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BMW530 11-16-2008 05:29 AM

Attended the the new F01 7 Series launch here in the UK on Thursday 13th. A very nice car indeed, hopefully some of the new gadgets will be filtered into the new F10 5 series.

Anyway just a little observation I saw and that that the wipers were in the correct position for right hand drive cars. i.e wipers positioned to move from left to right. I've been used to the last two generations of 7 series and the E39 and current E60 5 series having the wipers positioned to move from right to left which are more suitable for left hand drive cars. So I was a bit amazed to see the F01 changed to suit right hand drive cars :) Probably a geeky observation but thought its interesting for some here in the forums

tbal 11-16-2008 12:06 PM

I guess bmw finally decided to overlook some minor details rofl

bruce_miranda 11-16-2008 12:36 PM

Didn't they also have it set correctly on the 3 series.

QTR28 11-18-2008 07:41 AM

I remember the 92-99 S class Mercedes also had the left to right sweep, then they changed it in 2000..... I think the Germans like us Americans better lol :clap: jk

littlemouse 11-18-2008 07:47 AM


Originally Posted by bruce_miranda' post='722667' date='Nov 16 2008, 09:36 PM
Didn't they also have it set correctly on the 3 series.

I think you are correct...

BMW530 11-20-2008 01:16 PM

The 3 series always had the wipers in the correct position for right hand drive cars for a while now as I've previously owned 2 E46s.
I've only noticed the 5 and 7 Series having the incorrect positions for rhd cars. Hopefully the next F10 5 Series will have the correct positions too :-)


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