BMW i8 Review:

Superhuman Hybrid & Porsche 911 Eater

BMW would certainly have you think that the brand-new i8 is the cars of the future– and also it’s a credible claim of a car that is bold, exotic and cutting-edge in just about every means you might judge it.

Yet the i8 additionally marks BMW’s return to a part of the market that it has flirted with in years gone by, and instead memorably so. The Z8 as well as M1 have a follower in this automobile niche and also they are some difficult acts to take on.

There are parallels to be drawn between BMW’s M1 and the i8. The M1 is the only other mid-engined production machine in Munich’s history, and was on sale from 1978 to 1981. But neither the M1, nor the Z8, had a start in life quite like the i8’s. The i8 was conceived to redefine sports car conventions rather than abide by them.

The i8 began with the 2009 Vision EfficientDynamics concept, which reintroduced the idea of a mid-engined BMW flagship and drew power from two electric motors and a three-cylinder turbodiesel engine. That became the plug-in hybrid i8 concept at Frankfurt two years later, swapping the diesel for a petrol turbo.

Now, the production version has arrived. It is made from the lightest, strongest materials using the most advanced techniques that BMW could apply, and it’s driven by a revolutionary petrol-electric plug-in hybrid, all-wheel drive powertrain. This is Munich’s little miracle: a modern hyper-car done for a fraction of the price. And it looks sensational.

But does all that technical sophistication render the sort of drive that no class-leading cars can be without? Or are there constraints to all of this cutting-edge intricacy? We at Bizzee Autos believe it does but you have to be the ultimate judge!

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