Comments by "Umar Khan" (@umaralikha) on "New BMW 7 Series - our guide to its seven key features." video.

  1. thoravian Does it matter that he can't afford it? Everyone is free to give their opinion. Can you afford a S Class or this 7 Series?
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  2. jamviator How did Mercedes steal ambient lighting from BMW? It was available in 2005. Correct me if I'm wrong but which BMW had ambient lighting before 2005. BMW also copied citroen then. I can also give you a list of features that the 7 Series has taken from the S Class. One major one is MB Body Control.
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  3. Not sure if you're talking to me but I'll reply with my views. I never thought the 7 series interior was shit. You can view in another comment I really like both of them. It depends what style you like. One if simplistic while the other is futuristic. There's been innovations on the s class that were then put on the 7 series and vice versa. I don't mind if people prefer the 7 series but when they claim the s class is shit or you can make the s class screens for $25, that's when I'd reply. If I was looking for a luxurious driver focused car I would have got a 7 series but I'd prefer a passenger focused one for my family so I got a S Class. Hope you understand my points.
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  4. keanehgz Some parts do, but from a 7 series not a 1 series.
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  5. J0lker They've owned 7 Series/BMWs for pretty much their whole lives. What do you expect their opinion to be? I also doubt they have tested the S Class, but they focus on driving dynamics whereas the S Class focuses on the passenger.
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  6. thoravian Magic Body Control, as well as Distronic Plus...
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  7. Car mad Show me where you can do that on public roads. The 7 Series is a drivers car, the S Class is the passengers car.
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  8. swunt10 Why do you need a lighter car if it was built for luxury. The amount of features to do with luxury is what puts one ahead of another between these two cars
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  9. Which is a drivers car...
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  10. swunt10 Rides better? It needs features such as the S Class' suspension and magic body control. My S Class went from 25MPG in the 2006 model to 52MPG in the 2014 model. Thats what you call losing less fuel. Mercedes already has tons of technology to avoid impact, and these cars aren't driver cars.
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  11. It would be the RR Ghost competitor, which I'm not sure is what BMW is looking for. The 8 Series would also interfere with the RR Wraith so once again not sure if it's a move they wish to make.
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  12. The only problem with it, is that it will be a BMW. That's also the reason the S Class has been outselling the 7 Series in the past between the new 7 Series being released and the new S Class being released. I thought that was the reason they use Rolls Royce, since it has a better brand image.
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  13. Not really, everyone knows the S Class is a high luxury vehicle. BMW is common as well you know, with most being 3/5 series on lease as the 5 series leases are cheap. The 9 Series would affect Rolls Royce Wraith, as most people know they would be the same platform e.t.c. Bentleys technology is ancient, the only thing to help it is that it is called Bentley.
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  14. Its common since everyone knows they are high luxury vehicles, and how good they are, as well as the image they portray. The 5 Series is under £400 a month so not sure what their leasing strategy is.
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  15. jamviator What has that got to do with the 7 Series or S Class? The Ford 999cc Ecoboost engine won for 3 years in a row, doesn't mean I'd prefer it over a 4.0 V8 found in the old M3, or the 6.2 V8 found in the old C63.
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  16. Which has a lot to do with the latest ones being under 4 litres. Anyway, go ahead, thought it was a sly remark to me.
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  17. ***** I'm used to other BMW fans(The guy whose called AMG M) and 2 others always trying to make sly remarks against me and the Steven guy which really proves they are trolls, which then makes me think that a lot of people do it.  Also, I wish to see a BMW M4 with a V8 twin turbo with about 550hp, due to it being so light, that's what I'd call a good, fun car.
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  18. Club Bmw Amg Which is what the M5 was meant for, not the 7 Series or S Class which were meant for comfort.
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  19. Why'd you think that?
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  20. Why'd you think that?
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  21. ***** This car ahs those lights you know...
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  22. Wow, it is blatantly that you don't know anything about the S Class! The ambient lighting has 5 brightness settings, as I'm sure this does too. Those screens are similar to what you can find on a Lamborghini, and are a lot better, meaning more functions e.t.c, compared to this.
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  23. Reminds me of a Lamborghini? I never mentioned that it reminded me of it, I said that Lamborghini has a similar type of thing which no one says anything against. The thing is, the only people who negative things about the dashboard are people who don't have a S Class, these screens allow for a much better experience, and easier access to features which can't be done on an analogue display.
