ronk said:Just give me all the toys and gismos!
If I’d wanted old fashioned motoring I would have bought a Morgan - I did try but didn’t like
Marcoose said:Since we're talking iDrive, isn't iDrive more than just SatNav ?
N4LLY said:Silverstar said:N4LLY said:I do not use sat nav and do not like the intrusive/ distractions :wink:
A Tesla for example is my ultimate nightmare having travelled a couple hundred miles
in a friends one and nearly threw up as it made me so dizzy with images of cars, vans and traffic cones passing by. :?
You know if you prefer you can just drive with the idrive screen folded.
Yes i know :roll: Loss of storage space, where to put parking tickets :rofl: My jacket sleeve hits the traction control button as it is :wink:
I've driven from Geneva to Lisbon, and from Chicago to San Francisco without GPS, SatNav, or mobile phone. Sure, it's handy. But not a must for me. But I'm an old bean. Same for another dozen gizmos on 'modern' cars.Silverstar said:Marcoose said:Since we're talking iDrive, isn't iDrive more than just SatNav ?
Yes it is, a whole lot more. Much easier to see the car data / info and functions on the iDrive than it is in the dash or the tiny radio display plus don't forget the very useful pictogram for the parking sensors. The built in maps is pretty good too (I used it to go from London to Malaga, Spain via France and it performed faultlessly) and useful in those areas where your phone has no signal or the battery has died and you need to find your way somewhere.
Pah! Bloody amateur! I used to have to find addresses in Central/ West End of London before Sat Nav was invented. Two 'London A-Z' books on the passenger seat (one bigger scale than the other). After a few years I reckon I could have qualified as a London Cabbie!Marcoose said:I've driven from Geneva to Lisbon, and from Chicago to San Francisco without GPS, SatNav, or mobile phone.
Pondrew said:Pah! Bloody amateur! I used to have to find addresses in Central/ West End of London before Sat Nav was invented. Two 'London A-Z' books on the passenger seat (one bigger scale than the other). After a few years I reckon I could have qualified as a London Cabbie!Marcoose said:I've driven from Geneva to Lisbon, and from Chicago to San Francisco without GPS, SatNav, or mobile phone.
Pondrew said:One thing the Z4 never had (don't know about the G29 TBH) which is really useful is Blind Spot Monitoring in the mirrors. Had it on a few cars and it is really good!![]()
Pondrew said:Pah! Bloody amateur! I used to have to find addresses in Central/ West End of London before Sat Nav was invented. Two 'London A-Z' books on the passenger seat (one bigger scale than the other). After a few years I reckon I could have qualified as a London Cabbie!Marcoose said:I've driven from Geneva to Lisbon, and from Chicago to San Francisco without GPS, SatNav, or mobile phone.
Marcoose said:I still tape directions to the tank of the motorbike. It's weird that I always end up at one of my ex-girlfriends' homes, but that's another story. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
This big hunka luv ? Oh yeah !Silverstar said:Marcoose said:I still tape directions to the tank of the motorbike. It's weird that I always end up at one of my ex-girlfriends' homes, but that's another story. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Are they pleased to see you? :rofl:
AnubisZed said:Back in my day we used to use a huge A3 sized map book to go everywhere. And when you got to the bottom of one page you then had to go search pages ahead to find the next section, and even then it didn't just line up so you had to work out which road was bloody which.
You youngsters with your spacestation mapping and interwebs thingamajig don't know the struggle we had getting from A to B, mostly via F as we used to get lost so much!!