BMW i3 | 5 THINGS NOBODY TOLD ME...& 5 things I love!

hi guys welcome back to my channel so I can see a different filming setup today I am going to be doing a review on my car which is a 2017 BMW i3 not the range extender version please note this car is new to me it was actually brand new even though it is a 2017 model and it is fully loaded it has the premium and the tech package it has the sunroof so I'm gonna be going over all the sort of the pros and the cons with this car after having it for the three months now the five there's five pros and five cons I'm gonna go over with you guys and the five cons that I'm gonna touch on are things that no one ever told me so before I actually purchase this car I went to tons of different websites Car and Driver Consumer Reports I watched a boatload of YouTube videos and no one actually touched on these issues with the car issues I say because I mean they're not that bad really but I really wanted to shed light on these for anyone that's actually purchasing this car or thinking about purchasing these car because no one ever told me about these things before I actually purchased it so I guess without further ado we're gonna get on with this review we're gonna start with the things that kind of annoy me a little bit about this car that no one actually told me about the first thing is actually gonna be about the seat right here I don't know if you can tell but it is a little bit of a different color compared to the leather say up here it gets dirty if you wear dark denim or black pants and so what I have found helps with this is if you use baby wipes on but you can see how there is that discoloration some baby whites right here and let's just do a little quick video with it no one told me about this and you can see like look at that blue and black that just comes off with the baby wipes so while it is easy to clean that is something that nobody actually told me about with regards to this car I talked to you about the second thing that bothers me a little bit and it is this headrest this headrest is not adjustable I don't know why it actually goes up pretty high I don't know if you can see that I have like maybe a couple inches an inch and a half before it actually hits the top of the roof but it's not adjustable and someone like me I'm about five five in a bit I feel like there's a significant amount of room and this part here and just and they should have made it an adjustable is all I'm gonna say so what this doesn't have is it doesn't have Lane Assist warning or departure warning on the car what this car does have like a driving assistance package which essentially is this guy right here you can turn it off or you can turn it on and you can see it has the frontal collision warning IAC's it I just turned it off right now by hitting the button and then it has pedestrian warning it doesn't have the Lane Assist which essentially is what I was just talking to you guys about so the Lane Assist is the thing that you're actually gonna have on your side mirrors there and that's gonna alert you in case somebody say a bike a bicycle is coming beside your blind spot that's essentially what would show up there okay so my fourth sort of quirk about this car that I don't like is a battery fluctuation so in order to do this I'm gonna have to show you how the cars turned on essentially all you have to do is hit start/stop and you're in park do you want to turn the car if you put your foot on the brake and you hit start/stop again this just essentially essentially gets the accessories going so this is it doc tada now the issue I have about this car is going to be the battery fluctuation so right now you can see I with my battery I have about 127 kilometers and that's just on comfort mode I like to drive in Eco Pro so you can see you went to Eco Pro and it gives me a little bit more kilometers however if I decide to turn on the AC which I'll do right now so I turned on the AC and I turn it up so because it's SuperDuper hot it suddenly drops down to 119 kilometers in sane so let's just turn that guy off but if I turn this back on and hit auto take away the AC it goes to 132 so how does like there's still air coming out but now I have more kilometers than I started with so that's a bit confusing okay so now we're on to the fifth little con about this car that I don't really love and that's gonna be that the back windows can actually not go up or down there you go there's a door to the back seat and essentially it has no window buttons at all so there it is that's your window for anyone that's in the back seat and they cannot adjust it unfortunately it can go up and down it's always stationary so you'll see on the front seat here obviously we have this guy there and I have it online and it only has the controls for the front two seats for the window so me that's not really an issue it's typically just my husband and I and then sometimes like once a week my mom will come out with me we'll go for dinner or something like that but it's something to consider if you have children or small kids that are gonna be with you or you have like a dog or some sort of animals they're gonna be in the back seat please note that that window doesn't go up and down so that might be a little bit restrictive I'm gonna go over some of the pros now there are way way more pros to this car and benefits to this car than there are cons I absolutely love this car and even knowing those five little things now I would still go back and purchase this car a hundred percent so the first one I'm gonna tell you about I'm not actually gonna demonstrate because it's probably not safe right now is the amount of torque that this little car has and because it's electric at a standstill it can accelerate super quickly from zero to 100 I remember the guy when we're test driving at the BMW salesperson was saying that off the line this little electric car can beat the majority of all the BMWs off the line now granted they'll catch up to me eventually but off the line the amount of torque this guy has it's insane so where I find it benefits me is if I am driving and say I'm at a approaching a green light and I see on the pedestrian walks on there was like three seconds left until it turns yellow and then red I can accelerate SuperDuper quickly granted if it's safe I'll do that but I can do that so I can make it before the light even turns yellow so that's one of the pros to having like this amazing torque car is that while it's compact it is super duper spacious and that's because there's actually no sorry you guys can see I have to vacuum there's like no console area here between like this part and this upper part so usually there's something here but there's not so there's a lot of sort of legroom okay the third thing I really love about this car is that it does have back doors a lot of people assume this is only a two-door car but it's actually four door and the doors open up this way so they're like suicide doors but I really like that about the car it's easy to get in and out of and then you can sort of see the amount of room that you actually have in the backseat it is quite considerable I would say compared to the Civic I had it's about the same and please note there's only two seats in the back you can kind of see right there there is no soar a third back seat but I really appreciate the car doors okay so the fourth thing that I really enjoy about this car is the sunroof which you can see you right there now you can also see that there's this divider right in the middle of the sunroof and we first bought the car we're like why the heck is there a divider there that makes no sense but it actually does because if there's two people in the front seat and say it's a really sunny day the Sun can get in my eye or my husband's eye and so it's easy to just close one while the other person still has access to like that nice fresh air and the Sun so I really enjoy that because it makes it a little bit sort of customized for the person so the last pro about this car while there's still many more but the last one that I really want to touch on is gonna be the one pedal driving and that's something that will take a couple days to get used to but it's honestly phenomenal and I know Tesla does one pedal driving and the new Nissan Leaf does one pedal driving but essentially one pedal driving is exactly as it says it's your driving with just one pedal so down below you can see that I have my brake and I have my foot on the gas right now so essentially when you're driving you just put your foot on the gas and when you want essentially brake you just lift your foot off the gas and you will come to a complete stop it's insane so you don't even need to physically move your foot to the brake very often unless you need to come to a stop really quickly but if you time it you never actually have to use a brake okay guys so that concludes my pros and my cons that I have with the BMW i3 I hope this video helps you guys if you have any questions please leave them down below I just really want to make a video and explain some of the things that I found in this car that no one actually told me about and I wish I kind of known like I said it wouldn't have affected whether or not I purchased this car it's just kind of I wish someone had told me these things about the car

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 19 2018