BMW iX AWD driving REVIEW with German Autobahn, winter range and fast charging test! xDrive50
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- This is our in-depth review of the BMW iX (EV SUV) xDrive 50 (AWD). We're taking a look at Exterior, Interior and the driving experience as well as the winter range, German Autobahn driving and a DC fast charging test cool battery vs pre-heated battery 10-80 % SoC.
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00:00 BMW iX xDrive50 AWD German test!
00:19 BMW Double Kidney or Mono-Kidney?
00:42 Plastic 3D number plates
00:54 LED lamps or Laser Light
01:07 Camera cleaning front and rear
01:17 No frunk!
01:23 Length, wheels and suspension
02:05 Rear-axle steering and battery kWh
02:15 Rear design
02:28 Colors: Mineral White and Phytonic Blue
02:33 Sophisto Grey and Storm Bay Metallic
02:50 Winter freezing temperatures real-world range test
03:41 Summer consumption and EV range
04:02 DC fast charging test cold vs pre-heated battery!
04:21 recharging at low temperatures 10-80 % SoC
06:00 Pre-heated battery 10-80 % SoC!
07:32 Interior overview
08:24 User interface
08:52 Ambient lighting
09:01 Seats with material choices (Sensatec available)
09:18 Seating position
10:02 Inductive charging pad with cooling
10:19 Lower middle console
11:00 My Modes driving modes selection
11:25 D-mode vs B-mode one-pedal driving
12:07 Sound system test Bowers & Wilkins 4D
12:50 BMW OS8 - is it really good?
13:55 Switching BMW iconic sounds off
15:14 Apple Maps projection in instrument cluster
15:37 Storage spaces
15:47 Electrochromatic shade
15:54 Rear seating
17:15 Trunk / boot
18:17 Driving BMW iX AWD Autobahn acceleration
21:55 Air suspension and rear-axle steering
24:21 Assistance systems
25:02 High speed motorway 200 km/h 125 mph max.
26:23 Countryside driving
28:03 BMW iX3 vs BMW iX
31:50 BMW iX vs Mercedes EQS
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I like Thomas being more relaxed with giving his very own opinion, criticising, and trolling! 😁
It’s much more fun watching his reviews when he’s this way.
Keep it going Thomas, you’re definitively one of the best car reviewers on TH-cam. 💪
Highly appreciated!!
Test drive the ix50 a couple weeks ago and it was the best driving experience I’ve ever had
LOL - try Taycan
@@Andy-kp6mi LOL at about twice the price
Thomas, I am in awe of your self control, I would have 'lost it' with that voice control system. Thank you for another insightful, warts and all, honest vehicle test - keep them coming 👍😊
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Thank you Thomas for your comments regarding the "Changes to the worse". Really appreciate that!
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Exactly what I thought when he was browsing through the settings buttons. This is pre-iPhone era level of UX…
“May I borrow your hairdryer?”
“Why?”
“My grille got scratched.”
ahahaha
Lovely looking car and an amazing machine
Thats what we all have been waiting for, a BMW that looks like a Berlingo! 👍
I think I am the only one who likes design of this bmw. I bet in real life looks better. No chance I could afford it but...I like it
A good user interface should make the driving experience better, not worse. Why, BMW? Thomas, I feel your pain! And as always, thank you for your honest opinion.
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True, however once you personalize functions (ie, it can automatically set temp, turn on seat vent or heat at designated outside temps). I have the previous OS and I barely adjust anything except the music and maps. So for me it does make the driving experience better. Also, you can change the assistants activate/wake up from word the standard "hey BMW".
Thomas is better looking than that BMW, that’s for sure!
So was the Elephant Man
He is better looking than every car he reviews.
hehe =)
Thomas is a beautiful man. The BMW is ugly.
thank you guys =)
Great review!
cheers!
Night drive test would be great add factor to your videos as well as the prices for every model
I love this car. The spiritual successor to the i3.
