Daily Archives: May 9, 2016

2015 BMW i8 – A Plug-in Hybrid Spaceship From Munich

This entry was posted in BMW Carmakers cars electric Hybrid reviews and tagged BMW car review car reviews cars EV i8 phev plug-in hybrid on by (updated 3101 days ago)

2015 BMW i8

A good rule of thumb when attending an auto show is that the more radical looking a concept car is, the less likely it is to ever make it to production. Virtually every major brand is guilty of producing pieces of rolling sculpture that end up doing little more than introducing a couple of new design cues that end up on more mainstream models. When we first saw BMW’s Vision EfficientDynamics concept at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, it seemed to fall squarely into this category. Nevertheless, five years later something very much like that concept emerged as the first-ever i8.

(more…)