BMW i3
£33,805
42.2kWh battery
170 bhp
1spd auto
7.3 secs
177 miles
0 g/km
MUST TRY HARDER. NOT THE CAR, US. YOU DON’T know what you’ve got till it’s gone, as the lyric goes. Well, we’ve had the i3 for eight years, and now we don’t any more. BMW has taken it off sale, so we no longer have the chance to buy what remains, after all this time, the most cleverly designed, boldly styled and radically engineered electric car there is. Maybe car full stop in fact.
Carbon chassis, skinny wheels, sustainable materials, light, airy, wonderful cabin, controversial doors… but it appears to have led BMW down a blind alley – there’s no intention to replace it, and the carbon construction doesn’t seem to have led anywhere either.…
