You can also pre-condition the cabin so that it’s warmed up on chilly mornings or cooled down on high summer days. This can be to send a destination, so your car is ready to take you there, or to check the battery charge. Before even stepping foot in either car, the My BMW app means that at any time, and any place, you can remotely interact with your BMW.
And, from what I can see, there are plenty of technically savvy touches that spark joy. Because nothing says “play me like a toy” than an electric hue. I’m specifically talking about the new all-electric vehicles (EVs) from BMW – the iX and i4, and the subtly positioned coordinating cobalt blue accents on the latter that really pull me in.
Send your destination to the iX and i4 even before you get in, using the My BMW app What did I do with my first proper pay cheque? Squirrelled it away as a means to leave my hometown behind on a plane – not behind the wheel of a car. But what about the freedom that comes from driving a car of one’s own for the first time? I felt a turning point not so long ago when Geri Horner (AKA Ginger Spice and my fave band member) spoke in the BBC documentary My Drive to Freedom about the open-top 1967 car she bought with her first Spice Girl pay cheque. Yes, I’ve done the coming-of-age backpacking trips – I did the Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam-Laos route before it became cliche, OK? Yes, I’ve left my hometown of Glasgow to climb the career ladder in one of the biggest, most bustling cities in the world. Instead, I crossed oceans to experience life on foreign soil, followed by exploring new countries, landing in new continents to then settle in London five years ago, a city where you can get by without a car.īut here’s the thing: I feel like I’ve missed out on an adventure. Maybe it was because it took three attempts – and a heated exchange with a driving examiner – for me to finally clutch my driver’s licence that my ambition to actually use it withered. It’s approaching 10 public-transport-reliant years since I last got behind the wheel of a car.
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