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Beijing motor show 2012 video review by CAR Magazine

CAR's journos on the ground at the 2012 Beijing motor show - Gavin Green and Tim Pollard - met at the end of the first press day to chew over the salient points of the Chinese auto show. Watch them in our video debrief above - and you can read Gavin's full review of the Beijing motor show and read 10 things we learned about the Chinese car market by Tim Pollard. And read individual articles on the 2012 Beijing motor show by clicking on the relevant links below: • Aston Martin DBS, V8 Vantage and Virage Dragon 88• Audi RS Q3 concept car• BMW i8 Spyder concept car• Citroen Numero 9 concept car• Ferrari's new HY-KERS hybrid supercar tech• Jaguar XJ Ultimate and engine news for F-type, XF, XJ• Lamborghini Urus SUV• Mercedes Concept Style Coupe• MG Icon concept car• Porsche Cayenne GTS• Toyota Yundong Shuangqing and Dear Qin • Roewe 950• Seat Ibiza Cupra concept car• VW E-Bugster convertible

BMW i3 EV revealed. It’s clever, but it’s not exactly pretty

The BMW i3 electric city car (pictured) has been officially revealed The BMW i3 – the first of BMW’s production ‘i’ electric cars – has finally been revealed at events in London, New York and Beijing as BMW plots its course to bring a premium electric city car to the world. Looking much like the original Mega City Concept, the i3 debuts a number of innovations from BMW – which are very clever – but it also debuts perhaps the worst looking BMW we’ve ever seen, with its incongruous lines, bulging bonnet, odd shapes on the flanks and slab-backed rear view. But what underpins the i3 is clever indeed, with a lightweight inner body made from carbon fibre and carbon fibre reinforced body panels providing the skin, all conspiring to make the i3 light – 1195kg, despite 25 per cent or so of that being batteries – and very rigid.

AutoWeek makes your Forza Motorsport 3 garage even better

How would you like to be able to drive the Aston Martin One-77 before virtually anyone else in the world? And then jump from that car into a Porsche Boxster S or a Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport? You can do that, starting Jan.