Making calls must be fun in this car, it's always a conference call with that lovely assistant 😇
Camera position while driving is on point 👍🙂
highly appreciated! please recommend :)
I Love the Camera set up Thomas , Can see you both ways 😅😅❤️🙏
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@@autogefuehl ❤️
In some cars it’s obvious the software hasn’t been tested whilst driving it, only on a static device in an office.
Great video...thanks
thanks keep tuning in and recommend our channel please =)
Thomas, you showed the different colors earlier. Have you seen the Oxide Metallic Grey that is now an option in the US? If so, thoughts? Thx
Not yet
Thanks for the interesting review. The voice assistant is indeed intrusive. It almost made you lose it but kept your cool nevertheless. You are that good.
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Super 👍 mind blowing review 🔥🔥🖖🖖🤗🤗🤗💚❤️❤️
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Love to see a real world test of this car towing.
I think the heat controls are overplayed. My 7 i set and it is always perfect. The steering wheel I have set based on outside temp.
"That is really cool!". "OK, I'll raise the temperature to 25 degrees". :-D
Great review!! How will u say it actually handled in the snow?
cheers! Well it has electric AWD, pretty capable
Voice assistant going nuts, somebody had a camera near the OS, both interacted some how and OS was going nuts aswell.
Hi Thomas, is it not possible to precondition the car manually ? As far as I know you can at least programm a departure time so the battery should get preheated.
Battery only gets preheated (or cooled) if the car has a departure time set AND it's plugged into an EVSE with at least 3kW output (so not the little cable it comes with) - otherwise it's just the cabin that is preconditioned. This is the case since the i3 in 2014. There is nothing smart about it preconditioning before you show up to a charger.
Thank you for explaining. I hope they can improve this OTA.
Look at the nice flip open covers for the charging ports. Mercedes just puts the DC one on a stupid plastic thing that hangs out when charging.
How much degree is turning circle of rear wheels?
Used bmw IX are going to be expensive since the production was stop for so long. Also if you order one now you have to wait 12 months to get it?
Probably shortage of chips for cars.
Welcome to 2022.
Really hoping this looks better in person 🤞
I know there is some good news about the X7 ev can you please do a show on the new X7.
When keep moving your hand while you are taking you are activating "gesture control".
What is the point of the IX 40??
The iX3 is cheaper and has longer range and is more or less same size.
I had an iX M50 on loan last weekend and found it a soulless experience. It was undoubtedly quick but once the novelty of that had worn off (which it did surprisingly quickly) I struggled to find anything about the car that made me want to go out and just drive it. I’ve had other electric vehicles - BMW i4 40 and then the M50 and the Tesla Model Y Performance and they all seemed to have a draw that you just couldn’t resist - you just felt the need to go out and drive them. They were fun and enjoyable - they made the drive - any drive, for that matter, seem special. The iX M50 on the other hand just didn’t offer that feeling - not once after the first drive in it did I feel the need to get up and just go for a drive. I’m still not entirely sure what it was about the car that made me feel this way. Perhaps it was its sheer size, weight or jelly-mould looks. Or perhaps it was the fact that I couldn’t figure out how it could possibly cost £116,000 and not feel like it did. Whatever it was, it just didn’t work for me and I wasn’t sorry to see the back of it when it was returned on the Monday.
So basically you can’t afford it 😂😂😂. Funny how all the other cars you mention are a lot cheaper. Stay in your lane.
I'm fairly sure Bjorn showed that there's an option to manually pre-heat the car that can be added to the car's favorites pulldown.
Not sure if that’s bringing the battery to a suitable fast charging temp
@@autogefuehl How long is it running for? pre-heating the battery can take 15-20 minutes.
The front grill looks like a beavers teeth. Pun not intended 😂.
At least the interior is 👍
The voice in the car sounds like the voice in the BMW 7 series in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.
Which do you prefer, Levorg, cla or 3 Series?
I think I'm busy, but I'd appreciate it if you could comment.
levorg sti is the best, flat engine and 300 hp
That Voice assistant would drive me crazy. What if you were on a call and that keeps going on and on?
I think during a call it is deactivated
@@autogefuehl Are You sure????
