BMW Vision Driving Experience Wows Shanghai

You’ve read about the new Heart of Joy and the other Superbrains of the BMW Vision Neue Klasse vehicles coming soon. And now, BMW continues to showcase the new engineering leaps they’re making with driving experiences that demonstrate just how far ahead they’re getting.

At the Auto Shanghai 2025 event, BMW unveiled it’s high-performance text vehicle to the public, with test drivers Jens Klingmann and Elias Houndtonji, demonstrating driving maneuvers for the BMW Vision Driving Experience.

“This evening in Shanghai, BMW Group presented the most powerful prototype BMW has ever built. With up to 18,000 Nm of torque, the BMW Vision Driving Experience demonstrated Joy of Driving in its ultimate form. Equipped with our new super brain “Heart of Joy”, the VDX is converting the ultimate electric power into controlled driving pleasure – no wonder we’ve experienced overwhelming feedback from the audience,” said Jochen Goller, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for Customers, Brands and Sales.

The test vehicle, shown in a special luminescent paint, was demonstrated in ways specially designed to challenge the Heart of Joy supercomputer at the limits of driving physics.

The press release describes the Heart of Joy: In the new functional architecture of the Neue Klasse, the Heart of Joy is the central computer responsible for driving, braking, recharging through recuperation and some steering functions. With fast information processing and direct control of the electric motors, the Heart of Joy not only achieves a new level of agility and driving stability with fewer system interventions, but also enables 98 per cent of braking operations to be carried out using brake energy regeneration. This represents a 25% increase in efficiency compared to today’s architectures. The vehicle can also be brought to a standstill more smoothly than ever before.