Choleric

Hey hey hey, the midwest ain't so bad, yes the majority of vehicles on the road will be trucks or SUVs, but you cant expect much less from the Grain belt. There is still more than numerous cars around and plenty of german ones as well.

I'd much rather live in the midwest than any coastal cities.

Centurion

The iDrive hate is simply explained by the fact that a huge majority of people hate having to go though menus just to change a access a certain function in a car. Not only is it irritating but it also distracts you from driving. That is the reason why the new MB cars like the C-class have a 90s center console with lots of buttons makes just about any function accessible without one having to waste time going though menus.

Tycoon

Once you set the functions as you want, next time they're on with just one press on the button. If that's hard and irritating for those journalists, then they should f away from the car!!!

Choleric

Want a tissue sasa?

j/k

Tycoon

I'm not whining... I'm just sick of those stupid complaints!

Merc1

I think part of the whole idrive thing is that BMW loving magazines really want BMWs to be perfect and idrive keeps them from being so. BMWs like the previous 5-Series for example were about as pure a driving machine as you can get, pure and simple. Anything that doesn't strike them as being easy to use is going to get hammered. I don't like Idrive either, but then again I've never been in idrive equipped BMW long enough to really form more than a fleeting opinion about it so... What gets me is those seat controls in the 7-Series, just plain complication for the sake of doing so. Few things have struck me as being more ridiculous. There was clearly nothing wrong with the old way and the way everyone else does seat adjusters, but that wouldn't have fit in with the whole new interior design motif I guess.

M

Tycoon

Yes, you do have a point, Marcus.

Brendan Moore

Nothing against the Midwest. Nothing against Texas. I've lived all over the U.S. and every place has it's charms. I lived in St. Louis and I liked it. I lived in TX, too, and my wife is from there. I liked it there. Just pointing out there are a lot more trucks there in those two regions then in CA. I don't belong to the "CA is better than everywhere else" crowd out here, I guess because I'm not from here, or for that matter, anywhere in particular. I'm kind of a mutt. So, I don't hate the Midwest, and in fact, I kind of like it. But. . . lots of trucks there.