Feb 18, 2017 10:50 AM
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BMW would have you believe that the new i8 is the sports car of the future and it's a believable claim of a car that is daring exotic and state of the art in just about every way you might judge it
But the i8 also marks BMW's return to a part of the market that it has flirted with in years gone by, and rather memorably so. The Z8 and M1 have a successor in this car and they are some daunting acts to follow
the i8 began with the 2009 vision efficient dynamics conecpt which reintroduced the idea of a mid-engined BMW flagship and drew power from two electric motors and a three-cylinder turbodiesel engine. That became the plug-in hybrid i8 concept at Frankfurt two years later, swapping the diesel for a petrol turbo
