BMW i8

Carbuyer UK is a publication based mainly on the consumer. Usually, auto journalists choose cars over one another over a tenth of a second difference in 0-60 times. This is largely a useless metric for…

At the moment, buying a diesel car over a gasoline (or petrol, if you live on the eastern side of the Atlantic) powered car represents quite a large gain in both economy and efficiency. Currently,…

Over the years, the BMW i8 has been at the center of many automotive tuning projects, but none of them truly created an exciting build. Most of them focused on visual upgrades, rather than performance,…

In the midst of the VW diesel scandal, BMW is accelerating the development of the electric sub-brand. BMW Chief Executive Harald Krüger sees Google, Tesla and Apple as future rivals, compared to traditional brands, like…

To celebrate their market debut in Romania, the new i3 and i8 joined forces for an exclusive phootshoot. The first two graduates of the BMW i division are ready to take on new markets which…

BMW is preparing to launch an i8 Frozen Grey Edition for Germany. Fifteen units have already been built and will be put on sale in the near future. Unfortunately, the name is somewhat misleading, since…

The BMW i8 is many things, it’s a sports car, it’s an economy car and it’s a grand touring car. But what it isn’t is a racing car. When thinking about drag racing some of…

Most car enthusiasts fear an electrified or hybridized future. Most of us will not let internal combustion go gently into the night and will fight the electric car off, with piston in hand, until it’s…

Autocar puts together some of the most exciting sports cars one can buy today. From Munich, the Englishmen brought the new BMW M4 Coupe; from Zuffenhausen comes the Porsche Cayman GT4; the i8 comes from Leipzig…

Can a lighter, underpowered hybrid sportscar take on the flagship supercar from Audi? A BMW i8 plug-in hybrid was pitted against the Audi R8 in a drag race with no rolling start. The previous generation…