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      01-14-2015, 12:30 AM   #1
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I will bet that bmw G11 facelift (after 3 years) will have a completely redesigned dash.

I am having a hard time accepting the laptop screen jutting out from the dash. It's just ridiculous.

Bmw needs to put a giant reset button right near the start/stop switch.

Then, a giant finger should pop out and depress the reset switch....lets start over and redesign the g11 dash.

What was bmw thinking? The current F01/02 looks like it evolved from the g11.
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      01-14-2015, 05:11 PM   #2
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Agree. BMW should have checked the new S-Class.
Good news though for those of us that just bought an F01!
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      01-14-2015, 06:10 PM   #3
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I dunno. That type of screen seems to be the way the market is going. Maybe they'll do like Audi and Caddy and make it retractable.
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      01-14-2015, 09:21 PM   #4
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I dunno. That type of screen seems to be the way the market is going. Maybe they'll do like Audi and Caddy and make it retractable.
I saw the screen on a new 3 series and 6 series. The b&o speaker is blocked behind the silly computer tablet screen---that off-axis coloration can't be good for the fancy schmancy sound quality now. Worse, even at the dealer there was a blanket of dust behind the computer screen. The dust coated that movable speaker. The freaking dash looks like the back of my home TV where you hide all the wires.

Only one word comes to mind with that stupid tablet like computer screen: AFTERTHOUGHT
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      01-14-2015, 09:49 PM   #5
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I dunno. That type of screen seems to be the way the market is going. Maybe they'll do like Audi and Caddy and make it retractable.
The f01/f02 dash is beautiful. Plus, at night, it looks like a true cockpit.

The new g11 dash attempts to put the focus on technology by placing (annoyingly) a protruding tablet screen into your line of sight.

You end up with what looks like to me to be the blade of a guillotine that has slammed down straight into the dash---all that's missing is a head rolling into the bucket.
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