Maybe a subjective question-To those that have the digital info screen on their 400 GT, if you were to do it all over again would you buy the same or the lesser dash model. And if I may ask why ?. I’m an old guy. I don’t really need Bluetooth IMO and I have a small Garmin Nuvi that I can use for trips.
BMW NA has succeeded in confusing me, and possibly you, too.
For my 2022 C 400 GT, as far as I know there was no option to choose, or not choose, to have the TFT display and the connectivity associated with it. At least here in the USA: it came with the bike. I assume that's what you're asking about: the TFT display.
Now, for model year 2024 -- which is the MY shown at
https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/models/urban_mobility/c400gt.html -- there is conflicting information, or so it seems to me.
If you scroll down that page, you can see this:
There is no mention of the TFT's being "optional" or similar verbiage. So there's that, i.e., it seems very much like the situation I encountered for MY 2022 (I ordered mine in late May 2022, and took delivery in June 2022).
HOWEVER, ON THE OTHER HAND,
If you click on Build Your Own on that page, when you're taken to a new page, to do the actual building, you encounter this box over on the right:
That mentions the "The
optional 6.5-inch TFT color display" [emphasis mine] and its "innovative Connectivity functions." So that certainly seems as if the TFT is optional, in line with your question.
HOWEVER, ON THE THIRD HAND,
If you actually attempt to build your own -- click your way through the NEXT STEP buttons and the choices -- you will not see a choice involving the TFT, i.e., you will not be able to add it as an option, not be able to add it to your custom configuration. At least I couldn't find it.
(Note that the "Premium Package" comprises heated grips and a heated seat -- only those -- according to its description, just as was the case when I was configuring my MY 2022 C 400 GT. By the way, I did order that heating package, and recommend it.)
So, based on at least my inability to somehow add the TFT/Connectivity, once again it looks to me as if this is a standard feature, just as that home page implies to me, just as was (to the best of my knowledge) the case for MY 2022 (and, I think MY 2023).
So once again, I don't think you have a choice here.
And by "here" I mean the USA, and probably all of North America. In the rest of world, choosing -- or not choosing -- the TFT may be an option. For BMW NA, I think not.
Further, we are talking about the C 400 GT. Not here in North America, but much (most? all?) of the rest of the world also gets the option of choosing the C 400 X, in place of or in addition to the C 400 GT. The C 400 X differs
only cosmetically from the C 400 GT. It has different headlights, slightly different bodywork around them, a slightly different seat, and passenger foot pegs instead of bodywork for them; I think that's it ... except that ...
The other difference is the dash, which in my experience is, at least by default, not a TFT display. So perhaps BMW confused itself, and that opening box on the Build Your Own page was really intended to be present for a Build Your Own "X" page, not a Build Your Own "GT" page. That is, perhaps the C 400 X can be -- optionally -- upgraded to replace its stock dash with the TFT. And, the X not being offered in North America, that box should not have been shown here (well, it should have been reworded, to omit all references to the TFT).
(My experience with the C 400 X, by the way, consists of two Edelweiss scooter tours in May 2022, of five riding days in Tuscany and five riding days around Vienna, and its nine-riding-day "Ultimate Alps" tour about three months ago. The first two were pretty sedate touristy tours, two-up with my wife, while the tour this year was a solo trip for me, fairly hardcore riding, and I generally kept the C 400 X in the speedier part of the group; the X is not a choice among the 30 or so bikes in their regular tours, but I whined to Edelweiss over the winter that if I couldn't ride that -- they don't offer the GT -- then I wouldn't book the trip.)
I don't know about you, but I hope that explains why I'm confused. Have you talked to a North American dealer about the alleged option?