Never had anything popping up during call
Nothing quite like driving around in your M60 looking like an M50.
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From what I saw the extra power is only available for short bursts. However it is actually cheaper as it comes with all options if you go mad with the 50.
I get the feeling Thomas you might have some Dutch genes. You were really Dutch-style critical at the end! 🙂 Mach es gut!
Dank u well!
Ah Thomas. You need the Voice Assistant divorce package! 🤬
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I don't know why, but the design is slowly growing on me.
It would be great if you could blur/pixelate the front in future iX videos until they redesign it.
Wundebar! I'll live with the reflections from the crystalline. It looks utterly gorgeous.
NICE CAR
Why dont you ask the asistent to stay stopped, that would be a good test. The ix40 is only around 20% more than the ix3 with same size battery, can tow 2.500kg.
You at 26:41 made me laugh so hard! That damn driving assistant was so annoying! 🤣
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@@autogefuehl LOL
Maybe BMW should add a "video recording mode" to shut the assinteant off.😁
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'Much appreciate a view into "EV Reality" No doubt it's the future, and we will need to adapt, but hopefully the process continues to get less-complex/faster
Belgium…..always worth a drive 😂
This is frustrating to watch.
I own a current gen 330d and I always praised BMWs infotainment system. The controls are close to perfect, so is the OS. I always felt like BMW “gets” the drivers.
What I see here / in OS8 looks so terrible, what on earth are they thinking?!? I already dread the day when I “have” to switch, I can only pray they realize how bad it is and what a step backwards this is from OS7 :(
Yep OS7 rocks
Holy crap. This makes a Pontiac Aztek look good.
I came back to watch this video once again just after watching your EQE SUV review. I really tried to like Mercedes more but I don't. Now I only need 150 000 € to get an iX.
Sure you don't need to spend 150k euro on an IX, lol. Since I have to move to Canada, I can sell you my IX 40 with bowers wilkins and massage for 60k euro. Only got 17k km, all highway km, and range up to 420-430 km.
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I hated the design at first. After ive seen some of the m on the road (i live in Norway), it is starting to grow on me. Maby its one of those cars..
Well Thomas is taking note of the other youtube testers who do in depth tests. Good effort but others have differing camera placement so you can see the displays and infra red light flickering. However the attention to the body crease lines is a trademark of this channel. I don't think BMW have any idea what aesthetically pleasing means.
tbh I dont have any time to watch any other car videos, too busy creating them... for leisure I watch motocross races =)
I think the grill looks like the mustache of a certain German WW2 personality
200 kW theoretical max charge speed is less than in a much cheaper Korean car with much smaller battery.
BMW and Mercedes are just lagging behind, and I don't think they need to. Porsche offered 270 kW already a few years ago.
They sustain that charging speed over a larger time period. So overall it charges in the same time.
@@SDav21 Nah, it takes longer to charge this car. But it's about 10 minutes longer. Not exactly the end of the world. It also has higher base range, so the 80% in this car is worth more miles than the Korean cars.
The peak charge rate is irrelevant. The relevant metric is the average charge speed.
200kW is the maximum for a car with 400V architecture, because the charger can only deliver 500A. So 400V x 500A = 200kW. In general, you can say, that a higher charging speed needs more cobalt and this is definitely not a good thing to have. What’s interesting is the average charging speed between 10 and 80 % SoC. And here the iX is definitely not leading, but I think you could call it „state of the art“… Charging time is more or less the same than EQS
@@bux834 10h minutes on a 10-80% matters more? I agree, Koreans econoboxes have better batteries than some German battleships. Taycan manages years ago. Why do we even have brands making cars with these specs in that price range?
This man’s eyes made me hyperventilate every time he stared at me. You are gorgeous 😂
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The rest of the world might hate these, but China will love this - BMW executives probably...
