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 a…