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Originally Posted by dougri
test drove the x5 the other day... vehicle had HUD option... was not aware of the option until the test drive and the salesperson did not expand on it... from what I have gathered, the HUD will display speed, nav (turn/dist-to-turn), cruise-control status (on/off) and briefly display when the CC speed is set/adjusted. There is a pic on the bmwusa page for the HUD that shows a pedestrian warning:
BMW X5 : Head-Up Display
Is this a Euro-version, future version, artist's rendering, or the currently shipping version? Is there any info I'm missing that is displayed on the currently shipping HUD for the X5 35i prem??? |
Kinda depends on which version of the HUD (ie car year model) you saw, and what features are available in your country.
My ozzie 2011 X5 40d's HUD paints the basics you describe above.
I specifically mention the country differences, as we quite a few of them DownUnder which supposedly are available elsewhere. eg :-
- no pedestrian detection mechanism for X5 (it's only available on the ozzie 7 series)
- no speed limit detection; it was recalled from Ozzieland (as trucks here have safety signs on the back advertising their safest legal speed, and apparently the BMW software was mistaking this for the current road speed ...)
IMHO, some points I'd make are :-
- any HUD is better than no HUD (as you see your exact immediate speed, which helps cut down on speeding fines),
- even the basic HUD's navigation aids are quire useful in directing which street and when to turn (dunno that you could safely navigate only using the center console as a visual navigation system), and
- you can't retrofit a HUD on a non-HUD X5 (according to my dealer)
For these reasons I got the HUD; very happy with it; only one disappointment, regarding information is painted in single colours; when projected onto the windscreen looking out onto a car of the same colour you can't seed the HUD information. (Hence, the multicolored versions in the next gen HUD system).