BMW i3 tagged posts

Today, BMW China announced the MSRP for the brand’s electric car: the i3. Below is the pricing data:

This translates to USD $72,640 for the base i3 and $83,940 for the i3 with range extender. As mentioned before, please do not be confused by the imported car’s pricing in China, which seems to be much higher than the same one we see in the States. The reason is because the Chinese government is imposing heavy tariff on imported goods, especially for automobiles.

Benefited by the electric power source, which does not has an internal combustion engine (or just with a very small displacement engi...

When you are claiming your product is a luxury car, you need to have some distinct features that those “normal” cars don’t have.

10 to 15 years ago the claim is much easier. Back in that time, if you can made a beautiful car body, have good assembling accuracy, sharp headlight/rear lights, rear-wheel-drive, silent cabin, fancy electronic features such as navigation, automatic AC etc., then you can safely claim your car is a luxury car.

But situation is totally changed recently: for example many daily-driving cars looks really nice; the previous Hyundai Genesis already claimed better assembling accuracy than BMW, which you can buy one for less than $30k if you negotiate we...