2023 BMW 7 Series Review // Taking The S-Class To School

okay listen I know I hit you in the head with the Rolls Royce and the my back door yes unless I'm sorry it was just I was trying to be funny I promise this will stop it as a proper proximity sensor before it hits your head but we could use a mannequin we haven't got used we could use a mannequin but we have to have faith in engineering okay it's a leap of faith it's gonna work trust me it will stop just like this yeah and push the button you hit me yeah okay I wasn't excited oh oh foreign [Music] you're watching throttle house I'm Thomas and I'm James and this is the BMW i7 [Music] i7 meaning that this all-new 7 Series that we're playing with today is equipped with two electric motors that together output 536 horsepower and 549 pound-feet of torque it gets up to 512 kilometers of range and for the low low price of 194 200 Canadian aspect it's filled with so much technical Wizardry that Severus Snape starts getting involved it will be which your mind with a 31 inch drop down TV and snare your senses with an unrivaled sound system bottle Fame Brew Glory ventilate your back and massage your bum but that stuff alone does not a luxury Flagship make it has to perform and look the part as well so does it you're new to throttled house [Applause] we do car reviews track tests and quite a lot of messing about so subscribe hit the Bell [Music] here it is there it is just soak it all in yeah soak it all it's like being waterboarded yes by event you're in red urine event you're in event you a venture in red three metallic what was the event for the urine was it getting punched in the kidneys no it's not you know it's a good color does it actually have the word urine in it it does have the word urine in it um good but but it doesn't have urine in it otherwise it's actually a lovely red and it's red being shadowed over by black sapphire because this is a two-tone paint example I mean and just judging by how hideous it is it must be free no it's twelve thousand dollars for the two-tone um hey at least the quality of the paint is really good well I was going to gloss over that the same way the painters did because the uh the cheese fill Orange Peel cheese peel you're right this is a wave story this is ready to cheese pretty Orange Peel okay um we don't need to talk that much about this um because it speaks for itself and it's saying holy I'm ugly this isn't the 70s review this is just the roast of Sarah what is this big thing in the center of it as well that's technology oh oh technology technologist speaking of which come on over here these doors have a mind of their own yeah we haven't really got on with them so as far as we can tell they do a different thing every single time you push the button yes right so this I'm gonna push this and it will okay I'm gonna push it again it's closing look at this no it's not it's not no and now it goes oh it doesn't stop yeah it kind of it's randomized this opened itself into my M2 yes it was it was BMW on BMW violence it was bad I know I don't know why I have ppf I'm fine don't worry thank you for asking so then the rest of it then listen we've the previous generation 7 Series yes got a big grill yeah we said that was an issue Yep this one they've gone with what they call a monolithic uh aesthetic right which is like the I Googled it it just means big like single Stone well I thought it shopped at Spencer's when I first heard it but it means that it's yeah from a single block of stone um and I think from the profile it's fine profile is not honestly that bad at all I'm not a huge fan of the the i7 Wheels I think that they're I mean the arrow and all that stuff there's a few different wheels so this has the the shadow line M sport packet sorry the M sport Shadow line package yeah there's a lot of M badges on this car that is so far from being an M car yeah yep but it's got 21 inch wheels as part of that package and it's got blacked out elements um this because this otherwise can be silver can I just say that yeah I make a lot of noises it is and it's buzzing at us and I'm sorry it is not a good looking vehicle in this spec that said you can make it less of a not good looking vehicle by doing it in matte black just black it all out do the whole thing then you can't really see the grill that well yeah right but remember in i7 spec this just had to be better looking than the eqs which it is right yes problem is in seven series petrol spec it still looks like this yeah and then it competes with the S-Class which it's gonna lose that battle it's gonna Maybe in the car world I haven't driven that one yet but visually the S-Class is like a classy understated German limo but where the 7 Series has not lost in the past is its driving Dynamics well listen we're about to find out if it makes up for whatever the hell this is [Music] sitting in the back here for the first time we were mean just then we we deserve at least so I think right but you don't get self-conscious of what your private jet looks like from the clouds the other people like the whole point is no but most if not all private jets look dope but if BMW made one all right go on how's it driving so it drives very very well I think right off the bat I can say that this fixes all the issues that I had with the eqs it does have