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      07-19-2011, 10:37 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Diver View Post
This car is leased because BMW could not sell it at a profit.
Its leased because its a beta test and they wont be making spare parts so in order to meet US laws requiring these parts BMW, under law, must have all models returned to them and destroyed.

Its the same thing that GM did with the EV1, although BMW seems far more committed to electric cars than GM was.
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