Nickname: Mrrm

Review: On the presentation of the new Audi, BW has stated that BMW had nothing to show against Audi. I think it's completly the other way around. Where is Audi F1 car, or motorbike, or Ivetta, or 400hp Roadster, or everything you state in this article? Besides, there is BMW's hydrogen leap into the future, and Audi is about 20 years behind on that. My family has had 4 Audis (two A3, 1A4 and 1 A6) and their official service is a disaster area. We have switched onto another make, guess who? MMartins-Portugal

Date reviewed: Oct 7, 2006 2:22 PM

Nickname: Tuomas

Review: iDrive would be an excellent idea in an airplane (and many have), but in an airplane you have an autopilot flying most of time and pilot is a backup. In cars there are no autopilots and when you are driving 130 mph on the German autobahn, you have your hands full without iDrive, which incidentally has 0 functions on main menu, just more menus. So when you don't have time to browse menus up and down, there's 0 functions available. Brilliant. You could use conventional buttons and adjustments by hand, without looking, but there aren't any. Tough. Brilliant concepts out of their context are often very questionable. When a task requires three sub-menus, each consisting of eight choices and there you have +/- -adjustment by two buttons, you have to look at least four times and once by every adjustment on top of that. With conventional adjustment knob it's just a look and twist of the wrist, angle tells you the amount of adjustment done. Fast, ergonomic, and safe.

Date reviewed: Oct 7, 2006 3:08 AM