CAR magazine UK drives BMW's iX electric SUV with pictures, specs and verdict
► Lux interior, loads of clever tech, 380-mile rangein 2023 – but it’s not the most obvious choice. Say one thing for the way the BMW iX looks – say it’s distinctive. Whatever you think of that nose, or that rear overhang, you aren’t going to mistake it for any other car. Which is good news, we reckon, because BMW has certainly put some effort into engineering its first bespoke-platform EV since the i3.
The recessed door handles look like horrible dirt traps; open the car – for which you need only your phone, rather than anything as old-fashioned as a key – and you’ll see the bare carbonfibre reinforced plastic that makes up the bodysides. If you’re at all interested in machines, the iX has a distinct air of intrigue.General consensus suggests the inside is more universally successful, although also far from ordinary.
The BMW voice assistant is supposedly smarter, too. But we found it slow to respond and quickly stopped bothering to try – using the iDrive wheel or even tapping the screen didn’t really make many functions that more difficult anyway. You’ll notice this the first time you find yourself hurtling towards the speed restriction at the start of a village, doing about a million mile an hour in near-total silence. Try that trick in an M4 and locals will be dislocating their eyeballs; in the iX no-one even glances up .
The brakes are fascinating, however. The iX debuts BMW’s new Integrated Brake technology, which as with many other areas of the car, takes a bunch of traditional components and compresses them into a single unit. The brake pedal only makes a physical link to the friction brakes in a system failure situation; up until that point, the Integrated Brake manages slowing the car via the motors and/or friction.
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