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Had ventilated seats on my old E60; waste of time, didn't get them on the F10 - just made loed whirring noises and didn't do much to cool you. On top of that, the perforated leather holes were a magent for anything messy my son could spill .

Surround view cameras - great, a must have.

Active cruise with stop and go - I like it a lot, makes driving on motorways in heavy traffic much less stressful, pretty good on major roads, no use on smaller , bending roads.

My IPOD charges fine with the standard USB cable.

I chose the graphite wood, which I think looks good, but that's down to personal taste.

I'm really not sure about the 6NR option - I'm advised by BMW UK that it will be a firmware upgrade to a car with a combox, but do I really want to be able to access twitter and facebook through the car? For that matter, do I want to be able to unlock the car with my iPhone ( which doesn't need 6NR )

Other options I would definitely look at are HUD and Adaptive Drive