a couple years ago bmw was just so far ahead of everyone in electrification and
then they sort of fell behind until now today we have the bmw ix and this thing
is well the power train's really good at least i wish i could say the rest is
freaking sweet let's have a look
why are you so loud the looks are
a bit on the questionable side in black i think it looks pretty good any other
color and it's just absolutely terrible like here it all looks great and like a
white one though like this remains black that remains black down here remains
black just get the black one we also have the kidneys here i kind of think it
looks like someone's butt cheeks put up against a pane of glass to each their
own i guess anyway if you look really closely there's some radar sensors that
are integrated in here and it's pretty cool we also have a bmw logo and if you
push on it that's where your windshield washer fluid goes
nice although some of the design language and
body lines might be a little bit on the questionable side as far as design goes
at least there's good engineering reason for it the coefficient of drag of this
thing is 0.25 which is freaking
incredible for reference the x6 is 0.34
that's just so much highway efficiency that they've gained here it's amazing
how they've done that one more thing though the hood inside there's no
obvious latch or anything so i looked in the owner's manual and it just says only
openable by bmw servicemen uh we're gonna see about that one second
i haven't actually done this yet but apparently there's two little things that you can pull on each side to unlock
it oh no that's the whole panel that's coming off i don't want to do that or do
i uh let's look on the other side i guess
oh there's one okay
oh oh heck yeah
i'm half curious if they did this just so they didn't have to you know install
anything to hold your hood up and the instructions that i saw they recommend
just putting an allen key through this hole right here not a good start from a
right to repair standpoint it's bad bmw wow this thing's making some load of a
racket for a car that's turned off i'm guessing that it's the heat pump so i've
got this absolutely massive intercooler here and it seems like that there's a
pump that's right there that has to be the heat pump that's keeping everything
cool air conditioning whatnot another reason they might not want you looking
under here is look at the snake age they couldn't make this any nicer like this
piece right here though that is some solid reinforcement i guess that's the
crash structure probably a real safe one so it's real heavy i need to stop doing
that along the side first of all we have this gold trim which i think looks pretty
good with the black as long as you're into fancy stuff more interestingly
though the whole width of the top half of the car reduces as it goes along the
length this also helps you get that super low drag coefficient and also is
very effective and having almost zero rear visibility around the back the way
that they've done the diffusion in these leds just looks so sick excellent job
bmw as for the rest it's pretty good but
again it looks way better with the black paint compared to any other color for
the trunk it opens up pretty normally and you can just stop it wherever
there's no sensors for the height and if you go to set it here you can go like
that and i bonked it off the ceiling of
my car park as you can see the high points right on the bmw logo i'm sorry
langley bmw you are able to set the height that the liftgate opens to in the
menu but it's a lot less intuitive than just holding this for a couple seconds
anyway the trunk itself is pretty good the underfloor has heaps of room for all
of your random crap that you have to keep in your car the actual trunk is
nice and big and you have these buttons right here so you can put your seats down
it works really fast what you can also see back here is just the massive amount
of carbon fiber you can see it alongside the doors as well there's a whole carbon
fiber roll hoop in this thing which will be great if you flip it and also helps
explain why it's so freaking expensive along this side we have our charging
ports ac dc it's good for 200 kilowatts
of fast charging that gets you from i think it's 20 to 80 in 30 minutes pretty
good not as good as you know lots of other cars to open the doors you have to
do kind of a up and in sort of thing pretty easy from the outside actually
and in the back there's another little switch here that puts your seats down
awesome that's easy for both sides the rear seats are incredibly
comfortable if you're very short if you're not then uh well as you can see
my legs are just up way too high the floor in here it's not low enough i
guess that helps out with the 500 kilometers of range other than that it's
a pretty nice spot to be i do have to say you have heaps of climate controls
in here also have this weird put your jacket on and put your ipad on it type
thing we also have two usb type-c chargers and two cup holders
oh i know ski hatch
hopping into the driver's seat this is where the big problems start to happen
now first of all just opening the door it's pretty easy you push this button
here but your ARM's at this like weird angle so you sort of have to push the
button and then either sort of like force it at a weird angle with bad
leverage or you like press it and then push again up here it's just a bad spot
bmw please test these things above that we have these crystal c controls they
look really fancy and also uh don't do everything that you need a seat control
to do for that you press here and then you get your seat controls that you have
to use the infotainment for it had a similar thing in the volvo but this is
just worst done in every single way why they are using like same icon for
everything in here we also have massaging functionality i can turn that
on it's a rather pleasant i guess i wouldn't use it too much after the
gimmick wore off moving on though the climate control menu makes all of the
sea controls just downright the most intuitive thing ever like whoever
decided that this is how you should have your climate control should be fired
like actually how is this acceptable at all this is literally the most dog
climate controls that's ever existed in a car ever it's so bad it's every single
like what do these icons mean i don't know it's overwhelming when you look at
it and then you can use like their little control thingy but then you have
to go to each one and individually select it like ah abominable on top of
that if you like turn on let's say your seat heating oh the icon didn't turn up
great there we go your seat ventilation an icon pops up here let's go back we're
doing whatever with media and crap and you want your seat ventilation turned
off we click this no it just takes you back to this menu instead of you know
everything else you'd be able to just change it from right here it also goes
away i would love it if i could just press right there have my seat heater
turn on turn off nope they don't do it anyway the rest of the menus also
look at this if you need to have a search at the top
of your menu you have done it wrong there's so much stuff in here i don't
use any of it the saving grace of all this is down here they at least have
most of the stuff that you need easily accessible down here it's a wooden
touch thing it's all pretty simple to use and works pretty well we also have
