WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.759 a couple years ago bmw was just so far ahead of everyone in electrification and 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:12.000 then they sort of fell behind until now today we have the bmw ix and this thing 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:17.920 is well the power train's really good at least i wish i could say the rest is 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:17.920 freaking sweet let's have a look 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:44.000 why are you so loud the looks are 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:49.360 a bit on the questionable side in black i think it looks pretty good any other 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:54.559 color and it's just absolutely terrible like here it all looks great and like a 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:58.160 white one though like this remains black that remains black down here remains 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:02.160 black just get the black one we also have the kidneys here i kind of think it 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:06.479 looks like someone's butt cheeks put up against a pane of glass to each their 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:11.119 own i guess anyway if you look really closely there's some radar sensors that 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:15.360 are integrated in here and it's pretty cool we also have a bmw logo and if you 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:17.600 push on it that's where your windshield washer fluid goes 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:22.400 nice although some of the design language and 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:26.400 body lines might be a little bit on the questionable side as far as design goes 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:31.600 at least there's good engineering reason for it the coefficient of drag of this 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:35.920 thing is 0.25 which is freaking 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:38.240 incredible for reference the x6 is 0.34 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:41.439 that's just so much highway efficiency that they've gained here it's amazing 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:45.040 how they've done that one more thing though the hood inside there's no 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:50.079 obvious latch or anything so i looked in the owner's manual and it just says only 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:54.399 openable by bmw servicemen uh we're gonna see about that one second 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:58.880 i haven't actually done this yet but apparently there's two little things that you can pull on each side to unlock 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:04.240 it oh no that's the whole panel that's coming off i don't want to do that or do 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:10.319 i uh let's look on the other side i guess 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:10.319 oh there's one okay 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:15.760 oh oh heck yeah 00:02:14.239 --> 00:02:19.280 i'm half curious if they did this just so they didn't have to you know install 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:22.319 anything to hold your hood up and the instructions that i saw they recommend 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:27.200 just putting an allen key through this hole right here not a good start from a 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:31.280 right to repair standpoint it's bad bmw wow this thing's making some load of a 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:35.200 racket for a car that's turned off i'm guessing that it's the heat pump so i've 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:39.680 got this absolutely massive intercooler here and it seems like that there's a 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:43.760 pump that's right there that has to be the heat pump that's keeping everything 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:47.200 cool air conditioning whatnot another reason they might not want you looking 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:51.360 under here is look at the snake age they couldn't make this any nicer like this 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:55.440 piece right here though that is some solid reinforcement i guess that's the 00:02:53.440 --> 00:02:58.720 crash structure probably a real safe one so it's real heavy i need to stop doing 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:03.599 that along the side first of all we have this gold trim which i think looks pretty 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:07.599 good with the black as long as you're into fancy stuff more interestingly 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:11.920 though the whole width of the top half of the car reduces as it goes along the 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.640 length this also helps you get that super low drag coefficient and also is 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:21.120 very effective and having almost zero rear visibility around the back the way 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:27.599 that they've done the diffusion in these leds just looks so sick excellent job 00:03:24.239 --> 00:03:30.080 bmw as for the rest it's pretty good but 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:35.200 again it looks way better with the black paint compared to any other color for 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:38.560 the trunk it opens up pretty normally and you can just stop it wherever 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:44.159 there's no sensors for the height and if you go to set it here you can go like 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:46.400 that and i bonked it off the ceiling of 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:51.440 my car park as you can see the high points right on the bmw logo i'm sorry 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:56.080 langley bmw you are able to set the height that the liftgate opens to in the 