bmw i3

Parked up next to one today and took the chance to look it over, love the look (looks like an A2.

little searching on the web and found an interesting article about tyres and feedback from some owners about ride quality similar to A2 characteristics.

http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/04/24/bmw-i3s-tires-more-important-than-youd-think/

Yes, interesting. I note it was a USA article and they never got the A2. The A2 1.2 3L also had thin, low resistance eco tyres, originally Bridgestone Ecopias or Continental Winter Tyres (according to the A2 wiki article). There were 2 posts on the forum back in 2008 over the difficulty of getting these tyres http://www.a2oc.net/forum/showthread.php?7426-Bridgestone-B381&highlight=rolling resistance and http://www.a2oc.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-8882.html

The BMW 3i tyres are 155/70R19 and the A2 1.2 3L are 145/80R14, a much smaller tyre/wheel