Boatguy
Well-known member
My i3 lease is up next year. Obviously I need to drive the Bolt and make a property comparison of real cars, but for $10K less than a comparable equipped i3 (and the i3 still won't have CarPlay or decent phone integration), why would I lease another i3?
It seems like the Bolt will give us all the benefits we enjoy in the i3 (nimble, small, electric, good cargo volume, etc.) without the annoyance of the 80mi range and entirely inconvenient rear doors (impossible painful to use in a perpendicular parking space like a garage or mall). Paying even more for the larger battery i3 to get less than half the range of the Bolt is not compelling.
I'm asking this quite honestly. We love driving the i3 around town, basically in a 30mi radius of our home and it's the only car we want to drive when we go to San Francisco. But I'm struggling to see how the 2017 i3 will be a better choice than the 2017 Bolt.
BMW has a lot of promises about what's going to be delivered in 2020, but maybe they're lack of commitment 3yrs ago means they missed this cycle?
It seems like the Bolt will give us all the benefits we enjoy in the i3 (nimble, small, electric, good cargo volume, etc.) without the annoyance of the 80mi range and entirely inconvenient rear doors (impossible painful to use in a perpendicular parking space like a garage or mall). Paying even more for the larger battery i3 to get less than half the range of the Bolt is not compelling.
I'm asking this quite honestly. We love driving the i3 around town, basically in a 30mi radius of our home and it's the only car we want to drive when we go to San Francisco. But I'm struggling to see how the 2017 i3 will be a better choice than the 2017 Bolt.
BMW has a lot of promises about what's going to be delivered in 2020, but maybe they're lack of commitment 3yrs ago means they missed this cycle?