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  24. It's not like it would be cheaper to use an analogue display from the older s class, or the C Class, is it? This display has a lot more features compared to analogue ones, such as displaying night vision, lane assist, how far away you are from the car in front, decide between kmh and mph, parking, and many more features. All of which aren't available in the same detail on an analogue display.
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  25. They can make a revised model from the old analogue display. They can copy the A Class/B/C/CLA/CLS/E/G/GL/ML/Viano/SLS/AMG GT or any of their other models. It would cost less to enlargen it to follow the pattern, but to make it unique they made it like this. They don't cost $25 each, you haven't opened up a S Class before so I don't think it is suitable for you to reply. I do work in IT, and after taking it out it is a lot more complex than buying a tablet from China and programming it. No car similar to this has night vision on the dashboard, parking cameras visible, km/h to mph, active lane assist, distance between the car in front and more. Once again, try opening up the dashboard before commenting, calling it a $25 screen. Edit : Everyone has an opinion, but I don't see S Class owners complaining..
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  26. If they wanted an analogue display, they COULD HAVE done that if they wanted to, which would have been cheaper. Otherwise, the C Class would have this screen. SMH, you think it costs $25 yet you have no real life experience with it, let alone opening it up and seeing all of what it does/what it is connected to.
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  27. No, to make it futuristic which is also seen on Audis, Lamborghini and BMWs, just not this BMW. I don't see your criticizing the i8s display. It's not too expensive to enlarge a design already made on the computer. It is expensive to develop a whole new design without a template. When do you look at it sideways? Spread out? Are you forgetting that one of the screens is the infotainment system, while the other one is the speedometer. There is no problem viewing the speedometer while driving, it appears that you're the only person who has this problem, despite not having a S Class. Once again, you have no knowledge of inside of the S Class, which I have gained in my quest to install multiple features I doubt you would even know how to install.
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  28. It's not spread out. I've been driving a 222 S Class for a year in a few days. I know they aren't spread out, I can see them all in one look, which may be seen in the video I uploaded. If you still believe it is $25, I'd give you $25 to get me a screen like that which includes the speedometer, tachometer, night vision, lane assist, distance from the car in front, ability to change radio station, mph to kmh, the rest of the features which are currently on it, and Brabus on it. 
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  29. I'll give you $100 to go try make it then. Everything connected to it costs more, due to the equipment needed to connect it to the radar, parking cameras, to the actual car so you can measure the speed and more. It's obvious that a) you haven't been inside/drove a S Class b) you don't know IT costs. This is because they aren't too far away, they're the same distance as in my A4, A3, my old 320D, my old S320, the M5 I borrowed e.t.c.
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  30. Then build it for $100 and I'll believe you.
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  31. Club Bmw Amg Seriously? What is +1ing your own comments going to show? Immaturity? The iPad doesn't tell you how far away from the car in front you are, it doesn't go from km/h to mp/h, it won't assist you with parking, it doesn't show night vision, it isn't a HUD, and it can't me connected to the car, which is what is needed for most of the points above. For the 100th time, you have NO real life experience with this car, so don't make up this BS in your head that you can build the dashboard.
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  32. You don't own a S Class, you haven't stripped open a S Class. The technology clearly isn't from the old S Class, as this has more new features. How hard is it to understand that they need to create an OS sort of thing. You might as well say it cost $1000 in total for rnd on a PlayStation. You're using knowledge you think you have, but you've been proved wrong yet you can't understand it. You are saying rubbish about a car you've never drove.
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  33. You are calling me delirious? You don't own a W222. You don't own a W221. You haven't drove either. Your lies are so stupid, it actually makes me want to laugh. You still haven't made it for $100 so I disregard your opinion. Sensors, Distronic Plus with Steering Assist, BAS Plus with Cross Traffic Assist, Pre Safe with Pedestrian Detection, Adaptive High Beam Assist Plus, Night View Assist Plus, Traffic Sign Assist, Full LED, Active Parking Assist, Direct Steer Electromechanical steering and a whole lot more.
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  34. I've confirmed you have zero knowledge of the car and it's electronics. I've listed all the new technologies and they are integrated so you can use then in the dashboard. You have no real life use of the s class so stop acting like you do.
