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Replying to: shipo (Mar 27, 2006 4:14 pm) I guess voice commands would be the least intrusive method. Whatever they do, I hope BMW does away with the iDrive. Just having to scan for radio frequencies on a long trip through the iDrive is a distracting nightmare. I'd have my "navigator" do it, but she spends most of her time sleeping. Her idea of "keeping me company" on a long road trip.  |
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Replying to: hpowders (Mar 27, 2006 5:23 pm) My "navigator" can get herself lost on the way to work. :-/ Like yours, she too loves to keep me company by sleeping for all but the last ten or fifteen miles. Best Regards, Shipo |
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Replying to: shipo (Mar 27, 2006 5:49 pm)
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Hehe... While my navigator can't, she can and does love BMWs, especially the kind with three pedals. In fact, back when I had my broken leg a couple of years back, she had to drive the 530i (it's pretty hard to operate the clutch, brake and gas all with just your left foot). As I was nearing the end of my third cast (and was presumably going to be able to start driving the 5er again), she threatened to break my other leg. Oh! And about moving things, that's her department. True story, one day I was preparing to take a fresh pie out of the oven (she does salads, well... I do pretty much everything else in the kitchen out of self defense) and as such laid a trivet on the counter. As I was rushing around cooking other stuff, I didn't have a chance to get the hot pads out, so I just grabbed a dish towel, pulled the pie out, turned around (as the heat from the glass pie plate was starting to radiate through said towel and into my fingers) and... Whoa! "Hey! Who in the hell stole my trivet?"  Best Regards, Shipo |
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Replying to: hpowders (Mar 27, 2006 7:24 pm)  Was I imagining things? Best Regards, Shipo
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Replying to: pat (Mar 27, 2006 2:28 pm) |
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Replying to: shipo (Mar 27, 2006 7:32 pm) I will try and reconstruct it from memory: Oh yeah? My "navigator" couldn't identify our 545 in a parking lot with 2 cars in it, the other one being a Honda Civic. Yet if I move a candy dish in the living room a fraction of an inch.... Well, you get the idea.
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This is a very interesting video, the A6 simply mopped the floor with the competition. http://www.autospies.com/article/index.asp?articleId=6839&categoryId=23
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In China the affluent are most attracted to a vehicle that is not manufactured by Audi, BMW, MB, Lexus or Infiniti. In fact their number one choice is not even a LPS but a Buick minivan. Forget limousines. These days, the hot vehicle for China's business elite is a Buick minivan. Known here as the GL8, the General Motors Corp. automobile was designed to ferry families around U.S. suburbs. But in China, a revamped model with leather seats, flat television screens and a remote-controlled sound system is being used to coddle executives as they battle the traffic in the country's big cities. Chinese buyers who can afford vehicles like the LaCrosse and GL8 tend to let their chauffeurs do the driving. One of GM's biggest assets is the surprising strength of the Buick name in China. The brand was a status symbol back in prewar Shanghai, when Buicks were the ride of choice for the city's wealthy traders and industrialists. The last emperor of China bought two of them in 1924, and they became the first automobiles to enter the Forbidden City. WSJ.com
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