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welcome to something a little bit different here on Linus tech tips we had a unique opportunity to travel all the way to Germany to test drive the all-new BMW 1-series so I guess that's pretty much all there is to say other than come along for the ride this is the all-new one series from BMW a line of sporty economical hatchbacks that might surprise you considering how much performance and tech they've managed to cram into a car of this class compared to previous models the appearance of the new lineup has been significantly improved they've added an all new front bumper design with bigger intakes slimmer LED headlights and classic BMW L shaped LED tail lights that weren't present on previous one series vehicles it's available in a variety of engine sizes ranging from 109 horsepower three cylinder all the way up to a 326 horsepower turbocharged inline six rocketship with manual and automatic gearboxes available powering either rear wheel drive or BMWs all-wheel X Drive now our car is equipped with an X Drive 120 diesel boasting the M Sport package which features this sharp-looking S teal blue color a sporty front clip 17-inch rims and an exclusive side trim but of course if I spent this whole video blathering on about rims cornering acceleration and braking you'd probably think you clicked on the wrong channel and besides I'm comparing this to my heavily neglected 2003 Lambo anyway so why don't I do us all a favor and leave the car reviews to the car guys which ah was that too soon and hop on over to some of the top tech features of our loaded up one series oh oh holy cow this thing has a lot of buttons on it notice you can set like eight different radio stations I can do like six in mine I don't think that's the technology we're supposed to be focused on but first up for me was the nav system now obviously I'm in friggin Germany so I relied pretty heavily on this bad the preloaded Maps feature real-time traffic on this like sick 3d view or a more traditional view if you prefer that and some other sweet add-ons including different route mapping for best fuel economy least amount of time or shortest route real time speed limit updates using a front-facing camera in the windshield to tell you hey there's a construction zone or hey there's adverse weather conditions and this one is cool background monitoring of topographical information that allows adaptive downshifting of the automatic transmission when approaching an uphill and it can also work with the cruise control system to decrease speed when it notices you're about to approach a corner with all that said all the smart navigation features in the world won't completely stop you from being an idiot behind the wheel sorry but we can laugh about all of that and show off some more features now because I clearly survived now to be clear most of the features were showing off are powered by BMWs optional connected drive which uses a built-in 3G or LTE SIM card that sits in a crash protected enclosure in the rear of the vehicle with the purchase of this feature you get text messages SOS calls and an unlimited data plan with no roaming from one European country to another and you can use that data plan for other cool stuff as well like wiki local a button you press to see cool stuff to do nearby or getting real-time stock updates in the dash of your car if you're into that sort of thing to expand BMW on lines functionality you can plug in a compatible phone in the armrest either with an adapter or a USB cable run the BMW connection assistant this stuff just like voice calls through your car speakers does use your own phone so your own mobile plan but also have some interesting third-party apps internet radio was one that let me feel a little more at home even though I was on the other side of the world and audible can actually be integrated into your dash and lets you listen to your favorite audiobooks without fumbling around on your phone while driving but if you're not that into audiobooks how about this one there's a GoPro app that's sick Nick where's the GoPro we should totally set it up I'm bringing up all right okay so this is a totally contrived opportunity for us to use the concierge service now Luke actually tried this back at CES two years ago and said it was pretty impressive he basically said they have to pretty much do whatever you asked and they can't hang up on you so Luke like kept the guy on the phone forever we're not going to do that but we're just going to place a call and we're gonna get someone to tell us where to buy a GoPro in music so let's see how this goes welcome to BMW ConnectedDrive speaker with Linus Larson how may I help you wow your name is Linus yeah that is the coolest thing ever my name is Linus I don't meet many more than a happy just another Lannister that is fantastic don't worry I have an actual reason for calling you um I mean I'm in Munich right now which I guess you probably know and I need to buy a GoPro camera so I need like a general electronics store and I was hoping that you could help me find one and turn my navigation system on to help me get there okay look I would get they have them at Media Markt are they open right now that the here's one and it actually seems to be open Oh awesome well it's actually not that far from your current position either it's well air distance is 4.6 kilometers great sending it to a car as we speak as a destination so just let me know when it shows up uh yeah it looks like that has shown up for me so I guess I just press ok yes the either ok or start guidance yeah I'll go with start guidance since there is no okay on the screen yeah alright sir is there something else I can help you with at the moment no I think that's it thank you very much Linus same to you loan attorney or anything else just call us back alright thank you very much his name's Linus alright we got it so I guess now the next step is to get this mounted on the car and go find go find somewhere interesting to drive I don't have my keys how am I going to open this package breaking all the things I say that isn't this is something new for me but yeah oh look at that it's open already okay hold on starting preview sweet it's upside down while holding it upside down so nice so let's go preview our position for it the preview goes away when you go in to drive but perforin look at that bippity Boppity magic Cinderella nonsense alright back to actual driving technology the adaptive cruise control or whatever BMW calls it is one thing that blew my socks off there's basically a radar box in the front of the car that allows you to set a speed up to 210 km/h then just forget about it you'll automatically slow down and even stop if the car in front of you decelerate and then stay stop for less than two seconds I want to put my foot back down I don't need to apparently and last but not least the all-new one series parks it fell not just parallel lis but even into a stall using an array of sensors on the bumpers we've got the mode on and we're just kind of cruising along in the parking lot and of course up hey I was going to say of course the time you go to demo and it doesn't work but it did reverse slowly and brake manually uh-huh okay this is kind of tripping me out right now you can see ok the sensors are like yeah I don't like that but yeah I mean you're the one doing this so uh-huh yeah drop drive forward slowly ha ha ha uh-huh yeah secure vehicle again strolling away you got it buddy so I guess that's pretty much it I want to thank the people of Germany for being so hospitable and I want to thank you guys as well for watching the video today like it if you liked it dislike it if you thought of just plain sucked leave a comment if you have suggestions for future videos actually especially if you have suggestions for future videos because this whole car technology thing is coming pretty close together these days so it's probably not the last time you're 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