On April 20, Beijing time, BMW officially released the new BMW 7 Series and X7 Series large luxury car renewal lineup for the world's first time, of which the pure electric luxury car i7, as BMW's flagship new energy sedan, has received widespread attention from various media!
The BMW Group's forward-looking creativity redefines modern luxury, combining a subversive design language with an unrivaled luxury and digital technology to create a new BMW i7 series of pure electric luxury cars. As BMW's new flagship sedan, the i7 not only gives modern luxury a new interpretation, but also uses a new design language, selection of materials and technological configuration, in the spirit of excellence, people-oriented spirit, has achieved many breakthrough scientific and technological innovations.
Let's take a look at what surprises the new BMW i7 brings us
The seventh generation of BMW will be produced at the Dingefen plant in Germany, and the original vehicle will be imported into China for sale, and as a new energy model, the BMW i7 will also come to Chinese consumers as an imported car.
In terms of appearance, the BMW i7's body length, width and height are 5391mm * 1950mm * 1548mm, the wheelbase can reach 3215mm, the new car with its ultra-long wheelbase and wide and comfortable space performance is defined as a large luxury car.
The new car also offers BMW personalized two-color body, distinguished luxury, different!
In terms of the front face, the new BMW i7 still adopts a family-style double kidney shape grille, the difference is that the i7 grille adopts a closed shape, and each family reflects the identity of a new energy electric vehicle. The headlights adopt the BMW large luxury split headlight design, and the BMW crystal daytime running lights are matched with a larger BMW double kidney front grille, which looks majestic and dignified.
But after seeing the real car for the first time, I felt that the headlights were squinting, and the Xiaopeng P7 felt very similar.
Another noteworthy point is that the BMW i7 front grille, daytime running lights, welcome light blankets and interior mood lights will be lit in turn, giving the drivers and passengers a full sense of ceremony, reflecting the noble status of BMW 7 Series users.
From the side, the BMW i7 has a slightly raised front and is very sporty. The sleek silhouette extends from the slender front section to the rear, outlining an elegant atmosphere and sporty and flexible body posture.
The new BMW i7 still features the chrome-plated C-pillar Horns of the BMW family, and the rear windows are also decorated with matrix geometric dark patterns to ensure the privacy of the rear passengers. BMW i7 also uses blue logo decoration, you can find many new energy element decorations in the air intake lower book, side skirt, tail spoiler and other parts, fully highlighting the identity of new energy car owners.
The new BMW i7 adopts a newly designed door handle, the concave design can be realized by the button to open the door electrically, the real car experience is very easy to use.
The rear of the new BMW i7 has also been redesigned, and the layers are richer and more three-dimensional. Instead of using the more convenient through-type taillights, but equipped with 3D three-dimensional suspension LED taillights, slender and simple, the taillights are decorated with matrix geometric dark patterns on both sides, simple but not simple.
Xiaobian believes that the tail design of the BMW i7 is somewhat moderate, and personally feels that it is not as stunning as the front face, which may be considering that the 7 series is BMW's flagship sedan, it should look more solemn and calm.
The interior of the new BMW i7 can be said to have undergone a subversive change, not only with exquisite materials, but also with the "Shy Tech" invisible technology to create an unprecedented sense of comfort and luxury.
As soon as the driver opens the door, the first thing that attracts you is the BMW i7's new 12.3-inch LCD dashboard and 14.9-inch central control screen combined with a one-piece suspension curved screen and a wrap-around interactive light strip on the dashboard and door, due to the use of "Shy Tech" invisible technology, the physical buttons of the whole car are greatly reduced, replaced by voice control, touch and gesture operation, using exquisite light and shadow design and intelligent interaction system, allowing the driver to experience a refreshing sense of futuristic luxury.
For the configuration of the front row, Xiaobian has a small regret, that is, the new 7 series is not equipped with the most fashionable triple screen, and I feel that I still have some little care for the co-pilot.
