The handbrake. It's a proper, traditional, mechanical lever. Lovely. In a manual. In an auto, not so good, as the car is constantly pushing against it so you have to jam it on hard. It's just clunky in one of the smoothest operating 'box's.
So look at the F10/F11. Electric handbrake. Convenient, easy, safer. Lovely. In an auto. In a manual, not so good as it is forgettable and you're never quite sure it's on until you look for the illuminated light.
So what frustrates me is that they can't offer a manual handbrake for manual cars and automatic handbrakes for automatic cars! That way the whole system works in harmony as the electric handbrake and Auto H system in the 5 Series works absolutely perfectly with the 8AT! In the F30 it's still foot firmly on the brakes or jamming on the handbrake or hunting between P, N & D.
Lazy and cost cutting. Not impressive. As are the little things that let you know it's a pre-LCI such as the single halogen bulb indicators - get some awesome LED tail ones in like my E90!! Lazy styling on the final touches.
Wonder if they will implement an electric handbrake in the LCI...
If they do, I hope it's not purely electric handbrake otherwise it will piss off 6MT drivers! Ooooh only if I had a say in BMW!
