New BMW i3

[SGCM928]

Thanks god it looks less radical than the Vision Neue Klasse concept, and the rear is almost a mini i5. The 4 spokes steering is anything but eye pleasing. Yay or nay?

 

[Volvobrick]

On 3/24/2026 at 7:12 PM, SGCM928 said:

Thanks god it looks less radical than the Vision Neue Klasse concept, and the rear is almost a mini i5. The 4 spokes steering is anything but eye pleasing. Yay or nay?

 

I find myself tilting my head to look and the centre screen.... 

The front reminds me of Mitsubishi Galant and Diamante from the 90's. Looking East for inspiration? 

Edited March 24 by Volvobrick

[Stratovarius]

Ugly isnt it?

 

 

[ER-3682]

@RadXbuy 1 for your Wife or Mistress.

[RadX]

The back look liddis

 

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[Lala81]

U G L Y 

Looks like something that a generative LLM took 1 second to generate.

Edited March 25 by Lala81

[Gnahp]

it looks like a proper car

at least BMW didn't try very hard to make the car shout "I am EV"

by giving it a funny nose and one of those ugly aerodynamic wheel covers

 

 

[RadX]

thats the thing w bmw designs. it takes a while to get used to it, and then later, ppl will realise it was forward looking

 

the 5 however, apart from the 'bangle' version remained conservative, and rightly so, in tht segment of the populace

[Beanoyip]

For once i'm quite interested in the Neue klasse ix3, will go test drive when it arrives.

[SGCM928]

BMW Details The i3’s Biggest Change From Concept To Production (https://www.bmwblog.com/2026/03/24/bmw-design-boss-biggest-change-i3-concept-production/)

• Adrian van Hooydonk likes the i3 more than the Vision Neue Klasse, which was more of a 'rough sketch' for what came after.
• Although not as clean as the concept, the production version adds complexity at the "right points."
• The i3 has much slimmer taillights than the Vision Neue Klasse before it.

Although the 2023 Vision Neue Klasse signaled a fresh design direction at BMW, the first production model wasn’t a sedan. Instead, the iX3 spearheaded Munich’s bold styling approach with a fully reimagined crossover. Now, the electric X3 finally has an i3 counterpart that picks up where the concept left off nearly three years ago.

Although the 2023 Vision Neue Klasse signaled a fresh design direction at BMW, the first production model wasn’t a sedan. Instead, the iX3 spearheaded Munich’s bold styling approach with a fully reimagined crossover. Now, the electric X3 finally has an i3 counterpart that picks up where the concept left off nearly three years ago.

As you can easily tell, the taillights are much slimmer than on the concept. BMW also significantly revised their placement by moving them lower. The production lights don’t sit as high as they did on the Vision Neue Klasse. By contrast, the iX3 largely inherited the taillight design of the 2024 Vision Neue Klasse X concept. Adrian van Hooydonk explained the most significant change between the concept and the production car at the i3’s debut event last week:

“I think the biggest change between the Vision car, and the production car is the taillamp. But while the Vision car had the taillamps on the top of the decklid, we felt that incorporating them in the metal body is nicer. It gives the car, I believe, more value. And of course, we could make the lamps slimmer, and that’s really what we went for. That’s the only real difference.”

Although the production version doesn’t retain all the smooth surfaces of the concept, BMW believes it added complexity where necessary:

“It may be a little bit less clean, but it adds the lines, I believe, at the right points, especially in the rear. The concept car had a more rounded corner; this has a clear cut-off rim, which I think makes it sportier, more precise, and, in the end, also a bit more 3 Series.”

 

 

Candid comment: The Vision Neue Klasse look very scary to me.

Edited March 27 by SGCM928

[Krieger]

Not bad. I will buy once it is open for booking. Easy to drive in city I suppose. The front seems to be a bit more towards Ford Mustang design tho. Y for work and 3 for weekends.