There are not many cars in the world that say I made it better than a flagship luxury sedan They have the size and elegance that really draws attention which is exactly what BMW is doubling down on for 2020 of Course, we do want to take a moment to specially thank our friends at BMW of Cincinnati North for giving us access to this $112,000 7 Series and if you're in the market for any new BMW Be sure to stop by their dealership or visit them via their website, which we provided a link to in the video description.
So With that said, let's see if the Refresh 7 Series is the ultimate limo So starting off here on the outside this is where you'll notice the biggest changes for 2020 Most obviously of course is the enlarged grill which BMW says has grown by 40% Since the entire front end is now two inches taller This definitely makes for a more eye-catching look than before which only grows if you opt for the in sport design and Furthermore if you choose the fully blacked out option As far as the headlights they've actually gone the opposite way and slimmed down Plus the running light design has been updated to the squared off look like in the x7 Moving on to the side since the US only gets the long wheelbase version they will all be over 17 feet long and Then as far as the back the updates are fairly subtle with really sleek new LED tail lights and larger trapezoidal exhaust outlets Of course just like in the front going with the M Sport will make the lower areas more aggressive It is also worth mentioning that even though this is the plug-in electric version it still has the same styling as the other models But overall BMW took a page from rolls-royce and made the 7 Series more attention-grabbing in addition to its already stately design Now heading up to the wheels our model stays on the more conservative side of things with these optional 19-inch alloys But of course you can get contrast alloys on the M Sport models As expected for the mirrors, they are fully loaded with heating auto-dimming power folding and blind spot monitoring and Then as far as all your other safety systems, it has all the latest and greatest as you would expect from the flagship auto pre-collision braking with pedestrian detection and rear cross traffic alert are included across the board and Then adding the driving assistance professional package gives you adaptive cruise control Lane keeping assist the ability to automatically steer around obstacles and a hands-free Autonomous driving system that works on highways up to 37 miles per hour These systems are right in line with what other flagships offer and Finally the last thing to look at is the fuel tank which is twenty point six gallons in most of the models Except for this plug-in which has a twelve point one gallon tank That means the range of this car is 282 miles including the 16 miles a full electric range and Of course, it does request premium unleaded fuel Well guys that's it for the outside so now let's get to the part you really want to see the elaborate executive interior So, of course as you would expect every 2020 7 series does come standard with BMWs intelligent entry system You have their standard key fob however, its upgraded a little bit versus the cheaper models since the buttons themselves are metals as well as all the sides a Remote start is available optionally as well Now as far as getting inside the vehicle, it's very simple You just reach for handles since there's a sensor and when you do the power mirrors All right, so checking out the cabin of the refresh 2020 7-series as you can tell right off the bat. It really makes a strong first impression now, of course a big part of being a flagship is having exactly what you want and indeed you can customize this interior to have Exactly what you want So when you start out on the base model, you're gonna start with Dakota real leather in black can be our beige ivory Mocha or cognac Or like this model here.
You can upgrade to the quilted nappa leather that comes in these same colors Except for an extra is that zegora beige But that's not all there's still another package called the individual merino leather that's the highest tier of leather And that comes in its own set of colors are maroon Brown, Fiona red, smoke white, cashmere Black and tartufo so definitely some exotic ones up in there and then finally you do have eight different wood trims to choose from I'm not gonna list them all out, but I will Specifically mention the new American dark oak and grey popular options for 2020 Now turning over here to your door trim, obviously it is absolutely stunning you have leather across all the armrests as well as above it and across the very top of the door trim and We do have the real wood through here as well as full aluminum door handle Obviously all four of our windows are one touch automatic and then down here below You will find your two-person memory seating as well as the buttons to activate the massaging functions Can we tennis seed itself it is 20 way power adjusting across the board You do have the massaging which I already mentioned as an option But all of them come with the four-way lumbar support the adjusting bolsters as well as the power thigh extension And like I already mentioned this is the napa leather Definitely feels very nice.
You do have the quilted design which comes all the way through here and down and Definitely looks and feels very stunning Of course like many flagship vehicles you do have soft closing doors that you know to close the door all the way You'll pull it closed for you Now as far as the actual design things have not changed too much for 2020 so that means you do continue to have phenomenal materials So across even the extreme upper part of the - you do have real leather with a really nice color contrast stitching And then when you come down to the middle, you got more real wood trim and some aluminum trim as well Even these lower areas here are also leather padded with stitching and way down here is also well They're padded along where your knees will touch And of course as you would expect everything does fit together, very very well Of course you do out push-button start And when you press it, you will see the standard twelve point three inch display fire up Of course that's the unique thing about having the electric version is that when you fire up you don't actually have the engine start Now as far as the gauges over here, of course, this is the latest and greatest BMW twelve point three inch live cockpit pro system.
