 BMW should send this car back to 
Microsoft. The i-drive is worthless. 
In theory, it is a good idea, but in 
practice it sucks. Do you know you 
can't listen to the radio in the car 
when parked for more than 15 minutes? 
The whole computer system has to stay 
on and it drains the battery. The CD 
has almost no functionallity. It 
forgets where it was the last time you 
had it on everytime. The voice 
recognition is useless as it takes so 
long to do anything. The navigation 
system takes you to the wrong address 
by making bad assumptions (and not 
telling you about it). Overall, it is 
a disaster and I will never touch a 
BMW again. (I bought this model when 
it came out and have suffered with it 
for 3 years.)