The sensation is totally immersive and off the charts. Next off, you’ll want to use the rear-seat individual touchscreen controller built into each armrest (it looks a lot like the latest iPhone) to lower the 8K widescreen and be dazzled by its 7680 x 2160 pixel display and incomparable surround sound via 35 Bowers & Wilkins speakers in both seats and headrests. It’s next level and not unlike that offered in the new Bentley Bentayga EWB. They’re also the perfect accompaniment to the optional Connoisseur Lounge, which affords the left-hand-side rear passenger first-class-style stretched seating complete with footrest and reclined seat back. It’s also a bone-fide corner crusher too, thanks to new 48-volt active anti-roll bars (12-volt in its predecessor) – that magically counters any-and-all body roll – and that’s in the canyons! You won’t believe this big Beamer tips the scales at a colossal 2715 kilograms (with driver) – it just can’t be. It’s got adaptive air suspension to sort out the bumps and keep all four paws grounded, while all-wheel steering straightens out the corners, despite its size and heft. But, not at the expense of on-road comfort – that alone deserves applause. Then there’s the suite of engineering solutions centred around the upgraded chassis, which somehow makes this cruise ship on wheels perform more like a seriously-sorted grand tourer, but with even more linearity and feedback than you get from equivalent combustion-engined 7 Series. Offsetting the deep front and rear-end treatments is a sleeker, more elegant side profile with flush door handles and an integrated Hofmeister Kink.Įven though the door panels seem large, the glasshouse itself (bar the back window) is sufficiently large to afford the driver plenty of all-round vision. No longer will there be long- and short- wheelbase versions available, either, just long.īMW Australia will launch two variants only: the 740i with 48-volt mild-hybrid (MHEV) technology paired with a twin-turbo petrol six, along with the fully-electric i7 xDrive60 flagship with dual motors tested here, in Frozen Deep Grey. It’s a huge car stretching nearly 5.4 metres in length – longer than a Rolls-Royce Cullinan – as well as standing wider and higher than the previous long-wheelbase 7 Series, and by some margin. Just as BMW shook up the executive-class sedan world with its first iteration of the 7 Series more than 45 years ago as a properly sporty lux-mobile, chock full of state-of-the-art tech, the new range-topping i7 might just blow everything else out of the water – and then some. The new seventh-generation BMW 7 Series isn’t just one of the most striking cars we’ve seen in decades, it’s also a bona-fide tech-fest with all the makings of a headline act at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
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