BMW iX xDRIVE40
Battery-electric technology flagship arrives in the UK with less potent motors
TESTED 24.11.21, HAMPSHIRE
TESTER’S NOTE
The instruments can be plain or have an outline like that of Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter. (Yes, only the most contemporary cultural references here at Autocar.) MP
If you think the good thing about the BMW iX is that you can’t see how weird it looks from inside it, then you should see inside it. BMW’s third BEV (after the i3 and iX3) is a big SUV, nearly five metres long, two metres wide and 1.7 metres tall. Not too dissimilar to the X5, then, only more spacious inside.
It’s also more radical inside, and not always in such a bad way. There’s a huge screen across the dashboard centre, but the rotary infotainment controller remains, only now created from what looks like crystal glass and sited on a tall, wood-finished console.