this incredibly fancy crystal little
what is this m box knob i don't care the rotate feels incredibly nice the
detent's good but it's a little bit too loose compared to going from side to
side now you might think you could just ignore this knob and operate everything
by touch but it's all a bit of a reach and i have very long arms bmw i did a
whole video on all of the stuff that you've done in order to like prototype
your new vehicles how did you land on this how did you test it and think huh
this is better it's not it's terrible it's complete garbage but anyway you'll
just use Android auto it works really poorly with the little dobby thingy here
but whatever you'll get used to it this one feature
requires my scroll of knowledge up above us we have electrochromic glass
so this basically is like a sandwich structure so you have your polymer
dispersed liquid crystals in between two pieces of glass it acts very similar to
how your tv works but instead of you know a backlight it's the sunroof in
this so how it works here when it's off and no voltage is applied all of the
crystals that are in your little sandwich there are orientated any which
way so the light comes in and it hits it and just kind of bounces off the whole
thing appears opaque um then once you turn it on all of the
liquid crystals align and the light can go right through and then your sunroof
is nice and transparent that's cool um it's completely a gimmick it's not very
functional but science that's driving that's good at least
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circuit oh holy crap she's fast
real fast one here 523 horsepower 560
some foot pounds of torque there's a lot of torque here like if you're just going
along you know you can just like boom oh my god electric is just so incredible no
gasoline engine can do that it's just like bam
one thing that you should note is that you uh can't adjust where the headrest
is and there's a little plastic bit right here so if you have a shorter
passenger like my missus was maybe don't do that because their head can hit on
the plastic thing it hurts a lot i need my phone back
once you've done the launch a couple of times
you're gonna get tired of that and want to go in here and now we've got personal
mode here which uh you might think you could adjust uh nope efficient mode nope
so the only mode that you can do anything in is sport mode which means
that you can turn sport mode into a not quite sporty sort of comfort mode but
then you lose your sport mode so uh just give me an individual mode bmw why the
hell is personal mode not personalizable it's so stupid anyway once you get it
into personal mode the whole thing softens up and the ability for this thing to just
eat up bumps is excellent now this also
means that uh even in sport mode it's not that good in the corners but just
the amount of body roll that you get is a little bit excessive it really dips
and dives into the corners the steering also just doesn't inspire a whole lot of
confidence for me for whatever reason it's good right here but in sort of like
the middle bit from sort of here to there there's just not a whole lot of
feedback and i can find that i'd sort of drift around accidentally when i don't
mean to i kind of wish there was a bit more centering but then again centering
normally feels weird it just feels a little bit weird also one fun thing that
they've done is make a hexagonal steering wheel it gets kind of weird to
hit your turn signal because when you're on like you know the pointy bits your
hands a bit far away from it i don't think that drivers of this use their
turn signals anyway but if you are the sort of person that turns signals it's
annoying to use because of this here we have the iconic sounds apparently it was
designed by hans zimmer and we can uh
yeah we'll just turn that back off i think it's dumb nitpicking aside though
the suspension setup in this thing is fantastic we have the adjustable dampers
and the air suspension package so you can't adjust the height but like this
thing just eats up the road like you can go over so many bumps like this is a
kind of bumpy road that we're on right now couldn't tell the comfort of this
thing is exceptional and it does that without bouncing and having sort of
weird unsettling of the chassis it's
really really well set up it also somehow masks the fact that this is
55.000 pounds of car this thing is so heavy and
you don't have that like super stiffness like you have in a lot of electric cars
along with the excellent driving dynamics the driver assists in this are
just awesome i have without a doubt used
the lane centering in this more than any other car that i've used before the way
that it's able to just not only hold you in the lane but dip into corners in a
way that inspires confidence i have not experienced in any other vehicle the one
not quite as good spot is if you're coming up on a car that's stopped at a
light it does stop you and it stops you fairly smoothly but it does it way too
late it's breaking like you know the person where like you look at their car
and their front wheels are just caked in brake dust yep that's me it breaks like
that person like you're just coming off on there you're like are you gonna stop
are you gonna stop are you gonna stop okay okay we're stopping sounds like a
bmw driver yep sounds like a bmw driver now one bit of a brown stain on this car
is the audio setup we have the base spec harman kardon stereo and it's just not
all that good at lower levels like we're listening to right now it's acceptable
but once you push it up a little bit
there must be a whole bunch of distortion or something it hurts my ears
even at not very loud levels it's it's just not very good the clarity is not
there for five thousand dollars you are able to get a bowers and wilkins upgrade
and if that's anything like the system that we had in the volvo s90 get that
this harman kardon one is not acceptable in a car that's forty thousand dollars
let alone one that's a hundred like just listen to this andy
it feels so dry ugh i had a similar
thing where my ears would start hurting in my golf when i first got it and i was
able to solve that with just heaps of dynamite not acceptable that you have to
dynam a car that's this expensive so the price this one right here comes
in at a hundred and twelve thousand dollars canadian and what do you get for
that you get
that power train that immediate torque but at the same time the suspension
that's able to keep up with all of the mass the battery's at and they do add a
lot again 500 kilometers of range i have
had no trouble at all you can go a day or two without charging it and your
commute's not going to be affected overall i'm kind of able to ignore how
just complete dog the infotainment is because you can kind of just go in
there have a terrible day or two setting everything up once it's set up
everything that you need is down in this area and you'll just use Android auto or
apple carplay so then should you buy one
like you can jeez even if you have the money apparently at langley bmw
they have what 150 people in line up no 170 170 people in line up they aren't
going to be taking deliveries until like 20 24 g's if you're not already on the
list you're so huge thanks to bmw langley for giving
this vehicle if you guys give us the i4 i would very much appreciate that i'll
be less mad about the whole infotainment thing because i've already had my rant
about it we'll just drive it