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  35. No it's not. Stop +1ing your own comments to make it seem like people agree with you. It's not from the old S Class, everyone except you knows that. Ask any W222 S Class owner who has owned a 221, I've had both and no, they aren't the same. The S Class has had a lot of technological improvements. You failed to make the screen with all the attachments and OS for $100, let alone $25.
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  36. cockshield Only people with insecurities would doubt their purchase.
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  37. So you can't afford either, is what you're telling me.
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  38. thoravian No wonder you probably can't afford it, you struggle to understand a quote from BMW's brand, which was what those 25 lines were.
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  39. Yes, I own a Nex-5N with 18-55 lenses as well as 55-210. Yet again, another BMW fan who struggles to understand things. A BMW fan such as +UzzyFuzzy​ manages to understand that the quote was from BMWs website, showing what the Dynamic Driving feature is. He has also verified my car through my Mercedes, BMW and Audi forum account, with my Mercedes one showing the process of being the first to retrofit Burmester 3D.
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  40. keanehgz The Rolls Royce interface is practically a BMW one with different logos. Basically the same as the Audi A4 interface in the Lamborghini Aventador.
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  41. Sometimes it should be necessary to create different software systems. In the case of BMW and Mini, its alright but I think they should have a different one for RR and BMW.
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  42. keanehgz I mean the infotainment system, not the rest of the technology. If I have a rolls royce I don't want similar technology to what you can find in a 7 series or similar to a 3 series.
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  43. keanehgz So that the owners don't feel like they can find the same system in a BMW 3 Series. If they want to use the same system, at least fully reskin it.
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  44. But you can tell its a BMW system. I've test drove a wraith with a friend. Its fantastic car but only negative thing is around 10% is BMW.
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  45. keanehgz I agree with the bottom two points but I believe that cars shouldn't have the same parts if they are two brands even if they're owned by the same company. Its just my opinion but I buy a car from a different brand to not be the same as a car from another brand. Not so I can have renamed parts.
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  46. I understand those parts, I'm talking about simple things such as gear stalks and even infotainment systems. If they're ready getting at least 100% profit on a car I expect them to at least make it hard to differentiate parts between brands.
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  47. Those are the things what I am talking about. I don't want things from a car made in 2002 by BMW in a 2015 car costing £300,000+.
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  48. Club Bmw Amg In what way???
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  49. I mean the S Coupe looking like a honda accord.
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  50. Club Bmw Amg It does, just to you and a minority it doesn't.
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  51. Club Bmw Amg http://image.motortrend.com/f/roadtests/coupes/1412_2015_mercedes_benz_s63_amg_coupe_second_drive/68323771/2015-mercedes-benz-s63-amg-4matic-coupe-front-three-quarter.jpg http://www.forcegt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2014-Mercedes-Benz-C-Class-front.jpg The only way it looks similar is the light shape, which is a lot smaller on the S Class. Not sure how you managed to think it was a C Class. You claimed the rear looked like another car, which is not the case unless you're not wearing glasses with a prescription of -4 on both eyes.
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  52. You are the only one who has that opinion. Is a coupe meant to be longer than the equivalent sedan now?
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  53. Club Bmw Amg Look at the Rolls Royce Wraith and the Bentley Continental GT before saying that crap on a luxury sedan. I can officially say you've never seen these cars in reality as those views can only be made online, not when you see them in real life.
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  54. Still shorter than their sedan. You haven't seen or sat in either so I won't blame your opinion.
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  55. RR = 2x Luxury + 0.5-1x Driver S Class = 1-1.5x Luxury + 0.75-1.5x Driver 7 Series = 0.75-1.25x Luxury + 1-2x Driver 2 being highest and 0 being lowest
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  56. Samson Okoro I mean in between models. Would you rather drive a Rolls Royce Phantom or a Mercedes S63/S65? For driver dynamics it would be the S63/65. S63 over Ghost. S65 over Phantom.
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  57. Samson Okoro​ You can't deny, top luxury for this price is CURRENTLY the S Class. I mean in RR Phantom/Ghost vs Mercedes S63/65 I would much rather prefer to drive the Mercedes as the RR is much longer. If I was lying in the back its phantom over S65.