It is fully reconfigurable so you can Just press on this little button on the end here and switch through different types of information and when you change your drive modes additionally the whole design can I Do want to also mention that little sensor up there at the top That's actually monitoring to make sure you're alert when the autonomous driving systems are active As far as the flashing you're seeing on the camera right now, that's an effect of the cameras frame rate It doesn't actually do that in real life Also when you offer the premium package You will find a head-up display And if you use the button on the steering wheel You can go and activate all the extra buttons over here and you can kind of cycle through different functions as well Now coming back to the steering wheel of course all models do have electric power assisted steering with a beautiful leather wrap steering wheel There is a difference between the luxury and M Sport models So you get the M steering wheel, of course on the M sports versus this luxury model with 4 spokes As far as all the buttons, they are fully made of aluminum So you get your adaptive cruise control buttons and safety systems over here And then on this side, you've got your audio phone and voice command buttons You will always find rain sensing wipers on every 7 Series as well As far as the steering wheel itself there will always be power adjusting as well as standard heating however, when you go for the rear luxury seating package that's going to actually throw and heat it armrest as well in the front and in the back Now moving on to interior storage you do have plenty as you would expect from a pretty big sedan like this So starting out with your center console, you can just open it up like that. And as you can see it is fairly large Nicely felt lined you do have a little removable tray down here at the bottom And you will also find your 12-volt outlet as well as your USB type-c port Off in the front here, you've got some more storage so you can just slide back this wood it slides back in two different stages so you can slide back for just the cupholders or you can keep pushing back to reveal the Wireless phone charger now for 2020.
This has now been relocated up here to a more convenient place Now coming back to your shifter, of course the 7 series does have the typical BMW shifter However, since we have the executive package You'll actually notice they are finished in a ceramic finish for both the shifter as well as the control knob But as far as the actual operation it is totally unaltered So you just press the unlock button right here and pull back for Drive and then you can bump over here to the left Um, mainly with the right from this stick here or via the paddle shifters Which are present even here on the plug-in electric model And then for reverse you're going to go up the opposite direction And when you do you will notice the standard 360 degree camera system fire up As you can see you have both the traditional view as well as a 360 degree view But the coolest feature is when you press here and you get the 3d view you will go into a 3d view of the entire car and you can just use your little control knob to basically go all around the vehicle in every direction and kind of see it as If you were a drone or something floating above it and definitely gives you a really cool perspective So there's no excuse to ever back into anything inside of the 7 Series Then for park, you're just going to press the P up top Now as far as all the buttons down here around these shifter You will see will have some redesign modes down here for 2020 so you've got a sport mode a hybrid mode and you also have an electric mode to lock the Plug-in here into only electric until it finishes Depleting the battery.
You also have an adaptive mode which will just adapt based on how you're driving as well as different environmental factors And then back a little bit more you have another button right here This goes to battery control and this is a feature that allows you to control the battery a lot better than last year, so Basically, what you can now do is you can select a certain percent that you want to keep the battery yet So say right now we're in a hundred percent charge But when I get to seventy I want the engine to go ahead and turn on so I keep that 70 percent for another occasion So this will just be able to keep that battery in the desired range And then you have a few extra buttons as well as for your suspension and then your electronic parking brake and brake hold feature Now moving on up here we have our standard four zone automatic climate controls As you can see it's kind of a unique mixture of both physical and digital Controls so all these buttons right here are actually touch sensitive so you can just go up on them There is still like little ridges in it So you can actually feel them physically but it is a touch sensitive touch screen. You can see that change right up there That's pretty cool additionally, we have this optional feature cook with the air ambience package and What this does is just give us a fragrance system So we don't have the cartridges actually installed right now, but she would be able to choose between two different scents and then different types strengths of those scents And then finally right here you will find the standard three stage seat heating And then if you go for the executive package you will also have three stage seat ventilation But anyways now that brings us up here to our audio system The standard system is a 600 watt 16 speaker Harman Kardon sound system. That's what we have However, if you're a really huge audiophile There's a fourteen hundred watt 16 speaker Bower and Wilkins diamond series audio system available But let's go ahead and sample this standard audio system We do also have gesture controls on board so we can Yeah, this may be the standard sound system but it definitely does not sound basic But anyways that now brings us up here to our brand new I Drive southern point in the system Let's go ahead and take a quick look So this is the brand new version of I Drive called I Drive 7.0 So start out with one of the big features of this system is that it can be controlled in several different ways now in addition to your regular Controller knob which a BMW have always had You now have the ability to control via a touchscreen.
