Say what you will about Chris Bangle's version of the BMW 7-Series—in fact, Time Magazine named it one of the 50 Worst Cars of All Time. But few would deny today that the designer has had a strong impact on car styling, as the competition falls over itself trying to beat one another to the punch on who can copy the famed automaker's designs faster. Now Autoblog is running some leaked photos of the all-new 2009 version, including some shots of the new, Internet-connected interior.

The interior "sports a new iDrive controller with buttons mounted around it now, and the iDrive onscreen interface itself is new, too," the report said. "The multifunction steering wheel now has 3 spokes instead of four, and one shot clearly shows BMW's new in-car Internet service onscreen. Finally, the rear-seat entertainment system gets screens on each front seatback instead of the single, low-mount center screen available in the current 7."

It certainly sounds impressive, even if the actual look of the interior is more evolutionary than revolutionary. Here's hoping BMW finally revamped iDrive's notoriously balky interface.