Thin is in: BMW's conceptual 'Neue Klasse' dash displays - Autoblog

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BMW’s I Vision Dee styling — or, perhaps, minimalist unstyling — turned a batch of heads astatine this week’s Consumer Electronics Show. There was overmuch treatment astir this “Neue Klasse” concept’s possibilities, owed to scope buyers successful lone 3 years, and overmuch to accidental astir the car’s interior.

But not overmuch to see.

In a keynote code astatine the show, Oliver Zipse, president of the committee of absorption of BMW AG, showed an image, surely 1 that qualifies arsenic a teaser, that revealed a narrow, wide surface sitting astatine the basal of the windshield. It shows a timepiece and a speedometer — each integer of people — and an evident vigor readout of “Take On Me” (A-Ha fans, instrumentality note). There’s a shadowy glimpse of a abdominous steering instrumentality successful the foreground. There’s a head-up show successful determination arsenic well, flashed onto the windshield glass.

According to a property merchandise issued for CES, the accusation displayed connected the caller surface tin beryllium selected successful stages by utilizing a "mixed world slider": driving-related information; contents of the communications system; augmented-reality projection; and "entry into virtual worlds." Dagobah, perhaps?

"It is much than a vision. We bring this innovation into the "Neue Klasse." Neue Klasse is BMW’s sanction for a caller scope of vehicles designed to "bring humans and machines person together." Anyway, Zipse continued, referring to the display, "As aboriginal arsenic 2025 – the twelvemonth aft adjacent – our customers volition beryllium capable to acquisition this wholly caller exertion successful their vehicles.”

BMW’s brag said helium was “absolutely convinced” that big center-console-based screens volition vanish from cars. He believes that they are a distraction and that authorities regulations volition yet dictate changes successful those technologies.

Production of the all-electric models volition statesman successful Hungary and past Germany. BMW’s South Carolina mill volition besides marque them by the extremity of the decade, the institution has said. Six oregon much SUV models are planned for the caller platform.

You tin spot immoderate glimpses of the show successful the Dee assemblage of photos we posted earlier this week, a constrictive set of information floating supra a immense featureless expanse of dash:

BMW one Vision Dee CES 2023