So it's now a touchscreen up here Now you also have the ability to use voice commands So as far as the software itself, we'll start out with our home screens You now have up to ten reconfigurable home screen. So each of these you can choose What type of things to fill in for your tiles Now moving beyond that you have several shortcut buttons down here on the side. This represents the main sections of the iDrive system However, most importantly Apple carplay is on board for every vehicle of iDrive 7.0 It's the wireless apple carplay in this specific car That's free for one year. However, there is no Android auto at this time Now moving on up of course as you would expect we do have an auto dimming mirror with 3 Homelink Universal remotes built into the bottom of it and We do also have a dual panel panoramic moonroof as standard equipment as well that's a little hard to see but We actually have the what's called the sky lounge system. It basically has these little points that light up with light at night And kind of look like stars in the sky and that's it comes through the executive package But overall, I have to say the cabin of the 2020 7 series is simply stunning I mean when it comes to these flagship vehicles it it's hard to think of anything else. You could possibly want I mean absolutely everything is stuffed into this cabin. It's beautifully executed with materials and finishes And it is something that's going to really wow you and impress anybody that's with But anyways now go ahead and hand it off to Mason who will check out all the very important rear areas All righty, so let's go ahead and check out the rear seat of the 2020 BMW 7-series Now this is one of the biggest features of this model because it obviously has tons of space Its technical rating is forty four point four inches of rear legroom and thirty-nine inches of rear headroom which obviously is a massive amount of space and it's even bigger than a lot of its rivals like the Mercedes S Class and Lexus LS Now turning over here to the door trim it is of course beautifully designed as you would expect out of a flagship So it is covered with leather from head-to-toe so you have a Completely leather wrapped armrest all through here and it is even leather wrapped here on the top portion Now down to below that you will notice some of your features.
So this is a pop-out ashtray and Below that you have your window switch, which is a fully automatic of course as well as both of your paragraph sunshade controls, these are actually included in the Premium Package and Further below that you have your rear window sunshade as well and further below that you will notice that we do have some door storage and you will even notice that there is two person memory seats here in the rear as well as a Massaging function since we have the luxury rear seating package Now turning over to the seats themselves, of course, they are a beautiful design you have this quilted Beautiful leather and it is extremely soft and supple as you would expect Now in terms of features, of course the 7 series is going to have a boatload of them So we'll start out with the ones here in the center area Now, of course you will have rear air vent standard across all models and it is also here on your B pillar as well Now coming down, of course, you do also have your own climate controls so I have to do is push the automatic button and It will fire up and you have all four zones of adjustment So each where passenger back here can have their own adjusted temperature fan speed and zone Now further below that you will also find the three-stage ventilated and three-stage heated rear seats Which are on the executive or in the luxury rear seat package? now down below that you will even find another storage area and if you push this You will find a 12-volt power outlet as well as two USB ports. These are actually the type C charging USB ports And turning over here to the center Console area here this does drop down with a ton of features because our model does have the luxury rear seating package Which was what I was talking about earlier Now, of course, you will notice that you do have a really nice and large armrest here It is leather wrapped and there is some storage inside that is felt lined Now the biggest feature about that luxury rear seat package.
I keep mentioning is the addition of the 7-inch tablet So basically, this is like what you've seen in probably other Large luxury vehicles like the Audi a8 and Lexus LS and basically it's a tablet that controls all of the rear features back here so basically if you want to turn it on you push this little power button and It will turn on and it is worth noting that you can also checked the tablet so this is one of the benefits of having the tablet as opposed to regular screen because you can control it out here and Each rear pass and you just pass it along and have them adjust their things So it doesn't necessarily have to be in the center console Now in front of that you do have pop-out cupholders and Beside that you will also find your power adjustment, which is also included in that package So each wear seat back here has their own adjustments so you can really adjust any and every seating configuration You could ever want you even like I mentioned you do also have the massaging functions as was reclining.
