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Originally Posted by JulieDriving
It only became standard on (US) cars, as of MY 2011.5.
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Yep. And I'll add that the simplified system that allowed BMW to make MDrive standard without also making iDrive standard was not developed until the GTS came about, which did not ship until mid-2010. That's sort of the history behind why we had to wait for standard MDrive, although I agree with mdosu that they really should have had it from the beginning. It isn't rocket science after all, just hold the M Button to program your current Power, EDC, Drivelogic, and shift-light settings to it.
Now, for the cars out there with iDrive but no MDrive, the fact that BMW USA allowed people to spec it that way to begin with was bogus at best. Stand-alone iDrive really should have added 2MD automatically in the US. And what's most ridiculous is that some people actually got confused into paying for iDrive and EDC seperately instead of spec-ing ZTP which would have essentially gotten them MDrive for free or just about. In other countries where you can add any option to the car ad-hoc, I sincerely doubt that there were more than a handful of cars (if that) where the buyer specs iDrive but chose not to select 2MD. I.e. most of us avoided MDrive because we did not want the double hump, not because we were not cool with the idea of paying for the functionality.