Air New Zealand's suggestion it has bought 36 ‘fully-electric’ BMW i3s as part of a sustainability push isn’t quite as it seems, the car’s distributor acknowledges.
Being named New Zealand Car of the Year not only lifts the stature of the BMW i3 electric car but will also be a boost to the potential introduction of a certain sister model.
New Zealand has achieved the highest per-head-of-population pick up of an ultra-hard edition of BMW’s performance coupe. But that still only equates to three cars.
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