Now up top we do have a gorgeous headliner it is covered in beautiful Alcantara as well as a panoramic moonroof And in front of that, we do have a vanity mirror with an LED light and Also as a part of the interior design package Our model has these would assist grips as well as the coat hook and some LED lighting back here And I do want to take a moment to mention the executive lounge seating package, which is available But our model does not have it and basically what this adds is the extra level of rear opulence So it will give the deceit here it will give it full Reclining abilities so you can have a pop-out recliner come up And it also has pop-out folding tables. So if you need to get work done This is your option Now I do also want to mention here in the floor. We do have some additional headrest So if you don't find these which they're already really super comfortable But if you don't find them comfortable enough to take a nap You can really just snap this extra headrest on and it adds services basically a built-in pillow for you Now in addition to that you may notice that our model does not have the tablet screens integrated into the back and that is because that is also in that executive lounge package and basically that would add to Dual tinge tablet screens for the back for your rear seat entertainment And of course in terms of space this car has nothing to complain about so behind ruse in position I have about a foot maybe two feet of space between my knees in the seat back and of course my feet can easily slide up under the seat and that Is partially due to this vehicle being only available in the long wheelbase form now So this is as long as it's going to get 45 inches of rear legroom is a ton of space But overall, I am extremely impressed by the 7 Series receipt I had a lot and very high Expectations going into it because this is a flagship vehicle And I still leave very impressed because this car has a ton of features back here these seats are extremely comfortable and I really think that it's going to Satisfy the needs of any owner that they could ever have Now coming around to the trunk, of course it is power So I have to do is locate the button under the lid and it will open right up Now let's inside of the 7 series trunk you will find 18.2 cubic feet on the irregular models. However, you will notice that on this electric model The floor is actually flat back here because the needed room for the electric components So basically it is reduced to fourteen point eight cubic feet now with that said that is still larger than a lot of the rivals like the Audi a8 and BMW was nice enough to give you a new storage under the floor as well So you have a little storage area down here as well as some cubbies over here I'm coming over to the passenger seat Of course, it is a lovely lovely design and it is also 22 Way power adjusting on this model It's the same way adjustments as the drivers and of course you do have massaging on this side as well now Coming over to this side. You will find that you also have two-person memory just like the rear seats and the driver's seat Now, of course in front of the passenger do have opulent materials to have a leather padded dashboard someone going through that and down below This we have a good-sized glovebox.
That is nicely felt line And of course your glovebox is also leather wrapped and it's all the way leather wrapped all the way down here as you would expect Well, anyway, that sums up all the opulent rear areas of the Refresh 2020 7 series So let's go ahead and get on the road and see how this plug-in electric performs All right, so now we'll go ahead and talk about this cars power trains Now there are three different options. There's the 40i the 50i and this 745e So you gotta start with the turbo inline six in the forty. I Then for the 50, I you go to a turbo v8 Um, however, of course we have the electric one. So I'll focus on that for 2020 and what BMW has done they've actually They've upgraded all the system components and they've also switched the engine out from a turbo four-cylinder to a smoother more powerful turbo inline six So altogether this car produces 389 horsepower and 442 pound-feet of torque, which is 67 more horsepower total than last year.
So definitely a big benefit there At the same time they have a higher capacity a lithium-ion battery pack onboard And that's now good for an extended range of 16 miles So you can run around a full electric driving for 16 miles and then you switch over to the gas-powered engine As far as the transmission you do have an 8-speed automatic transmission And standard all-wheel drive on this electric model and 0-60 is actually 4.9 seconds, which is of course very fast for a big limo like this And it's also just as fast as the 40 I so the electric components don't slow it down and then finally for your fuel economy, this is rated at 56 mpg E, which is the EPA's way of rating at hybrid electric vehicles But as far as on the gas engine only that's gonna be 22 Combined for the mileage for when you're driving on just the gas engine Definitely fascinated to see how this will drive. So let's go ahead and take it on quick spin All right, so taking off in the plug-in electric seven series Definitely a unique sensation compared to the gas power model because everything is completely silent It also really it takes off quite Well that instantaneous electric torque really feels good You can just kind of feel that that punch back and you see as soon as you start to roll on to the throttle All right, so as far as your pricing this car comes in several different versions, of course so with your 40 I 740i that's going to be eighty six thousand four hundred fifty dollars your next option up the rung is going to be this model of forty five e That starts at ninety five thousand five hundred fifty dollars are just going to standard with all wheel drive The next thing up the rung is your v8 powered 750i that's gonna start at one hundred and two thousand six fifty and Then finally the top-of-the-line model II the M 760 I that's powered by a v12 And that starts at an absolutely ridiculous one hundred fifty seven thousand seven hundred dollars So as you can see There is a really large range that this model can be equipped in now as with all BMWs You customize things basically to your liking all the cart. So on this specific model We have the drivers assistance pro package the interior design package luxury rear seating package Premium Package executive package We have the interior design package 19-inch wheels Ambient air package front massaging seats and Then finally the destination charge of nine ninety five for a total of one hundred twelve thousand ninety five dollars Which of course is a ton of money But also pretty much right in line with all the competition Well guys we've enjoyed watching one of the first in-depth looks at the 2020 BMW 745e iPerformance! Please hit those like and subscribe buttons if you haven't already and we'll catch you next time There's a sample more of the latest automotive delicacies!
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