the rear wheel steering which works great in parking lots and feels a bit weird feels like you're drifting at low speeds but it immediately is gone when you're at speed there's no instance of it as you're going through low speed Corners Everything feels very well calibrated yeah when you pick this up yeah you called me and said this is an exceptionally good vehicle yes it is wonderful to drive honestly I think everything about it is very very intuitive the brake pedal feels natural the throttle pedal feels natural the the EV Power is not like egregious and like punch you in the face but you're gonna roll onto the throttle oh Phil's given the cushion it just gives you torque well this is this is this is like an old to 60 and four and a half seconds or so so it matches the 750i that we drove yes a year or two ago it is very quick I mean right now I'm in like the normal mode or whatever right but I also have um I've got a sport mode right oh and then I've got a boost button all right I got 10 seconds of boost noises right there that's some hands right there for sure it is you know I mean it has all the driving modes right it has all of them yeah yeah it does it has personal Sport and there's an efficient obviously and then well there's these ones and I haven't really figured out what they do so if I click expressive okay it's opening that Sun's shade and it's changed the dash okay well it's making a weird noise when I accelerate but other than that do you feel any difference nothing yeah do the strange urge to join an interpretive dance class though oh I'll interpret for you all right so then if I go to relax I haven't you know put some sun shades up and stuff but other than that I haven't been able to figure out what it does do you feel any more relaxed no I feel like the ambient lighting changed though anyway the point is is that this car is all about technology technology first it is which is strange because I feel like that's always kind of in the s-classes thing and then the cemeteries has just gone here no no different different meaning of the word technology I'm not talking about like Innovations in the car space I'm talking about just throwing an Apple store at a car that's what this is press the button you ready um you go ahead and press the button yep there it comes I can't even see your face anymore all I see is you being entertained by this is an insane feature yeah yeah no it's a ridiculous it's 4 900 for the privilege but I mean like it's not that much for what it is right yeah if you've gone the whole way it's what it's two percent of the entire sale price of the car and it's like the showpiece yeah yeah it's it's the reason that you buy this and I can adjust it forward and after and the AFT yes you can yeah well you can only go so far and you're lucky that my driving position isn't far enough back that you were not permitted to put the screen down oh it doesn't let you no and you can't move my seat for safety reasons obviously so if there were a tall basically you have to hire a short gentleman to drive your car oh lady or lady I wasn't implying the elimination they're in larger Supply short ladies yes it is a Tech Fest back there you have a control over all of the things with your little screen on here this screen's great it is my only issue with it is that it's not the most responsive I've been playing around with it and it doesn't always it's not like if you're used to an iPhone it doesn't feel at that level it's very close right so I've got massaging ventilated heated yep I guess and heated surfaces as well I think a big part of that is all the money for all the packages this is quite yeah you got you got to spend the money yeah and I think for 300 a piece it's still byoi if you don't get the TV you can have your own iPad which by the way this is one of the most this is a strange comment one of the most satisfying like Slide Away things ever you learn the important stuff here on throttle house it's I listen I'm being bounced around slightly yeah it's not Rolls-Royce level no it's not the ride is still very good and it controls its mass like what it might not have in the most perfect ride I think it makes up for in how it goes around corners yes like it handles its mask extraordinary whereas the eqs felt dangerous all the time yeah from a pure driver's perspective whether we're talking about the person who's being driven or me I think this succeeds it being an Ultra Luxury car I have one more caveat and this is completely subjective you ready I'm ready we said that we thought that all luxury cars will be elevated once they become EVS yes right that hasn't happened for me I thought I was gonna get this is the first Ultra Luxury Car we've driven that's and can you put that screen I can't see your face uh this is the first Ultra Luxury Car we've driven that is a full EV okay yeah and the thing that I thought was gonna happen didn't happen instead of it being like wow this is the smoothest experience possible what it did do was make this car feel like a 50 000 EB all right so from the passenger seat I think our original assertion was correct I think the electric part of it has escalated it it's removed any weird shifts or any engine noise no it feels unrefined like even a Rolls-Royce V12 can sound unrefined even in the ghost yeah I think it's