A builder working on a B58 swap for his BMW i8 discovered that the hybrid sports car's left muffler is not what it appears to be.
One example of BMW’s i8 is ditching the electric gubbins and getting B58 power. One-off BMW i8 is getting a 700-horsepower B58 straight-six swap, replacing entire hybrid powertrain. Custom subframes ...
BMW was working on a supercar to replace the i8 but ultimately killed the project following the onset of the pandemic, the automaker's design chief has revealed. Domagoj Dukec, who heads design for ...
More and more car companies are moving toward electric vehicles. It doesn't really matter where the company is based or what economic market it's catering to. There is just a strong push towards EVs, ...
Some cars just refuse to die, even if their manufacturers axed them years ago. That’s exactly the case with the BMW i3 and i8, which, despite being discontinued for at least two years, continue to ...
BMW has been keeping this secret for years. About ten years ago, they came up with the idea of building a successor for the i8 sports car. The project was greelighted, but months into developing the ...
While now there are more small, innovative electric cars (not before time), there really has been nothing like the i8 in the years since its introduction. A Porsche 911 hybrid offers no EV range, ...
BMW's odd hybrid sports car generated plenty of confusion when it launched. Does it make more sense as a $55k future classic?