i3's were $50,000+ dollar cars when the US average selling price was under $35,000. That's for a supermini car (but well packaged) with a pretty spartan interio

i3's were $50,000+ dollar cars when the US average selling price was under $35,000. That's for a supermini car (but well packaged) with a pretty spartan interior. It was selling for the same price as extremely well equipped 3 series and lower end 5 series. I'd call that shocking. The depreciation curve on them was also extreme, since they were worth under 30k within just a couple of years. Much more scary is the repair costs. Yours as the pure electric needed very little, but the REx repairs were expensive. You had to pay BMW dealer prices since it was a weird little engine you couldn't get parts for. And as I said, even minor collision damage was pretty catastrophic.