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      07-29-2013, 08:42 PM   #104
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Originally Posted by esquire View Post
This car is monumental in how little it gets right. It fails from in the looks department perspective, from a performance stand point, and then adds insult to injury by selling you the already lackluster package, at a poorly chosen price point.

I read Scott26 say somewhere that the financial livelihood of BMW is tied to the BMW i series - that they've invested that much into it. Hope not, because if so, BMW is about to be in bad shape.
In the looks department I can't think of too many other competing products that look much better (not that I think the i3 looks too bad anyway), and as far as it being a lacklustre package for the price, over here where we have more engine options and BMW's aren't so cheap, you don't exactly get a high performance model at this price anywhere else in the range.

I'm also reasonably sure that BMW made project-i work on more than level before committing billions to it - rather than just hoping to win over M3 drivers with i3's, so I wouldn't worry too much.
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