I enjoy your videos!!! One thing I really don’t understand is the importance of wanting to change the temperature easily - and ”all the time”. Personally I’ve set the temperature to 21 and haven’t needed to change it the last 8 years, unless I needed ”full power” to get it to 21. Why change a temperature that’s already perfect? Almost every review I see about EV:s it’s about how difficult it is to set a new temperature via the display. Why need a physical control for something like that? Is it because there is a need to use the fingers everywhere to just ”move around”? And about voice and gesture control. Why not just shut it off instead of complaining about it saying that it’s better to buy another car instead? Details that can be changed easily, but made very big. I really don’t get it??? Where is the balance? By the way - while driving - you shouldn’t mess around - instead you should look at how and where you are driving. AND if there is an OTA - it could all be fixed in the next version. Why not ask BMW to do smart things, like cooling the car when there is a child or a pet inside (Tesla-inspired 😎) - that’s worth so much more that ”playing around” with an interface. Or could life saving things like AC ”while in the shop mode” be about ”not-invented-here”? I have a hard time believing this could be protected by a patent. It should also be an easy fix - or? And comlaining about the looks. Wow - there are so many ugly cars in the world… Like Bentley - or Rolls Royce. And I just have a very hard time with the ”nosy” looks of AlfaRomeo - how could they make a front grill like that😂 But they are Classics - AND - luxury cars - so they look great - or?
Thanks! Eg I want to drive with ac off but temp low. When too hot then ac on but temp higher at 22c / 77f
I agree with you re climate control A/C, as opposed to the old systems of rotating dials to adjust the temperature constantly, changes to the settings are very rarely required, summer or winter. The only changes I make while on the move are for music or navigation and this can often be done with voice activation. Once other controls are set, you don't have to change them.
Spot on with the pet mode suggestion.
I think the double kidney has now become a pair of lungs. LOL!
Hey Thomas, when will we see you in some Lamborghinis?
Soon 😎
Sorry Thomas the bmw computer is not a full AI 😂😂
Always voice control and gesture control OFF😅
I’m i4X or I430M
"Screw them..!!" 😂😅
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The BMW design team needs to be fired.
Along with their marketing team. Its almost like they're trying to compete with each other to see which is worse.
What, you can't switch off the A/C? WTF?
27:58 would've been fun, yeah, but as you are perfectly aware - in Germany you can't have fun.
Are they hiring bricklayers instead of designers at BMW these days ?
Those aren't double kidneys, those are fucking lungs.
Don’t worry Thomas, during your frustration with the interface, I shouted the big words for you! 🤣. That alone gives this a NO for me. 😠
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The price you mean… because you can’t afford it😂
Suddenly, the once "slightly weird" iX is by far the best looking new BMW for 2023. x7 and new 7 series are nothing but monstrosities.
The grill from a distance just isn't working .
BMW got so many things right and so many things wrong with this vehicle. For example, the driving experience seems fantastic but the OS 8 UI is on par with using your cellphone while driving.
This is not a genuine BMW, so the driving experience is equally BAD. People like you have encouraged this new 🦫 brand to move away from proper driving machine.
BMW iX (EV SUV) xDrive 50 (AWD) am sure this is a great vehicle. Prefer the BMW X7 for an SUV ... iX exterior & interior design, IMO, are basic ... Slainte' ! Cheers !
The lack of enthusiasm is clearly felt
I wonder if most people knew how the cobalt for the batteries is mined and the lithium, not to mention the graphite which all batteries need which produced in uk for most of Europe which comes from crude oil, if they’d still think ev’s are the future?? This is nothing to do with your review by the way, I think your the best car reviewer on TH-cam,
Thanks!! Keep tuning in
I don't really understand why so many companies are trying to create those big and bulky EV SUV. That itself goes against the idea of EV cars. They are already big, heavy and have bad aerodynamics.
I think at this point car companies want us to live in the car, it's EV, big enough for one and relatively affordable if you consider it as a house, those speaker are nice, I'd comfortable to live in this car if my neighborhood have less crime rate
The practicality of an SUV can be more beneficial for some, rathet than a standard sedan. So, why not have it in an electric form?
@@derrickjscottds What practicality does an iX offer over a standard sedan of similar size?