because of the direction that we've experienced it from we've now associated with EV Powers we've driven so many ionic fives ev6s i4s that we now think of it as that price range style of engine because in the past that's what's happened we drive a six cylinder it's normally between 40 and 70 000 we drive an eight cylinder it's normally between 50 and 90 000. we drive a V12 it's always expensive so we're tuned to to to think that I think we are and that's I think that's issue that's why I said objectively it's better but that just means we'll adjust where I find it hurts the luxury thing and this is what we said about luxury in the past is luxury is time it's convenience it's it's minimum input maximum output yes and you driving around calling me upset yesterday trying to find a way to charge this so that we could film it for today yep that is not luxury I don't have a fast charger at home like even if I had a level two I don't think I would have had enough time I had to find a that DC fast charger and the fastest one I could find was 40 kilowatt and I had to drive 20 minutes to get to it and again I don't live in a you know nowhere like I live in a city with all hundreds of thousands of people in it and there still isn't one in my down so that's an argument towards the uh the MS the I sorry the 760 extra if yes which sounds like a V12 it's not though it's now the video even then I still think that for me we've known luxury to be that sense of grandeur that sense of a highly sophisticated carefully tuned engine up front and you put your foot down and the front lifts up like you're going up on a boat on plane and you get the subtle Roar of cylinders have you a quote from earlier which just says this is calibrated perfectly so I know I said subjectively I miss a V12 just saying okay well it's uh let's pull over and have a look at this Tech then okay all right so top this yeah yeah to have that and it will close there it goes oh you can't hurt me from in here it very confidently closes there's no like oh maybe I'll check to see if there's a small child's head there no it will close yeah we'll just just close all right uh mirror Dimension from Doctor Strange is in front of me yes it is that is how they do ambient Lighting in this car right so that changes depending on the different mode you're in if you click that right there it flashes yeah it feels like I'm inside of a police car what is it with you in technology I'm sorry gentle it is a hazard symbol when was the last time you needed to use a hazard symbol in an emergency and you went like this you went no you're right you're right you look at that look what I'm doing right 90 year old man look what I'm doing right now you're pressing everything as hard as you can yeah just something even but you're when you're driving down the road anyway where are you driving oh my God this moon is impossible to navigate yes those should be buttons 100 oh speaking of buttons this is a good thing moving on to good stuff there's a lot of technology in this car and we'll go over a few things in a minute but one of the coolest things that I've found is that there are shortcut buttons for all the different so if I click this here it's a little hamburger it brings me to driver settings if I click this here it brings me to lighting settings if I click this here it brings me to seat settings so they seem sporadically placed but they actually are placed in the theme of the thing they do so the seat one's over there the driver okay you know it's quite a it's a good it's a good idea I'm not being able to come up with that but I've never seen it before I don't think yeah so obviously we're missing from the eqs the Star Trek level giant screen I'm not missing it you're not missing it no no this is fine this is fun it gives me all the information that I need I I mean it is for me and we can make jokes about me being 90 as much as you want but I have grown up around technology and this car is too complicated like here just just climb menu there there's a comment yeah but I used to be a train conductor so yeah this is this exactly yeah that's busy and also it's a bit slow on the finger though yeah yeah and and at first glance there's not really that clear what to do also check this out you go here go to your apps does this not look like a really low rent like Amazon Fire iPad 2005. well you obviously you can use you can just use carplay but I like that it integrates the carplay stuff I would just sit in the carplay screen though I'd never be yeah the car place great but I like the gloss black wood going on here with the grain I love the M stripe accent especially on the headrest there now I know that the M stripe doesn't belong on this it triggers me yeah yeah it shouldn't it should it just should even in this safe space like put parking is next to my M2 in my driveway I immediately go like that cheapens that car no I know right they were they're overly generous with that especially because this just has the M sport Shadow line package but they've always yeah they've always done that I mean the m240i even has that awesome which again it's so cool whether it belongs in the car or not piece there yeah speaking of art pieces look at this speaker system this is the only other vehicle we've been in that has the Bowers and Wilkins diamond