00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:00.480 menu but it's a lot less intuitive than just holding this for a couple seconds 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:05.040 anyway the trunk itself is pretty good the underfloor has heaps of room for all 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:08.640 of your random crap that you have to keep in your car the actual trunk is 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:13.200 nice and big and you have these buttons right here so you can put your seats down 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:17.199 it works really fast what you can also see back here is just the massive amount 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:21.919 of carbon fiber you can see it alongside the doors as well there's a whole carbon 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:26.560 fiber roll hoop in this thing which will be great if you flip it and also helps 00:04:23.919 --> 00:04:31.759 explain why it's so freaking expensive along this side we have our charging 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:33.360 ports ac dc it's good for 200 kilowatts 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:38.080 of fast charging that gets you from i think it's 20 to 80 in 30 minutes pretty 00:04:35.840 --> 00:04:42.639 good not as good as you know lots of other cars to open the doors you have to 00:04:39.840 --> 00:04:46.320 do kind of a up and in sort of thing pretty easy from the outside actually 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:50.479 and in the back there's another little switch here that puts your seats down 00:04:48.479 --> 00:04:54.720 awesome that's easy for both sides the rear seats are incredibly 00:04:52.479 --> 00:04:59.759 comfortable if you're very short if you're not then uh well as you can see 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:03.919 my legs are just up way too high the floor in here it's not low enough i 00:05:01.919 --> 00:05:08.639 guess that helps out with the 500 kilometers of range other than that it's 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:12.880 a pretty nice spot to be i do have to say you have heaps of climate controls 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:17.440 in here also have this weird put your jacket on and put your ipad on it type 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:21.919 thing we also have two usb type-c chargers and two cup holders 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:26.560 oh i know ski hatch 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:31.680 hopping into the driver's seat this is where the big problems start to happen 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:35.440 now first of all just opening the door it's pretty easy you push this button 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:38.560 here but your ARM's at this like weird angle so you sort of have to push the 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:42.320 button and then either sort of like force it at a weird angle with bad 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:46.720 leverage or you like press it and then push again up here it's just a bad spot 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:52.400 bmw please test these things above that we have these crystal c controls they 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:56.319 look really fancy and also uh don't do everything that you need a seat control 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:01.199 to do for that you press here and then you get your seat controls that you have 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:06.639 to use the infotainment for it had a similar thing in the volvo but this is 00:06:03.919 --> 00:06:10.240 just worst done in every single way why they are using like same icon for 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:15.280 everything in here we also have massaging functionality i can turn that 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:18.800 on it's a rather pleasant i guess i wouldn't use it too much after the 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:23.199 gimmick wore off moving on though the climate control menu makes all of the 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:27.600 sea controls just downright the most intuitive thing ever like whoever 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:33.039 decided that this is how you should have your climate control should be fired 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:37.360 like actually how is this acceptable at all this is literally the most dog 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:41.840 climate controls that's ever existed in a car ever it's so bad it's every single 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:46.319 like what do these icons mean i don't know it's overwhelming when you look at 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:50.400 it and then you can use like their little control thingy but then you have 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:55.599 to go to each one and individually select it like ah abominable on top of 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:59.680 that if you like turn on let's say your seat heating oh the icon didn't turn up 00:06:57.599 --> 00:07:04.880 great there we go your seat ventilation an icon pops up here let's go back we're 00:07:02.080 --> 00:07:08.319 doing whatever with media and crap and you want your seat ventilation turned 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:11.520 off we click this no it just takes you back to this menu instead of you know 00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:14.800 everything else you'd be able to just change it from right here it also goes 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:18.960 away i would love it if i could just press right there have my seat heater 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:22.639 turn on turn off nope they don't do it anyway the rest of the menus also 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:28.400 look at this if you need to have a search at the top 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:32.639 of your menu you have done it wrong there's so much stuff in here i don't 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:37.039 use any of it the saving grace of all this is down here they at