RE: BMW i8 | PH Used Buying Guide

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PGNSagaris said:

Had one briefly last year.

From a driving perspective it was a bit dull, synthetic, felt slow and sounds meh.

Sums up my feelings from my limited time behind the wheel of one.

I'm not seeing this being a future classic for many years due to the numbers built and the complexity of them.

[PGNSagaris]

Max_Torque said:

The biggest issue i have with the i8 is that i can't help thinking how good it would be just as a sports EV, ditch the stupid ICE and just fit more motors and batteries.

With an i3s motor in each end for 400ish ponies, and say 50 kWh of battery,it would be a proper sports EV, not something that currently exists outside of the flawed and rather impractical original Tesla Roadster......

Sports EV’s are crap. A daily EV is excellent.

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I took a test drive in an i8 Roadster and ended up buying one, as its one of the most exciting cars i have driven in a long while, i would wholly recommend this car i get about 31 miles on full electric so driving into Brighton and back is all electric, but taking it for a spin in sport mode is just tremendous fun.

[TheBMWDriver]

One Think that transformed the car, switch back tyres to the front, back to 275/35/20, Ideally PS4S and now the car will handle well as well as look fantastic.

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Mirinjawbro said:

do many people get these remapped?

i dont find much online about it

i know evolve did and knocked a bit of the 100-200 time

Just stumbled over this thread here, while thinking of how to replace my "old" M4 cp convertible.
Stage 1 remapped with nearly 700 nm torgue now and still great looks.
Use it as a compromise car and a daily and was pretty fine with it for the last 3 years.
The "new" doesnt get me at all from the looks and replacing is either moving somewhere(nothing in the possible price range
really tempting me) or started thinking about an i8 roadster. Which brought me here.
Drove one for a good while as my dealer has few of them in stock.
Liked many things, starting with the great looks and and a cool concept, which is pretty unique and will be,
as it looks for now. Usability is great for a supercar lookalike, which is an gt car with 2 seats.
Coming to your question and what i didnt like so much.
Car felt bit slow and brought me to the same question, what power upgrades are out there, as bit more
torque and power would be fine and the chassis can take that easy.
Edo popken is the only one i found so far, who offers in switzerland an upgrade to 450 hp and over 700 mn.
Plus few more things that look cool and could be interesting if you want to go that road.
He s a designer as far as i know and well known racer/owner of race company.
But i also really disliked how to get in and out from the car!
Roof closed, wow! Challenge on, i m 56 and in ok shape, bit back, but still ok and no overweight.
But hard to see myself doing this every day. With roof open, bit easier, but still not nice move.
The parking and door opening problem was described well up here.
So in this area i m still struggling.
Leaving the option to use it as a sunday, no holiday :-(, car...
But for this i d prefer my oldtimer..
But the open motoring in the i8 was very special! Have to say, this is on the plus side for sure and
a very rare option as nobody seems to go that way...

Really tough first world problems!
Forgot that, my wife makes pressure to get away from the 500+ powercars and the i8
could be a nice compromise...
Have to think about it and will update if i came to a conclusion