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BMW i3 Named What Car? Green Car of the Year
BIMMERPOST NEWS BMW i3 Named What Car? Green Car of the Year What Car? has released its Car of the Year 2014 awards and two BMWs have been named winners - the BMW i3 and 435i Coupe. The BMW i3 beat out the Renault Zoe and Tesla Model S in What Car?'s Green Cars category. |
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First that come in mind from a wide range of beautiful cars that offer long trips, visceral sound and one unique "alive" experience...
http://www.jaguar.co.uk/jaguar-range/f-type Not to mentionthe new M3 saloon that starts at £56,000... http://www.bmw.co.uk/vc/ncc/xhtml/st...orMainExterior |
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First time I have heard someone say the model S is ugly too. It would look good with a gas engine and less interior tech too.
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Fishy fishy, fishy... I hope everybody buys this "beauty" More exquisite cars for the rest of us... |
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You found the angle you liked the least, a color that I'm not sure I have ever saw in the flesh and posted it. And it still isn't ugly. If I was home I would find some different pics. |
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01-11-2014, 12:10 AM | #13 |
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I agree somewhat. The interior is boring, too much room, if that makes sense. You don't feel like your driving something, more like it is driving you around. Feels like you are riding is a car at an amusement park. The exterior is bland.
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It's not that it's ugly, it's just so boring. I'll gladly agree that the acceleration is very invigorating, but everything else is bland. The interior is actually worse than bland -- it's banal. It's totally dependent on the supposed sexiness of the imitation iPad screen. But if you look at and touch the rest of the interior, it's all just slightly off in that synthetic, trying-too- hard-to-be-luxurious way that could easily have been designed and built by Toyota or Chevy. And even the faux iPad screen is less than sexy when (as happens pretty often in the real world) the internet connection is not so hot. |
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I think the i3 just won in its respective category.
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01-11-2014, 06:45 PM | #16 |
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i3 did win green car of the year
The layout of the first page of the What Car? does make it look like perhaps the i3 just won in its price category.
However, if you click on the link to the part of the article that talks specifically about the i3 (http://www.whatcar.com/awards/2014/c...en-cars/20-30k), you will see that indeed the i3 was their overall Green car of the year, beating both the Zoe and the Tesla S. |
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WhatCar? awards
You correctly say that i3 & 435i have won WhatCar? awards, but you overlook 5 other category wins for BMWs:
The BMW 5 Series Touring scores Best buy Estate over £25,000 BMW 5 Series Sedan is Best buy Executive Car over £28,000 BMW 3 Series Sedan wins Best buy Executive Car £24,000-£28,000. Illustrating that the Brits define “large SUV” by a different standard than Americans, BMW X3 tops out as Best buy Large SUV £25,000-£40,000. In addition, BMW’s Rolls-Royce Phantom was named Best Buy over £100,000. |
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