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Oh yes. The i3 is an extraordinary thing. Carbon tub, skinny tyres, aero wheels, brilliant packaging, fab interior. No one bought one. See also A2 and Merc A class. All 3 should have changed the world, but buyers don’t like narrow, tall cars.
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No one bought one
Plenty around my area of London! Wiki says ~22,000 sold in UK, making it the world's fourth-biggest market for the i3
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More like BMW don't want to continue making a car on a custom carbon tub that presumably makes little margin when they can shovel an ev drivetrain into existing SUV architecture and charge £80k for it.
HarmanMogul
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The car-buying public are as much to blame as the designers. The less aggressive non-SUVified, non-pedestrian crushing models are being phased out because people walking into showrooms weren't buying them.
And these are the people we give driving licenses.