{"id":9134,"date":"2021-05-24T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2021-05-24T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:46:13","slug":"still-life-german-car-vibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9134","title":{"rendered":"Still Life: German Car Vibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2021\/05\/amuz_2_german_cars2k.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2021\/05\/amuz_2_german_cars2k.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That SUV&#8217;s dominate our current auto era is an understatement.   <\/p>\n<p>Yet, every time I see a BMW i3, I ponder what might have been.  I drove an early example in 2014 [1] and largely enjoyed a more recent road trip with a &#8220;conventional&#8221; ICE (internal combusion engine) BMW convertible [2].<\/p>\n<p>My i3 experience included an unexpected lunch with a product manager.   <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to consider the conception, birth and death of the i3\/i8 today, a time when many automakers are madly chasing EV&#8217;s (electric vehicles), including nearly unlimited girth, such as Ford&#8217;s recently announced electric F-150.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years hence &#8211; in 2028, God willing, how will the i3 reflect that day&#8217;s market expectations?<\/p>\n<p>Were I to hazard a guess, I suspect that it will be more familiar.   Perhaps a recent Fiat 600 multipla [3] sighting  foreshadows new thinking.  <\/p>\n<p>Docendo discimus.<\/p>\n<p>[1] The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymcar.com\/?p=238\">i3 Long Bet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] Stuttgart\/Munich: <a href=\"https:\/\/amuznews.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/stuttgartmunich-gazing-west-to-cupertino.html\">Gazing west to Cupertino<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[3] Fiat <a href=\"http:\/\/microcarmuseum.com\/tour\/fiat-multipla.html\">600 Multipla<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That SUV&#8217;s dominate our current auto era is an understatement. Yet, every time I see a BMW i3, I ponder what might have been. I drove an early example in 2014 [1] and largely enjoyed a more recent road trip with a &#8220;conventional&#8221; ICE (internal combusion engine) BMW convertible [2]. My i3 experience included an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}