Exotics
BMW i8
White/Black · Black interior · Gloss
The i8 looks like something BMW showed at a motor show and then forgot to water down. Dihedral doors, floating rear buttresses and a two-tone white-and-black body were all production reality, wrapped around a carbon-fibre passenger cell. It draws more questions per mile than almost anything here, and it pulls away from a stoplight in complete silence before the engine ever wakes.
At a glance
- Year
- 2019
- Make
- BMW
- Model
- i8
- Body
- Coupe
- Roof
- Butterfly doors
- Exterior
- White / Black
- Interior
- Black, custom starlight headliner
- Finish
- Gloss
- Powertrain
- Turbocharged three-cylinder plug-in hybrid
- Drivetrain
- All-wheel drive
What makes it special
- Plug-in hybrid drive means it can leave quietly and arrive quietly — unusual for a car that looks like this
- Dihedral doors and a carbon passenger cell: exotic engineering, not a styling package
- Starlight headliner fitted to this car (aftermarket), which turns night drives into the main event
Worth knowing
The i8's passenger cell is carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic — BMW built a dedicated plant in Moses Lake, Washington, powered by hydroelectricity, to make the fibre for it.
Your Arizona experience
A night out in Scottsdale: leave the resort driveway on electric power, then let it wake up on the way to dinner.
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