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Eric · 30th September 2002, 02:21

Yes MEnthusiast thanks for the feedback, when I said tuning the radio, I meant entering or seeking new stations with stronger reception or switching bands outside of the memorized stations which I don't believe can be done without iDrive.

I agree with you on the excellent screen quality, at least it's a good starting point. I totally agree on the need to add more buttons to improve iDrive, and I believe the input interface should be over engineered allowing the overlapping of the iDrive knob, buttons, voice recognition (still rather immature) and touch screen.

Hutzal you're right, the looks is horrible. I think they started off in the wrong foot with the Z9 and went downhill from there. Didn't realize designing the outside and inside of a car could be such a challenge until seeing the mess BMW is in. Certain things we take for granted.

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Eric Addicted Member (>300 posts) Join Date: Apr 2000 Posts: 306 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Yes MEnthusiast thanks for the feedback, when I said tuning the radio, I meant entering or seeking new stations with stronger reception or switching bands outside of the memorized stations which I don't believe can be done without iDrive. I agree with you on the excellent screen quality, at least it's a good starting point. I totally agree on the need to add more buttons to improve iDrive, and I believe the input interface should be over engineered allowing the overlapping of the iDrive knob, buttons, voice recognition (still rather immature) and touch screen. Hutzal you're right, the looks is horrible. I think they started off in the wrong foot with the Z9 and went downhill from there. Didn't realize designing the outside and inside of a car could be such a challenge until seeing the mess BMW is in. Certain things we take for granted.