We stick to the facts with four meters 95 lengths, one meter 97 widths and a height of one meter 70 the ix is a little longer but narrower than a BMW x5 what bothers me right away when operating while driving is that there is no air conditioning control unit, neither buttons nor touch things, nothing at all that disappears completely in the infotainment system, after all, you have the temperature display in any view, regardless of which menu you are always down and can regulate quickly and easily with plus / minus The rest of the controls are hidden here in such a huge view where I definitely have to look to activate the seat heating to adjust the ventilation manually that I find absolutely no gain in comfort and whether this would have been so bothered here I don't know it is also augmented with BMW reality now arrived in the navigation e.g. here now I am standing at the intersection want to turn left there we show three arrows in the camera image that leads out to the front right here please turn clearly you ask yourself what you need it for but I think, for example, if you have several streets in a row can help to see where you really have to turn in the end as I said, BMW is introducing a lot of new things with the ix.
There are still direct selection buttons like in other BMWs, but it is also that its wooden panel here so you no longer have individual buttons but that there is a complete panel with different functions on it there is still the rotary push button the drive controller there you can Hold on to it while driving, and here with the controller, whiz through the menu well because you do not have to operate via touch while driving, which I always find distracting the multimedia and information system no longer consists of a digital cockpit and an infotainment touchscreen in detail, but it is a battle display a unit still two screens but they merge into a panel here in front because you have a 12.3-inch system for the bike where it reads information and the speed etc in a classic way and a 14.9-inch infotainment touchscreen which is so good at first glance does that BMW operating system 8 find a train with the ix and I have to say that I still needed some getting used to, for example, this is here.
This came button disappeared that I always liked to use to quickly get information about the car it is gone it is now hidden in a relatively extensive menu with a lot of relatively small tiles when I first looked at the steering wheel I thought oh no please don't touch stories here because it looks like this at first glance, but there are actually still buttons that you can use to change the layout here in the driver information display, for example, the space available for the GX, too, had a wheelbase of 3 meters outperformed the x5 and then by a full 25 millimeters which of course is not much, but the first space offered here is outstandingly good to put in perspective the seat is set to my 183 / 184 and even I can push my long stilts so far under the seat in front that I have very had good leg support and my thighs don't hang in the air, so I think that traveling here is really very.
The test car xx costs 128 1500 euros 350 is fitted with air suspension as standard on both axles with adaptive dampers and it does its job really very well here are tons of bullie blankets and here one more side of a bomb the vehicle is right back in peace the comfort is really very, very nice, which is also part of the comfort that is the steering and that feels a bit bmw atypical andy is very smooth, not indirect so it happens relatively quickly what but it is already very smooth but I think that with such a vehicle it costs absolutely also in the technology flagship automated driving to level 2700 euro surcharge in the medium term, the ix level 3 should master the interaction between lane-keeping assistant and adaptive cruise control works well in my eyes you don't feel patronized by this sports assistant because it is really wildly regulated that it is not so annoying that you are the same every time would like to exhibit I also like that too The interaction with the adaptive recuperation also works very well in my eyes here.
For example, a place-name sign he is now very nimble in entering the recuperation now again releases where the speed is reached also sails where the energy that has already been built up can be used so I think the system is good matched instead of electric motors excited by permanent magnets, bmw uses two current-reported synchronous machines no this means that the use of rare earth can be dispensed within the manufacture of the rotor the main decompose the driving experience switch you press the middle here and you can no longer register a driving mode directly but have to Activate the sport mode here by touch.
For example, to try out the 523 system ps and 765-newton meters of torque, let's just go for it and get 100 that's treating how this thing pushes I find that always fascinating with electric cars so I have great fun bmw installed in the ix as a 50 version a battery with a net energy content of 105.2-kilowatt-hours are used up then you can simply recharge with alternating current with 74 kilowatts or three-phase with eleven kilowatts what I was surprised about is that there is, unfortunately, no 22 kilowatts onboard it should come when you get such a car but to the technology flagship, first of all, I should be in it immediately and if it comes then not optional so it will be optional I find that a bit unworthy of the concept of a technology flagship if you charge even faster then, of course, you want to do it with direct current at the fast charging station on the autobahn, for example with around 200 kilowatts, and to put that into perspective, you get around 35 minutes of energy for 10 to 80 percent back into the battery in the basic ix for at least 77 1300 euros.
omes with 71-kilowatt hours net and charges with a maximum of 150 kilowatts 200 km h ix 50 still feels good and very comfortable is really fun but then it’s also the end of work and I’ve already driven quite a bit, I have to say and my average consumption is 21 3 kilowatt hours according to bmw it should be between 18 and 23-kilowatt hours like LCP and then you should travel between 550 and 600 30 kilometers at the moment I have driven 115 km and still have a range of 386 so I think of You really don't have to worry about the range of the car.
Ven if you let it fly a bit and drive quickly on the motorway after a long period of full load the consumption increases to a good 23-kilowatt hour the ix is super comfortable technically up to date has well-coordinated assistance systems he has a trip daily range is what he uses, he can basically charge very quickly but there we come to the point where I find it lags a bit behind its status as an innovator why there is no 22-kilowatt onboard charger and if it is available soon why it is not standard I do not understand that in addition, in my eyes, for example, the lack of franking will bring the advantages the new platform has not been used to the full, but I'm still curious where the journey at bmw will lead and I can already imagine long battery-electric travel with a car.
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