Summer Motoring: Get connected to the future with BMW

A personal concierge service is no longer the preserve of millionaires, thanks to new technology from BMW, writes Dave Humphreys.

The BMW's personal concierge service, the ConnectedDrive system.

Such is the pace of modern technology that it is hard to imagine that it has been just six years since the iPhone was unveiled to the world, revolutionising for the masses how technology and information is handled on the move.

Now with a new information system called Connected Drive, BMW is bringing potentially just as revolutionary levels of in-car media-integration on the move to its customers' cars.

From a technology point of ...