Erin Baker reviews the BMW i7 on a trip through the Cotswolds.
Hot-stone massaging seats, air purification, concierge services, weather reports, Champagne fridges, whisky decanters, shooting-star-lit ceilings and reclining rear seats: there’s very little you can’t get in a car now, to ease the journey ahead or make the life of the one per cents that little bit more like the life of the 0.1 per cents. Until, that is, BMW introduced us all to the in-car cinema.
The clinching factor in these Sylvanian images of treehouses at The Fish was the two outdoor tubs, side by side on the balcony among the trees, with their industrial-chic brass taps and a bell between them saying “buzz for booze”. Take me to your captain; sign me up; I’m in. Off we set that morning in our fully charged, massive, white i7, my mother stretched out in the front , bags thrown into the endless boot, the kids in the back, theatre screen powered down before we’d turned out of the drive.
Didn’t really care, if I’m honest – mum nodded off and I had the silent cocoon of this luxury electric car all to myself for two hours. It’s a beautiful thing to drive: goodness knows how they’ve done it, but BMW have managed to inject some actual driving passion and precision into this heavy whale, with its eternal bonnet, massive wheels which lift you up as high as a Range Rover and high-waisted, gleaming chrome skirt that runs around the car.
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