With a mighty V8 in place of the standard i8's three-cylinder turbo engine and electric motor, we'd say so. A BMW i8 will ditch its plug. The BMW i8 is a plug-in hybrid sports car developed by BMW.
The i8 was part of BMW's electrified fleet and was marketed under the BMW i sub-brand. The production version of the BMW i8 was unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show and was released in Germany in June 2014. [12] Deliveries to retail customers in the U.S.
began in August 2014. [13] A roadster variant was launched in May 2018. [14.
News Racing The BMW i8 Should've Always Had 16 Cylinders and a 14,800. The BMW i8 is a masterpiece. In the late 2000s, engineers from the German automaker created a sonnet of motoring, carefully folding in the past with the future-sadly, it's a song which fell on.
Gabura Racing Technologies in Munich, Germany is fulfilling many BMW fan's dreams by building a supercar out of a BMW i8. The supercar is being called the GRT V8i and will feature a twin-turbo V8 from a BMW M5/M6. The Munich-based company - what a coincidence, right? - took a BMW i8, stripped it down to a hollow shell, took a 4.4-liter V8 engine from an M6, and put the two together.
The stock BMW i8 needs just 4.4 seconds to reach 100 km/h (62mph) from a standstill with its 360 horsepower, so we expect the tuned up i8 to be a bit faster. In other words, this thing isn't simply a V8. A neat touch is the choice of V8 - it's a BMW unit.
A good one, at that - the race-spec version of the S65 that was used in the Z4 GTE many moons ago. This gives the 'i8 GTR' 550bhp.
