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Originally Posted by JST
I was thinking about this a lot this weekend--I drove the Tesla to Charlottesville after a week or so of driving the BMW every day.
Yes, the lack of gauges in front of the driver is goofy, but you very quickly get used to it--and reading the speed in the Tesla is actually easier than in the BMW, with its goofy 200 mph speedometer and attendant small-as-hell increment marks. And really for the Tesla you don't need a lot of gauges. There's no tach, eg, or water temp or whatever. Battery SOC could be more prominent, but that's about it.
Physical buttons are nice, especially in the winter. And the BMW has a nice row of physical buttons for the media/radio. But there aren't enough of them to store all the good stations, so then you have to dive into iDrive. And let me tell you, iDrive still sucks balls. It's way better than it used to be, but it's far harder to use to do simple tasks than the Tesla.
One HUGE thing--entering nav addresses. In the Tesla, it's easy as hell. The BMW is...not. Fortunately, BMW has a nice linked application that lets you look up the address on your phone and send it to the car, which works pretty well. But just using the iDrive controller to enter an address guarantees you'll pretty much never use the nav.
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I keep forgetting you have a BMW. To the point that I have forgotten which BMW you have. Presumably something much more modern than an E46.
And yeah, BMW interiors have gotten worse (again IMO) since the E46.
Um. "stations?" Like as in the radio? I haven't used the radio in any of our cars in ... three years, I'm guessing? I just stream everything through my phone at this point.
I also never use in-car nav. The CX-5 and the Ram both have it (though admittedly it's terrible in both) but Google Maps through my phone is just better in every way than either of the built-in systems.