@@AZzalor6632 well for one a sedan and an SUV are two different types of vehicles. A sedan has a trunk separate from the cabin. An SUV is extending the cabin into the cargo area. The sheer cargo capacity is enlarged by an SUVs design. Which affects the practicality component. Hope that helps define the difference between the 2.
@@derrickjscottds That is actually not true. I know that cargo and room are often arguments that are told, but they are wrong. Except you take the really big SUVs with a truck bed, there are always normal cars that can have the same cargo space. Also, there are definitly sedans where the trunk is not separated from from the cabin...those are most sedans that I know at least.
Most SUVs are simply sedans that have more ground clearance and have higher base but that's it.
That's why cars like this iX for example make no sense at all as they can't do anything that a normal sedan couldn't.
That 'Gril ' (Cow Pusher) is a bad . It stops me from a new BMW Purchase.
Still don’t like the open footwell design. The driver’s footwell is open for access to the passenger side. Get a water bottle for example stuck under the brake pedal and in the nanosecond before ramming the car in front, you may regret that design…
When somebody sues BMW they will change it. And wish people would stop suggesting that voice control is a substitute for physical buttons. It isn’t. Having to tell your children to shut up because you want to activate steering wheel heating is not the answer.
They are not kidneys anymore, now they look like lungs hehe
Who the F thought of designing a pentagonal steering wheel. It's not supposed to be a steering house.
Would you get the iX3 or Model Y?
see here: th-cam.com/video/dEQubj8fETE/w-d-xo.html
You should just deactivate the speech control, put it in the setting where it only activates when you press the voice control button.
Overall the ergonomics, user interface, everything is absolutely horrendous in modern BMWs after they have totally abandoned their long tradition of following their own rules of ergonomics and user interface. Sure, the iDrive in many ways is industry leader, but they keep messing it up and making that worse too.
The buttons are ever worse, their grouping is ever worse, just horrible...
The UX (user experience) in this car is bad.
BMW needs to improve this.
The bench on the seats is ridiculous for a car at this price. No extendable bench. Dealbreaker for sure. Quirky, edgy design, but not all that well thought out.
Maybe the wanted to offer coco lol
I do like the car in real life. It grows on you and yes, the interior is beautiful. However, what I don’t understand is that when you pick the memory package on the front driver seat you have to pay 1600€ extra and you lose all the good stuff. No lumber support, message, etc. How do they explain that?
😂 Only cancers grow on people... this being one for what BMW really once was.
@@nessuno5403 okay… I just wanted to say that I do like the car more now I’ve seen it more often.
@@vidsidekfad3282 ok :)
Saw one of these the other day. Without any shadow of doubt, the ugliest monstrosity I’ve ever seen. Fell from the top of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. Hideous!
Angry Bird game piggy 🐷🐽nose front grill, how did the executives approved such a design?
Will there be ALPINA variants of BMW electric cars in the future?
BMW is buying ALPINA after 57 years, from 2025, all ALPINA cars will be straight from BMW Factory.
I know taste and design is usually subjective, but it's going to take some time getting used to seeing these monstrosities on the road. I guess in some ways its better than the much better looking IX3 that somehow still looks like a cheap electrified first gen. X3
There is nothing subjective about taste and design at all. If it would be, then Michael Angelo sculptures and pictures were not amazing for hundred years, as same as most of the Ferraris (not for hundred years but still). Most of the people have the same perception of beauty - for example symetrics.
Some od new BMW are just shitty looking cars and their designer tries to add some weird philosophy to that.
@@johndoe53831 Thanks, I honestly agree, I just didn't want to say right out that I hope this car comes with full self driving as anyone who buys it is most likely blind XD
People do talk in cars they just don't say BMW every 2 minutes 🙄
BMW needs to do away from JBL sound system , that brand is synonymous with bad quality, BMW should partner with BURMESTER , MBL OR T+A for truly German sound system, instead of the American junk, but then again BMW,s X series are now predominantly made in USA, this explains it all.
as shown in the review, top sound system is bowers & wilkins, mid trim is hardman kardon
bmw IX got bowers and wilkins and it's the best car audio on the market on the IX suv body
Not really a looker, is it 🙈