least have 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:42.400 most of the stuff that you need easily accessible down here it's a wooden 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:47.680 touch thing it's all pretty simple to use and works pretty well we also have 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:50.319 this incredibly fancy crystal little 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:54.639 what is this m box knob i don't care the rotate feels incredibly nice the 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:58.240 detent's good but it's a little bit too loose compared to going from side to 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:03.039 side now you might think you could just ignore this knob and operate everything 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:08.080 by touch but it's all a bit of a reach and i have very long arms bmw i did a 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:12.240 whole video on all of the stuff that you've done in order to like prototype 00:08:10.080 --> 00:08:16.960 your new vehicles how did you land on this how did you test it and think huh 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:20.720 this is better it's not it's terrible it's complete garbage but anyway you'll 00:08:18.479 --> 00:08:25.199 just use Android auto it works really poorly with the little dobby thingy here 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:29.280 but whatever you'll get used to it this one feature 00:08:26.479 --> 00:08:34.719 requires my scroll of knowledge up above us we have electrochromic glass 00:08:32.880 --> 00:08:38.479 so this basically is like a sandwich structure so you have your polymer 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:42.399 dispersed liquid crystals in between two pieces of glass it acts very similar to 00:08:40.719 --> 00:08:46.800 how your tv works but instead of you know a backlight it's the sunroof in 00:08:44.640 --> 00:08:49.920 this so how it works here when it's off and no voltage is applied all of the 00:08:48.640 --> 00:08:55.040 crystals that are in your little sandwich there are orientated any which 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:59.519 way so the light comes in and it hits it and just kind of bounces off the whole 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:03.760 thing appears opaque um then once you turn it on all of the 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:08.080 liquid crystals align and the light can go right through and then your sunroof 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:12.399 is nice and transparent that's cool um it's completely a gimmick it's not very 00:09:10.160 --> 00:09:18.080 functional but science that's driving that's good at least 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:19.839 oh here we go wait nope i have to tell 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:23.040 you about our sponsor thanks to vessi footwear for sponsoring today's video 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:27.040 vessy footwear 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you can just like boom oh my god electric is just so incredible no 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:12.079 gasoline engine can do that it's just like bam 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:16.000 one thing that you should note is that you uh can't adjust where the headrest 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:19.920 is and there's a little plastic bit right here so if you have a shorter 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:24.320 passenger like my missus was maybe don't do that because their head can hit on 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:28.320 the plastic thing it hurts a lot i need my phone back 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:31.839 once you've done the launch a couple of times 00:10:29.920 --> 00:10:35.360 you're gonna get tired of that and want to go in here and now we've got personal 00:10:33.680 --> 00:10:40.240 mode here which uh you might think you could adjust uh nope efficient mode nope 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:45.519 so the only mode that you can do anything in is sport mode which means 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:49.760 that you can turn sport mode into a not quite sporty sort of comfort mode but 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:55.040 then you lose your sport mode so uh just give me an individual mode bmw why the 00:10:52.160 --> 00:10:59.200 hell is personal mode not personalizable it's so stupid anyway once you get it 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:05.600 into personal mode the whole thing softens up and the ability for this thing to just 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:07.279 eat up bumps is excellent now this also 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:10.959 means that uh even in sport mode it's not that good in the corners but just 00:11:08.959 --> 00:11:15.519 the amount of body roll that you get is a little bit excessive it really dips 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:20.000 and dives into the corners the steering also just doesn't inspire a whole lot of 00:11:18.079 --> 00:11:25.200 confidence for me for whatever reason it's good right here but in sort of like 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:29.600 the middle bit from sort of here to there there's just not a whole lot of 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:33.279 feedback and i can find that i'd sort of drift around accidentally when i don't 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:37.120 mean to i kind of wish there was a bit more centering but then again centering 00:11:35.040 --> 00:11:41.839 normally feels weird it just feels a little bit weird also one fun thing that 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:46.880 they've done is make a hexagonal steering wheel it gets kind of weird to 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:50.160 hit your turn signal because when you're on like you know the pointy bits your 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:53.200 hands a bit far away from it i don't think that drivers of this use their 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:57.200 turn signals anyway but if you are the sort of person that turns signals it's 