Having Daily Driven the new BMW 3 Series 320i for a Week we were well placed to provide a Review of Living with the New BMW 3 Series as a Daily Driver. There's good...and there's bad! We are interested in your thoughts...Would you buy a BMW 3 Series as a daily driver and if not...why not?
Love the rant on touch screen, I am forever questioning how they can be safe. I can adjust everything in my car without my eyes leaving the road. I try the same in my wife’s, with her touch screen, and I can’t even change the temp without nearly crashing! 😅 Great vid 👍
Yes talk to BMW they want you to sue voice control for everything. Having tried BMW voice control, I have as fairly neutral BBC-ish accent, it cant understand me ever so does nothing, therefore useless.......... Don't get me on the safety aids, BMW had to turn them off on my car to prevent it form trying to kill me.... The one good bit, emergency brake assist turns off if its sunny or hot or cold or wet or raining..... i.e. when you need it.....
@@RichReviews_ agree - lane assist kept trying to turn me into barriers and other cars, particularly when dark and wet and were not talking a gentle nudge here it was a fight t he steering wheel type of correction and I am fairly strong . Much weaker it would have been a nasty accident on several occasion - took it back to BMW several times to try and get this corrected. Also had a cascade failure - 70mph on the A12 screen goes blank and the drive by wire stops working - so not throttle, brakes or steering for several seconds at 70mph, thankfully early Sunday am and on a slight bank so the car followed the road until the software rebooted . There was little traffic and everyone worked around me seeing there was a problem - a busier time would have been an almighty smash BMW investigated but couldn't replicate it - there solution was to turn almost all the safety aids off permanently - I just have the low speed emergency brake assist (parking) and the blind spot indicator on - Both pretty good actually, the blind spot indicator particularly so as they have made the cars so wide now you cant glance from side mirror to side mirror while looking straight ahead. You have to turn your head away from looking forward to see the side view mirrors So beyond annoying to being and actually dangerous -- not just BMW, talking to friends with new cars from Ford, Jaguar and others each of them have had moments when the driver assist goes nuts and either tried to crash them or carried out very dangerous acts - like full emergency breaking on a curve with no vehicles in front but vehicles behind....... So basically manufacturers being forced to introduce underdeveloped solutions to meet a legal mandate. Were basically running in prototypes so they can properly develop the solutions. Having worked in the software industry the problem will be not the occasional incident now - its that not being able to regularly repeat the problem they will keep the software unfixed and build on it - each new layer of software introduces more events where this can happen increases the likelihood. The chance of it occurring becoming greater in a wider variety of conditions and so on So over several generations of development you have a potential time bomb where there is a significant chance of multiple vehicles having full cascade failures under a wide range of conditions So were back to a scenario like the introduction of Jet aircraft int he 1940's/1950's where lots of people died while they found out what they got wrong......
Like BMW is the only car on the road with a touch screen... maybe figure out how to use the functionalities before you set of on a test review rant. The car also has perfectly capable voice commands that can do almost everything you complain about by speaking to it! ... Welcome to 2025 , a quarter of this century has gone by while some people still live under a rock
Oh my god who is this guy he’s the boring one set out from the start to slag the car off The 3 series Bmw is the best saloon on the market the interior is the best, i drive 35k miles a year in a 3 series msport its a pleasure to drive, all cars are plastic interiors now to save weight what does he want heavy metal you don’t have to use the touch screen use the eye drive button the most annoying person and video i had to switch off only one week in the car not qualified at all i could do a far better review
Yet you were compelled to write an essay?! We feel that plastic is not luxury build quality especially for the interior of a £40k+ mileage cruncher and touchscreens are a severe safety hazard.
Having Daily Driven the new BMW 3 Series 320i for a Week we were well placed to provide a Review of Living with the New BMW 3 Series as a Daily Driver.
There's good...and there's bad!
We are interested in your thoughts...Would you buy a BMW 3 Series as a daily driver and if not...why not?
