Look at these photos from the interior of the redesigned-for-2009 BMW 750i. What do you see?

Not seeing anything terribly unusual? Well, that’s my point. The shifter–albeit one sourced from Sega–has returned to the center console, displacing the iDrive controller to a secondary position. And the seat controls have assumed a conventional layout rather than the complicated knob-and-sector affair and have moved from the sides of the center armrest to the sides of the seats. On the aesthetic front, the nav screen no longer occupies a binnacle that rivals that of the instruments for size and prominence. And, on the exterior, the 2002 car’s odd trunk cutline and headlight “eyebrows” have both been consigned to the past. The resulting 7 is relatively clean and conventional. Which is the way a driver’s car should be.