crystal crusted special ultimate 3D it's the same system as The IX which we have lauded and other people have as well as the best sound system in any vehicle I think this is I I think it is as good as good yeah I think the the SUV shape complements The IX a bit more yeah sitting in the back when you were playing it it's not as good in the back of this I will say though that on the way here this morning I had this sound system pump in some tunes and I I don't think I've ever been upset to get off the highway yeah I was in a Zone to a degree that I've never experienced before where almost to an unsafe level where all the transport trucks surrounding me weren't real they didn't matter that one was coming I was like oh wow think about the experience your passengers having a 31 inch TV in front of them yeah no it's very cool I've never signed a car that has that yeah it's about it's about technology it's really this is about technology first and I mean that's what that's what BMW has said this they sell more cars to the Chinese market than anything else and that is what apparently sells is those big grills and this much technology which is in the press release it says that right in the press release yeah so I mean that's what they're doing there's some great stuff happening inside let you know the crystals are great they're fantastic if you want to catch the Sun for an energy and shine it right into your eyes yeah the steering wheel we always get into BMW and say that the steering wheel is the same in all of them this one's a very cool steering wheel isn't this the same as the IX no I don't think it is oh okay and you well first of all we've got the end badge there which is pretty sure but then this is is a really cool design here the design is great I find all the controls to be intuitive and this is how I control the the automatic self-driving stuff the tech it has that thing where you don't have to have your hands on the steering wheel and it Steers for you oh it's got the next level the next level and if you indicate it switches Lanes it does however I found it to be glitchy um it it doesn't keep you perfectly in the lane it bounces a little bit and one time I was coming up behind a transport truck without it pulling in front of me or anything and it basically emergency braked and panicked as opposed to just slowing me down slowly yeah having faith in those systems is still difficult yeah so I mean it has lots of stuff well I got one is charging in the back oh these were great they they make my phone super hot so hot yeah they don't charge it but no if you want a hot phone the water's charge 100 is the way to do it I I it's weird I've come away from this and I think this is really quite fantastic and like perfect spec 100 blacked out like if I could have paper bags back which is basically which is basically what blacked out is yeah yeah I would do that but I think I agree this is a brilliant car yeah don't be wrong I do think however that they've packed so much technology into this that they ran out of time to perfectly calibrate it like the doors and the in the in the don't get the door save a couple of grand yes don't get the power door don't get the two-tone paint don't get the doors done yeah so there is a perfect spec here well there is a perfect spec but even still I think that there is a few things in this car like some of the stuff is laggy there's lots of screens I think it just needed a little bit more polishing yeah but otherwise the the foundations are here to be the future of Ultra Luxury technology transport but as it stands if someone handed this to you 10 years from now you'd say why do you want to hurt me [Laughter] [Music] fortunately when new at least the new 7 Series does not want to hurt you it wants to envelop you in comfort and luxury the back seat experience is truly spectacular far far superior to the likes of the Mercedes eqs also in comparison to the eqs the i7's athletic ability despite its heft is BMW magic at its finest in some places the technology as Thomas said in my head showed overshoots its purpose the inconsistent power doors and the stupid touch buttons for emergency items are good examples but from the sound system to the drop down TV to the theatrical driving modes it creates a sense of wonder that may even be the Envy of an S-Class as for the EV stuff the 512 kilometer range while fine is not revolutionary also in in the cold Ontario weather we only saw 400 kilometers at best and the ride while gloriously insulated and calm on smoother roads can get overly busy and bumpy when faced with tarmacular adversity but stepping back if you were picked up at an airport in this by surprise very few Vehicles rolls royces included could make your drive home feel as special as the new 7 Series and as far as luxury flagships go that might just be all that matters thanks for watching what about you Severus 7 Series g90 S-class I prefer not to answer nah come on you gotta give an answer find the S Class interesting all right yeah I thought you'd just go for the seven series and then remove the dumbledores dumb doors dumb they're not the Dumbledore's dumb door I'm sorry I'm sorry [Music] foreign

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Length: 23min 22sec (1402 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 30 2022