As the new BMW i7 is equipped with the latest upgraded car-machine system, the data computing power and image processing capabilities have made great progress, more natural and smooth human-computer interaction, support continuous voice communication, more natural and more convenient.
In addition, the upgraded BMW intelligent personal assistant was applied for the first time in BMW's mass production model, and the new "double eyes" design made the intelligent personal assistance appear more anthropomorphic, 6 kinds of intelligent assistant expressions, support front and rear wake-up, open and close doors, activate seat massage and other more than 20 functions. 7 different vehicle theme modes, including comfort mode, joyful mode, digital art mode, cinema mode, sports and energy saving mode, to meet the personalized needs of different users.
For the first time, the new car offers a leather/cashmere combination interior with natural materials that are softer and more luxurious, with crystal-textured interior components, perforated wood trims and metallic materials to create a warm, natural and futuristic interior atmosphere.
If the cockpit of the new BMW i7 is a sci-fi futuristic style, then its rear is a premium comfort wind. First of all, the BMW i7 is equipped with an automatic opening and closing door, and the driver and occupants can open the door through buttons, voices, mobile phone APP, central control screens and keys, etc., which is convenient and comfortable. The panoramic canopy overhead of the carriage creates a spacious, comfortable interior space, and it is worth mentioning that different theme modes can be selected through the upgraded BMW iDrive and BMW OS 8.0, and the color of the LED light on the canopy can be controlled.
If the new BMW i7 is the most memorable, then Xiaobian thinks it must be the 31-inch suspension screen in the back of the cockpit with a resolution of 8k, think about the TV at home when I was a child, it was 29 inches, and now the TV in a car can be as big as 31 inches, which is really shocking. This screen can not only connect mobile phone projection screen, but also introduce iQiyi and Huawei app stores, not only can watch movies but also play games, rear passengers can switch to theater mode through the 5.5-inch armrest touch screen on the class, in the theater mode BMW i7's intelligent cockpit system will automatically open the sun blinds for passengers, adjust the ambient lighting, supplemented by Bowers & Wilkins 36 speaker sound system, to create an exclusive and honorable mobile private theater for rear passengers.
Finally, let's take a look at the power performance of BMW's new energy flagship sedan i7.
The innovative all-electric BMW i7 is equipped with the fifth-generation BMW eDrive electric drive system, which is expected to have a battery capacity of 101.7 kWh and the WLTC cruising range of more than 600 kilometers. As BMW's flagship new energy model, the BMW i7 is equipped with a dual motor drive, the maximum output power reaches 400 kW (544 hp), 0-100 acceleration takes only 4.7 seconds, and the minimum after 100 km can be 18.4 kWh.
At present, it is known that BMW i7 is equipped with L2 advanced driver assistance system and supports OTA upgrades, which can be upgraded to L3 level automatic driving assistance functions in the future with the permission of the policy.
summary:
The new BMW i7 conference has not yet announced the price of the vehicle, but it can be estimated that the benchmark model of BMW i7 will be Mercedes-Benz EQS, Tesla Model S, Xiaobian estimates that the price of the ordinary version of the model will be around 90-1.2 million, and the price of the performance version may reach 1.5 million. The target group is those high-income, want to experience pure electric luxury travel crowds, in fact, like BMW i7 or Mercedes-Benz EQS and other models, the pursuit of cost performance is not the first consideration, can not bring users a luxurious ride feeling, so that drivers and occupants experience the convenience and comfort of future technology is the most critical mission of such high-end luxury models.
Chiptzer, Chairman of the BMW Group, said: "Innovation is the strongest 7 series of the BMW i7 and the latest example of BMW's successful development and firm electrification transformation. "BMW as one of the leading enterprises of traditional cars, electrification transformation is imminent, but so far BMW has not yet owned its own pure electric platform, I have to say that BMW still needs to pay more efforts at this point!"