BMW i3
Why 6.3: 170 hp and a one-speed reduction gear give it brisk, silent torque, but the real trick is the carbon-fiber tub: RWD, narrow tires, genuinely tossable in a way no other city EV bothers with. Values collapsed fast, so what's left is a cult of owners who use it exactly as designed.
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Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €41k (2014) → €6k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
The long version
BMW spent carbon-fiber-supercar money engineering a city car nobody asked for, built an entire dedicated factory process around it, and the result depreciated like any other short-range first-generation EV — which is exactly why the ownership pattern flipped from novelty purchase to genuine daily-driver cult. RWD and a narrow track were unusual choices for a commuter EV, and BMW's chassis engineers used them properly, so what's left is oddly fun to drive fast around a roundabout. Nobody buys a decade-old i3 to flip it; the used-market price already did the flipping for them.