LOS ANGELES -- BMW's i8 sports car has been fairly straight laced, but now it's going to get a dash of fun. The i8 is a plug-in hybrid that BMW produced with the notion that a dose of electric power ...

BMW on Tuesday ran a test mule for a mid-engine platform at the Nürburgring. The test mule may look like a regular 8-Series coupe, but according to our photographer the noise it made points to the ...

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BMW has made the i8 hybrid supercar into a really, really cool i8 Roadster with a new design, more power, and a better battery. Launched at the LA Auto Show, the i8 Roadster and its new and improved ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...

BMW is breathing some fresh air into its three-year-old alternative flagship to improve performance, increase range, and add some style. Revealed at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show, the i8's update ...

The BMW i8 has spaceship looks, but the presence of a hybrid powertrain has always rubbed a few people, who’d much prefer to see the supercar looks with a more traditional supercar powertrain like, ...

The BMW i8 has been some kind of a black sheep in the German automaker ‘i’ brand. When BMW launched the i3, we thought that they would make ‘BMW i’ an all-electric brand, but they instead followed up ...

It took all of two days before the first supercar news of 2019 arrived. BMW, it seems, is cooking up an indirect replacement for the i8 hybrid sports coupe, only this time, the model in question is ...

Take one turbocharged engine, add two electric motors and you have a performance car that's a hella lot of fun. Emme Hall Former editor for CNET Cars I love two-seater, RWD convertibles and own a 2004 ...

Electric cars needn't be hair-shirts and eco-piety: they can be like the 2017 BMW i8, and attempt to combine the best qualities of gas and electricity in one. Flagship of the i Series, BMW's overtly ...

The BMW i8 was not only the first BMW I ever drove. It was also the first sports car, the first hybrid, the first to be constructed even partially from carbon fiber, and of course the first car with ...