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The BMW i3 is special for many reasons. Not only is it unlike any BMW ever sold, it’s also one of the most futuristic cars ever to go into production. And while it may not be on sale yet, the configurator has just surfaced on BMW’s website. Fittingly, for such a unique car, the configurator makes no sense.
We should probably not be surprised that the configurator is difficult to understand. After all, BMW already uses one of the most difficult equipment languages to decipher. But the i3 configurator brings a new level of pretension and marketing terminology. In fact, trying to decipher trim levels is a bit like trying to tell what you just ordered at a four-star restaurant.
Instead of levels you get “worlds”. The base “world” is called Mega. From there you go up through Giga to the top world of Terra … and here I was hoping for Jupiter.
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On a practical level, there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between the $1,700 Giga World and the $2,700 Terra World. On both packages, you get sustainable eucalyptus wood trim, which looks great by the way, the sweetest leather, satellite radio—which you’d expect on a $45,000 car—and active climate control. The only real difference is the wheels – both are 19-inch but look different – and the larger amount of leather in the Terra world. Unfortunately, neither of those two worlds come with lemongrass or shallots…damn.
If you pack in absolutely everything, including 20-inch wheels, heated seats, both tech packages (including things like rearview cameras and navigation), a quick-charge station, and a range extender, the pants price reaches a troublesome $56,000. Even if the i3 is different from other BMWs in many ways, it is priced like a BMW.
That’s a lot of money compared to a similarly sized Nissan LEAF, but the tax credits help. The federal government offers a $7,500 tax credit, and if you live in California you can get another $2,500. Combined with the reduced fuel costs, the i3 isn’t as bad as it seems, and with 170 horsepower, it won’t be exactly slow.
Whatever you think, we encourage you to poke around the configurator and see what you can find. Put the most pretentious description of the color or decoration in the comments!
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Source: newstars.edu.vn