My local Finnish dealer received a confirmation from BMW Nordic product manager that the new I-Drive won't be in X6 this spring. X6 is apparently getting the new I-drive by the end of the year. That must mean the 2010 production. Darn... :(

I don´t believe so. Scott27 who works for the BMW AG (as posted in this thread) said a few days ago that idrive comes in March. As I researched in several forums and threads, Scott27 seems to be a very good informed guy who is not posting things that are not true. Several other sources (BMW dealers in Germany) confirmed the new idrive for spring also in private.

A local dealer told me that BMW does everything to satisfy their customers and an old idrive in an 80000 Euro Car is impossible for any month longer. His sources told him that the press release is going to be published very soon, within the next 14 days(?)!

Let us trust in Scott27 and some other unconfirmed voices! BMW will not fool us with an old idrive for a higher list price - I hope so.

What happens here? New iDrive also in fall? Still can´t believe that.

http://www.bimmerfile.com/2009/01/17...oon/#more-1904

Scott27 makes himselfs scarce - send us a sign, please! ;-) The time is ripe.

Per my info:
The F10 5-series and X3 are coming in spring 2010 as 2011 models.
New BMW models releases for 2009 are:
PAS(F07) - Geneva show
7-series F01 (already out),
7-series hybrid, 7-series xDrive, 760Li - Fall 2009
X5 M, X6 M - Shanghai or Frankfurt,
X6 hybrid - Fall 2009
Z4 - Detroit show.

X5 facelift may happen earlier than scheduled. Like F10, F13 6-series is still a while before it happens, not even in FEP phase.

Any new information about the new idrive?

My x5 35d goes into production on March 10th (approx). I've got a call into BMW USA about this whole i-Drive thing. They assurred me that they would find out a definite answer and get back to me. They did agree that it was poor that customers still dont know what they are going to get in a car, given it goes into production in about 5 weeks.

Scott27 has been totally wrong! Now everyone should believe that he is no "insider" at all. ;-))

X5 and X6 - no iDrive in the Spring... German pricelist available today and DVD Navigation inside!

Hope we learn something about the ///M's before Frankfurt - that's in September. :(

Ya, the guys at BMW NA pretty much confirmed that to me today. That is unfortunate. Cancelled my order. Screw that BMW. They are hopeless.

You did it right! I would do it also.. but it is too late. I must drive my X6 with an old iDrive. That sucks. My last BMW for many years - for sure. I have always been a very good customer and ordered lots of BMW´s for my business and myself.

BMW sells those expensive X6 cars with old tech. They give the new iDrive to the old 5 but leave out the brand new X6. Those guys who are responsible are so stupid.. I hope they´ll loose thousands of customers for the X5 and X6 and fire those guys who are responsible!