2009 BMW 750i: Heated Seats and Steering Wheel

sigh...I suppose for $90,000 you have to have something. glad you think it's something special...

I love heated steering wheels. I don't like driving with clumsy gloves on. I wish they also made ventilated steering wheels.

Even in the summer I use heated seats to keep my fresh pita bread/pizza warm and toasty until I get home.

I used to scoff at heated seats, but once I got a car that had them, I decided they're nice to have in the winter. So when one's hands are cold from being out in the wind, I can imagine that a heated steering wheel is also comforting.

Funny though, that 56° qualifies as extreme conditions in SoCal. 56 *is* a little chilly, but after experiencing the occasional 30s in DFW, the 20s and teens is where my yardstick for extreme begins. And for northern climates, that's probably considered tame.

It was 11.5 degrees Celcius(52-ish degrees Fahrenheit) today and was considered a warm day here. I was all excited because I could open my sunroof today without freezing!

if you think 56 degrees is cold, what would you do if temperatures got to below freezing where water freezes on the windshield. 56 degrees...i could use my sunroof too without freezing. This morning it was 51 degrees and i did not have to start my car early which i usaully do in the winter. i would have the coold seats on (mabey) with the sunroof open.

56 degrees is chilly? My GOD. Have you experienced 20> Fahrenheit with wind chill? Thats chilly. Cold is -10> degrees. Here we experience -20> degrees and that my friend is the temp when you can see your spit freeze on the ground.

I think at this point the edmunds writers are well aware of the mild climate they test in and refer to it jokingly...we don't need people saying "you think THAT'S cold!?" in every single post that mentions a temperature, do we?

Anyway, heated seats are nice but I only find them to be a necessity in california when you pair them with leather...and I don't like leather. Heated steering wheel sounds weird. But I guess I'm not in the 7's target market, am I?

56 is chilly? i still have open windows at 56! but heated seats are that luxury you never realize how great it is until you have it. I have always wanted a heated steering wheel for the winter however.

I wonder how the btu output would be ranked if it were tested someplace that was actually chilly...

Cold outside, but having your hands warm....thats lovely.

Geez you guys, clarkma5 was the only one that picked up on the thick sarcasm in Scott's post calling 56F "extreme"??

By the way, up here in NorCal it was a positively frigid 51F this morning. It was so bitterly freezing-cold that I had to wear a jacket to work!!

Scott,

No offense dude, but you are a pansy.

My car told me 30 degrees all day today in Colorado. The morning low this morning was 17 degrees (and that's not Celsius). We've had 22 inches of snow in the past 24 hours and my 6 has handled it just fine. You are what we call a transplant around here....there are a ton of people in Denver from California. I am someone who truly appreciates (and needs) my seat warmers.

I would've killed for 56 degrees today. But hey, the best skiing in the world is an hour away, so I'm not gonna complain.

HA! 56 DEGREES IS BITTER?!? LMAO. Wow.

OMG AT 56 DEGREES I GO SUNTANNING AND SWIMMING AND ZOMG SO WARM.

sarcasm, everyone....

You guys are soooo funny with all of your long-term posts citing 50-60 degree "wintry" weather. WTF? Wussies.

any car that is this expensive should have heated seat cushions AND seatbacks. The Equinox even has that. Only low end cars have heated seat cushions only- or so I thought.

@1487-
It does have heated seatbacks.... you honestly think a $90,000 car wouldnt?
Ask the editor- they do.
I love my BMW's heated seats- better than any others i've ever had, especially when it gets down into the negatives

@zoomzoom22

I live in Colorado Springs and this city shut down in 4 inches of snow, I think it's from all the transplants not knowing how to drive in snow and don't leave the house. When i was in junior high I remember walking half a mile to the bus stop in a blizzard and never getting snow days, how times have changed.

Testing cars in Southern California doesn't really make much sense. No rain, no snow and no extremely low temperatures. Summer tires on most of their cars would be useless in the winter and fuel economy would suffer do to frequent cold starts. In order to get an accurate depiction of what a majority of American would experience with these cars, they need to be tested elsewhere- like the northeast.

audikrazy1 ,

You don't like heated steering wheels? Have you ever lived where it get down to 0'F or -10'F? Me, I hate it when I have to wear heavy gloves while driving just to keep my hand from freezing to the steering wheel.

"It does have heated seatbacks.... you honestly think a $90,000 car wouldnt?"

The 7 also has heating for the bolsters and thigh support extension.

jeepsrt-
Exactly! We'd get a good two feet of snow but if the buses with chains on em could make it to school then everyone had to go to school!

And yet, CSU and CU were both shut down on Wednesday because of this snow, and all Douglas County high schools had two days off. Times have definitely changed.