BMW i3

All right.

The, uh, 2027 BMW i3 is officially launched in the US.

Uh, and nicely optioned, incredible spec, incredible EPA range of up to 468 miles.

You know, this is, uh, Lucid territory.

Oh, yeah.

What is the roof made of on a BMW i3? I don't know if they changed it, but it's a, it's a 2014 model.

Have you thought about just leasing for a couple years-

No

I'm not doing it

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the roof of a standard BMW i3 is made from carbon fiber reinforced polymer with an exposed clear coated weave.

Oh.

Number one.

Every BMW i3, as in the original, just to clarify that, ran on forged aluminium wheels made by Fuchs.

Okay, interesting.

Okay.

Okay.

So, let's have a crack at these.

So, BMW i3.

Force aluminium wheels made by

Yes, yeah.

I mean, certainly if you're going to put a combustion engine in anything, this is in my very strict... list of criteria uh you know a range extender is a but you know like the london taxi that's effectively a range extender the bmwi3 the you know the original one with a little motorbike engine in the back but what the amount of people i met who bought that with the very the distinct you know fear that they would run out but if they've got that that makes them feel better and most of them have had had problems with the engine because they never used it and that was a real that was a real eye-opener for i think for bmw as well it was like oh they didn't actually they weren't running that engine all the time they can't you were in your manual your i bmw i3 manual it said run the engine because it otherwise it gets all clogged up and the petrol goes off and all that stuff anyway that's no exactly the i3 was sort

of the first one and then after that we've not yeah we've not well the london taxi is one but range extenders have largely been confined to the chinese market since then and american

i mean the number of cabbies i've spoken to and i said do you ever do you plug your car and he went of course i do all the time and i said all right so you know the amount of them have said that oh i hate it when the engine comes on it's awful

Oh, good news.

BMW i3.

Jesus.

The range extender.

I gave the caveat at the beginning of, I don't care how it is, as long as it's a hybrid.

And this counts.

BMW i3, 0-60, 7.9 seconds.

Okay, fine.