The first iDrive system that debuted in 2001 on the E65-generation BMW 7-series included a control knob meant to mimic a computer's mouse. The proliferation of smartphones over the past decade-plus ...

Above that is the new BMW Panoramic Vision system, which is a pillar-to-pillar screen that acts as a heads-up display. It’s ...

Pour one out for the iDrive knob. Nearly a quarter-century after debuting in production form back in 2001 in the E65-/E66-generation 7-series and becoming a staple of the carmaker's models, BMW is ...

Pour one out for the iDrive knob. Nearly a quarter-century after debuting in production form back in 2001 in the E65/E66-generation 7 Series and becoming a staple of the carmaker's models, BMW is ...

Two decades after its debut in the 2001 Series 7, BMW’s iDrive infotainment system is among the best on the market. It’s about to get even better — think, natural language processing, gesture control ...

The new infotainment system is more like a complete makeover for BMW's digital interface, and it's coming first to its new EVs. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, ...

Automotive screens get seemingly larger every year, but none are as big as the room-size dashboard that BMW used to showcase its next-generation cabin technology suite at CES 2025, with a touchscreen ...

Before the company royally angered its fanbase with bucktooth grilles and charging a subscription fee for heated seats, BMW pissed traditionalists off in the early 2000s with its then-new iDrive ...

Our own Ed Loh called it "an idea so simple, so elegant, yet so powerful it was to change the way the world interacted with the automobile." Arthur St. Antoine said it was a "maddeningly convoluted ...