Love the rant on touch screen, I am forever questioning how they can be safe.
I can adjust everything in my car without my eyes leaving the road. I try the same in my wife’s, with her touch screen, and I can’t even change the temp without nearly crashing! 😅
Great vid 👍
Thank you, yes they are a royal PITA and should have key functionality out back on easily assessable buttons.
Yes talk to BMW they want you to sue voice control for everything. Having tried BMW voice control, I have as fairly neutral BBC-ish accent, it cant understand me ever so does nothing, therefore useless..........
Don't get me on the safety aids, BMW had to turn them off on my car to prevent it form trying to kill me....
The one good bit, emergency brake assist turns off if its sunny or hot or cold or wet or raining..... i.e. when you need it.....
Bizarre! We found the safety aids at best to be super annoying and worst verging on dangerous.
@@RichReviews_ agree - lane assist kept trying to turn me into barriers and other cars, particularly when dark and wet and were not talking a gentle nudge here it was a fight t he steering wheel type of correction and I am fairly strong . Much weaker it would have been a nasty accident on several occasion - took it back to BMW several times to try and get this corrected.
Also had a cascade failure - 70mph on the A12 screen goes blank and the drive by wire stops working - so not throttle, brakes or steering for several seconds at 70mph, thankfully early Sunday am and on a slight bank so the car followed the road until the software rebooted . There was little traffic and everyone worked around me seeing there was a problem - a busier time would have been an almighty smash
BMW investigated but couldn't replicate it - there solution was to turn almost all the safety aids off permanently - I just have the low speed emergency brake assist (parking) and the blind spot indicator on - Both pretty good actually, the blind spot indicator particularly so as they have made the cars so wide now you cant glance from side mirror to side mirror while looking straight ahead. You have to turn your head away from looking forward to see the side view mirrors
So beyond annoying to being and actually dangerous -- not just BMW, talking to friends with new cars from Ford, Jaguar and others each of them have had moments when the driver assist goes nuts and either tried to crash them or carried out very dangerous acts - like full emergency breaking on a curve with no vehicles in front but vehicles behind.......
So basically manufacturers being forced to introduce underdeveloped solutions to meet a legal mandate.
Were basically running in prototypes so they can properly develop the solutions.
Having worked in the software industry the problem will be not the occasional incident now - its that not being able to regularly repeat the problem they will keep the software unfixed and build on it - each new layer of software introduces more events where this can happen increases the likelihood. The chance of it occurring becoming greater in a wider variety of conditions and so on
So over several generations of development you have a potential time bomb where there is a significant chance of multiple vehicles having full cascade failures under a wide range of conditions
So were back to a scenario like the introduction of Jet aircraft int he 1940's/1950's where lots of people died while they found out what they got wrong......
nice vídeo
Thank you.
It was only a few years ago a premium car was £45k, now you just get cheap plastic - £50k 4 years ago got you an basic M3/M4..........
All I see is him complaining and not doing an honest review rather just ranting.
Like BMW is the only car on the road with a touch screen... maybe figure out how to use the functionalities before you set of on a test review rant. The car also has perfectly capable voice commands that can do almost everything you complain about by speaking to it! ... Welcome to 2025 , a quarter of this century has gone by while some people still live under a rock
Huh?, sounds like you didn’t watch the video properly.
My G20 2019 320D is better made than the newer ones and doesn't have that god awful ipad screen with no physical buttons.
Oh my god who is this guy he’s the boring one set out from the start to slag the car off The 3 series Bmw is the best saloon on the market the interior is the best, i drive 35k miles a year in a 3 series msport its a pleasure to drive, all cars are plastic interiors now to save weight what does he want heavy metal you don’t have to use the touch screen use the eye drive button the most annoying person and video i had to switch off only one week in the car not qualified at all i could do a far better review
Yet you were compelled to write an essay?!
We feel that plastic is not luxury build quality especially for the interior of a £40k+ mileage cruncher and touchscreens are a severe safety hazard.