00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:03.360 annoying to use because of this here we have the iconic sounds apparently it was 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:03.360 designed by hans zimmer and we can uh 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:09.839 yeah we'll just turn that back off i think it's dumb nitpicking aside though 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:14.079 the suspension setup in this thing is fantastic we have the adjustable dampers 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:18.399 and the air suspension package so you can't adjust the height but like this 00:12:15.839 --> 00:12:21.839 thing just eats up the road like you can go over so many bumps like this is a 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:26.399 kind of bumpy road that we're on right now couldn't tell the comfort of this 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:31.760 thing is exceptional and it does that without bouncing and having sort of 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:34.240 weird unsettling of the chassis it's 00:12:31.760 --> 00:12:38.560 really really well set up it also somehow masks the fact that this is 00:12:36.839 --> 00:12:44.480 55.000 pounds of car this thing is so heavy and 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:48.000 you don't have that like super stiffness like you have in a lot of electric cars 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:53.279 along with the excellent driving dynamics the driver assists in this are 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:55.440 just awesome i have without a doubt used 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:58.800 the lane centering in this more than any other car that i've used before the way 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:03.120 that it's able to just not only hold you in the lane but dip into corners in a 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:08.480 way that inspires confidence i have not experienced in any other vehicle the one 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:13.279 not quite as good spot is if you're coming up on a car that's stopped at a 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:17.120 light it does stop you and it stops you fairly smoothly but it does it way too 00:13:15.680 --> 00:13:21.600 late it's breaking like you know the person where like you look at their car 00:13:19.040 --> 00:13:26.160 and their front wheels are just caked in brake dust yep that's me it breaks like 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:29.360 that person like you're just coming off on there you're like are you gonna stop 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:34.560 are you gonna stop are you gonna stop okay okay we're stopping sounds like a 00:13:31.680 --> 00:13:40.639 bmw driver yep sounds like a bmw driver now one bit of a brown stain on this car 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:45.519 is the audio setup we have the base spec harman kardon stereo and it's just not 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:49.510 all that good at lower levels like we're listening to right now it's acceptable 00:13:47.839 --> 00:13:52.240 but once you push it up a little bit 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:58.399 there must be a whole bunch of distortion or something it hurts my ears 00:13:55.760 --> 00:14:02.800 even at not very loud levels it's it's just not very good the clarity is not 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:06.800 there for five thousand dollars you are able to get a bowers and wilkins upgrade 00:14:05.040 --> 00:14:11.839 and if that's anything like the system that we had in the volvo s90 get that 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:15.600 this harman kardon one is not acceptable in a car that's forty thousand dollars 00:14:13.760 --> 00:14:21.040 let alone one that's a hundred like just listen to this andy 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:23.040 it feels so dry ugh i had a similar 00:14:21.040 --> 00:14:27.279 thing where my ears would start hurting in my golf when i first got it and i was 00:14:25.040 --> 00:14:31.680 able to solve that with just heaps of dynamite not acceptable that you have to 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:36.000 dynam a car that's this expensive so the price this one right here comes 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:40.240 in at a hundred and twelve thousand dollars canadian and what do you get for 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:43.839 that you get 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:47.920 that power train that immediate torque but at the same time the suspension 00:14:45.920 --> 00:14:53.440 that's able to keep up with all of the mass the battery's at and they do add a 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:56.160 lot again 500 kilometers of range i have 00:14:53.440 --> 00:15:00.160 had no trouble at all you can go a day or two without charging it and your 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:05.839 commute's not going to be affected overall i'm kind of able to ignore how 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:08.720 just complete dog the infotainment is because you can kind of just go in 00:15:07.839 --> 00:15:14.240 there have a terrible day or two setting everything up once it's set up 00:15:11.920 --> 00:15:20.959 everything that you need is down in this area and you'll just use Android auto or 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.959 apple carplay so then should you buy one 00:15:21.199 --> 00:15:29.279 like you can jeez even if you have the money apparently at langley bmw 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:34.959 they have what 150 people in line up no 170 170 people in line up they aren't 00:15:32.880 --> 00:15:39.040 going to be taking deliveries until like 20 24 g's if you're not already on the 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:43.920 list you're so huge thanks to bmw langley for giving 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:47.519 this vehicle if you guys give us the i4 i would very much appreciate that i'll 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:52.240 be less mad about the whole infotainment thing because i've already had my rant 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:52.240 about it we'll just drive it