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I drive version.??
- Thread starter BigDave
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Pretty sure all G29s are running iDrive 7; the easiest way to tell visually (apart from the overall 'look') is to check the home screen. If the tiles are different sizes and there's a column of icons down the left-hand side (for media/comms/nav etc), that's iDrive 7. iDrive 5/6 had no icons on the left, just a horizontal row of tiles which were all the same size.
The very latest models such as the iX, i4 and new 2AT are running iDrive 8 instead; the big giveaways there seem to be that the instrument cluster and centre screen look like they're combined into one surface, and the aircon controls have been moved onto the touchscreen instead of having dedicated buttons. A big change like that probably wouldn't happen for the G29 except maybe as part of the LCI, but even that seems pretty unlikely for a small-volume car like the Z4.
The very latest models such as the iX, i4 and new 2AT are running iDrive 8 instead; the big giveaways there seem to be that the instrument cluster and centre screen look like they're combined into one surface, and the aircon controls have been moved onto the touchscreen instead of having dedicated buttons. A big change like that probably wouldn't happen for the G29 except maybe as part of the LCI, but even that seems pretty unlikely for a small-volume car like the Z4.
Yeah, I suspect the deciding factor is "can we just plonk new software on the same parts and call it good?".
I was originally going to suggest that any given model is pretty much stuck on whatever was current when it was designed, except I know the F22/F23 got updated from 5 to 6 at some point (my pre-LCI F22 was running 5, the late-production F22/F23s I had as courtesies/testers were on 6). That felt mostly like a light UI update to the software with no hardware changes - main difference was the introduction of live data on the home screen instead of static graphics - whereas upgrading the G29 from 7 to 8 would seem to involve redesigning the dashboard and some of the centre console. Can't see that happening in a hurry!
I was originally going to suggest that any given model is pretty much stuck on whatever was current when it was designed, except I know the F22/F23 got updated from 5 to 6 at some point (my pre-LCI F22 was running 5, the late-production F22/F23s I had as courtesies/testers were on 6). That felt mostly like a light UI update to the software with no hardware changes - main difference was the introduction of live data on the home screen instead of static graphics - whereas upgrading the G29 from 7 to 8 would seem to involve redesigning the dashboard and some of the centre console. Can't see that happening in a hurry!