You know @toomanyxjs one reason to hold on to an excessive number of older cars is to be able to create content like this!
One of the commenters is correct that most of the decontenting occurred from 2014 to 2015. The rear view mirror lost the digital compass between 2019 and 2021. LCI changes in 2018 included changes to the Giga World (Lodge) interior: darker tan leather, darker wool cloth, armrest and door card leather light tan to beige, less attractive to me but probably not any cost savings.
When we sold our 2014 i3, I swapped its CFRP motor compartment cover for the aluminum one in our 2019 i3. I considered swapping the upholstery, but our 2014 didn't have seat heaters while our 2019 did. That would have made the swap more difficult. Swapping the netting on the back side of the front seats and in front of the center console as well as the center console wrist pad were not important to me relative to the difficulty in doing so.
I considered swapping the rear view mirrors between our 2019 and 2021 i3's to keep the digital compass in the mirror, but the BMW instructions included programming the mirrors which I could not do and didn't want to pay to have done.
But like David Tracy, I did end up with a Galvanic Gold Metallic i3, an uncommon and quite attractive color IMHO.
I don't know. However, the white steering wheel seems to be leather with a white coating that eventually wears off rather than leatherette that is colored throughout.Do you think that white is actual leather? I, for one, don't. It looks to me like leatherette, but I could be wrong!
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