Re: BMW has unveiled the new - Seven - with the same huge nostrils and an updated interior.

MummyChunk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> MummyChunk <mummycullen> wrote:
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>>> The flagship will get a new multimedia screen and Panoramic iDrive  a
>>> huge display that stretches across the entire windshield from edge to
>>> edge. This interface already made its debut on the iX3, and now it has
>>> made its way to the Seven.
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>> It does look like they have finally dropped the stupid knob-that-does-it-all
>> for iDrive in favor of a touchscreen arrangement.  I am curious how that
>> works out but I cannot imagine it isn't an improvement in the UI.
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>>> The new model will be unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in April. The
>>> starting price is expected to be from $100-105 thousand (~8 million
>>> rubles) for the base version.
>>> 
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>> Everybody is announcing their new models in Beijing these days, it seems.
>> Clearly that's where the real market is.
>> --scott
>> --
>> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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> ⚡️BMW has shown the new "Seven"
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> There will be both hybrids and pure "electrics" with an acceleration to
> 100 in 3.8 seconds and a range of up to 685 km in the top version
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> All configurations include adaptive air suspension and a panoramic roof,
> and as an option, you can add a 31-inch 8K monitor in the ceiling
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> It's the dream of all guys at $101,000
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> Photos below
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We had a bmw motorcycle and a car.  My sister loved that car.  It had the
sloppiest shift.

I had a friend long time ago who I’ve lost contact with.  She was
model-level beautiful, but didn’t act like it at all. (My roommate was in
love with her, which is when she disappeared from our lives as soon as she
learned about that). Anyway, she drove an old bmw hoop-d (in which almost
nothing worked well), and one day in winter we were driving somewhere in it
and it was freezing out, so I asked if she could turn on the heat. She
replied “it’s on”.  So I stuck my hands in front of the vent, and told her
I felt no heat, nothing coming from the vents at all.  She responded “it’s
ON” and after a pause of a few seconds later, she added “It’s IMPLIED
heat”.  Still to this day one of my favorite/funniest things I’ve ever
heard anyone say, I still remember it more than 30 years later.