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  58. This new 7 series is changing that. Its for luxury aspects but it is turning into a drivers car.
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  59. I don't understand what you're saying. The S Class has always been seen as the more executive, and luxurious car in the eyes of chauffeur's and reviewers who use opinions of people who own the car. The 7 Series has pretty much been the drivers vehicle while the s class was the passengers.
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  60. Yusif Aliyev We're talking about full ambient lighting that can change color and brightness, not an orange led strip.
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  61. Samson Okoro The S Class had it since 2006, I had it on my 56 plate. http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w221-s-class/1312404-ambient-lighting-mounting.html If you wish to talk about the other ambient lighting, such as what Yusif was talking about, the generation before the 221 had it : http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=90091
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  62. jamviator The S Class didn't have colour changing lights before 2002, neither did BMW. The W220 had "ambient lighting", if you want the one which didn't change colour. They've already overtaken BMW in the large luxury sedan sector. Overtaken? BMW never were the leaders of the large luxury sedan sector. The S Class is and always has been the leader of its segment. Samson Okoro I never said that every top of the line car doesn't have it. Jamviator said the BMW had it first, which they didn't. Also not sure how the jaguar was the "template" for the S Class? It's pretty much the same as the 221. Mercedes doesn't have lighting inside the air vents. The only differences from the 221 is that it's around the screen and the floor. http://www.germancarforum.com/attachments/gtspirit-mercedes-s500-0034-jpg.19464/ http://www.mercedes-benz.com.lk/content/media_library/hq/hq_mpc_reference_site/passenger_cars_ng/new_cars/models/s-class/_w221/facts/04_2011/comfort/interior/s-class_wv221_facts_comfort_interior_715x230_04-2011_jpg.object-Single-MEDIA.tmp/s-class_wv221_facts_comfort_interior_715x230_04-2011.jpg
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  63. Can you send me a picture as the only picture of the interior lighting system that I can find is this : http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zEkoxPcha_s/maxresdefault.jpg I can tell you right now that the S Class has in no way copied the ambient lighting from that picture.
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  64. jamviator  I was talking about ambient lighting, being the one which could change colour and brightness as seen in cars today. It appears the W221 S Class beat the 7 Series to that. If you just wish to have a light in a colour, the S Class had that before 2002, I've posted a thread for a 2001 S Class, as I don't have the time to search for a previous date, which has the same feature showing that Mercedes had it before. It was available starting from 1998 on Mercedes S Class W220.  Nearly every brand has copied another brand in one way or another. If that wasn't the case, most cars wouldn't have speaker systems, infotainment systems, turbos, leds or most other things you find inside your car on a daily basis.
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  65. I said it like 20 comments ago lol. Mercedes has some unique features that I love, but so does the next 7 series.
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  66. thoravian "Dynamic Drive. Supreme agility, unwavering stability and unmatched comfort on bends: the active chassis control system Dynamic Drive minimises body roll and distributes it between both axles, ensuring a comfortable ride for all occupants. Dynamic Drive uses active stabilisers on the front and rear axles to counteract the vehicle's tendency to roll in a corner. Working together with acceleration and position sensors, a management system and other components, such as a compensation tank for sound control, the system ensures supreme agility at all speeds, balanced reactions to load changes and remarkably precise steering. The stabilisers continually adapt to suit the driving situation and the changes to the vehicle's self-steering behaviour. For example, when driving on the straight, Dynamic Drive reduces the pressure of the stabilisers, treating them individually, so allowing for a highly comfortable ride - a particular benefit for rear-seat passengers. When cornering or making sudden changes of direction, a "sportier" setting will see the stabilisers increase the rigidity of the suspension relevant to the intensity of the lateral forces to prevent body roll. Roll distribution between the front and back axles also helps in difficult situations. Dynamic Drive ensures that the vehicle literally hugs the road, under- or oversteering is reduced - resulting in enhanced safety, greater comfort and an impressively dynamic driving experience." That's what BMW says Driving Dynamics is. Mercedes went one step further so as well as doing what it previously did, it has cameras which scan the road ahead and "tilt" or "lift" the body so you don't feel the bumps making it a comfortable ride. There is also curve assist, which does the same thing in the corners.
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  67. thoravian I wrote 4 lines. Do you know what copying and pasting is?
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  68. Yung Dro Like?
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