on there you're like are you gonna stop

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are you gonna stop are you gonna stop okay okay we're stopping sounds like a

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bmw driver yep sounds like a bmw driver now one bit of a brown stain on this car

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is the audio setup we have the base spec harman kardon stereo and it's just not

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all that good at lower levels like we're listening to right now it's acceptable

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but once you push it up a little bit

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there must be a whole bunch of distortion or something it hurts my ears

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even at not very loud levels it's it's just not very good the clarity is not

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there for five thousand dollars you are able to get a bowers and wilkins upgrade

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and if that's anything like the system that we had in the volvo s90 get that

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this harman kardon one is not acceptable in a car that's forty thousand dollars

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let alone one that's a hundred like just listen to this andy

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it feels so dry ugh i had a similar

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thing where my ears would start hurting in my golf when i first got it and i was

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able to solve that with just heaps of dynamite not acceptable that you have to

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dynam a car that's this expensive so the price this one right here comes

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in at a hundred and twelve thousand dollars canadian and what do you get for

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that you get

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that power train that immediate torque but at the same time the suspension

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that's able to keep up with all of the mass the battery's at and they do add a

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lot again 500 kilometers of range i have

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had no trouble at all you can go a day or two without charging it and your

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commute's not going to be affected overall i'm kind of able to ignore how

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just complete dog the infotainment is because you can kind of just go in

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there have a terrible day or two setting everything up once it's set up

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everything that you need is down in this area and you'll just use Android auto or

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apple carplay so then should you buy one

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like you can jeez even if you have the money apparently at langley bmw

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they have what 150 people in line up no 170 170 people in line up they aren't

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going to be taking deliveries until like 20 24 g's if you're not already on the

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list you're so huge thanks to bmw langley for giving

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this vehicle if you guys give us the i4 i would very much appreciate that i'll

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be less mad about the whole infotainment thing because i've already had my rant

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about it we'll just drive it