The i8's greatest weaknesses are its underpowered engine and weak gearbox, so this DIY builder set out to fix it.

The BMW i8 was an aesthetically beautiful luxury vehicle ... which had an output of 560 horsepower with its 4.4L V8 engine.

The BMW i8 arrived with the intriguing idea of being ... it was already offering the inline-six-powered M3 and M4 and a V8 in the M8. Your changes have been saved Email is sent Email has already ...

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Yeah, I’d rather have the BMW, too. Warranties and back seats are overrated, and oh, there’s also the part where the i8 looks like a million bucks, and the Camry looks like a Camry.

From a design standpoint, the 507 was anything but a failure, as it featured the first BMW V8 engine paired to a lightweight ... its vehicles, and the i8 was at the center of this endeavor.

The word on the street in Germany has it that BMW will put the i8 Spyder concept into production, now over three years since it debuted in concept form at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show. The BMW i8 ...

Instead we got the M8 Competition coupe, with a 616bhp twin-turbocharged V8 to haul its 1885kg around ... first hybrid is not far away either. BMW’s i8 may have been a sales miss, but only ...

Rather than use the 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8 that McLaren ... the i sub-brand, BMW's own skunkworks shifted its focus to developing a more performance-focused version of the i8, known by some ...

The BMW V8 is capable of sending the Bullet from 0-62mph ... customers to view the new Bullet following its launch. BMW i8 – the car world's greatest misses A bold concept with a visionary ...

Automakers often work on vehicles that never reach production. Sometimes, this is because the designers are developing competitive models, and only one of them can get the green list for assembly.