BMW i8 101: EVERYTHING BMW Wants YOU To Know About The All-New Bavarian Halo Car

What you may not know about these press junkets that the automakers send us on is that they really provide attendees with an onslaught of knowledge. You really get intimate with the vehicles and get to know everything end-to-end.

Of course, there's a problem with that. They can throw up powerpoint slides and provide attendees with all the engineers in the building, things will get mixed up or NOT mentioned at all. We see the latter happen a lot.

2015 BMW i8 Press Launch

**Read Agent001's review of his drive in the i8 around Los Angeles!

As Agents we try to be thorough but even sometimes we have a fact or figure slip through the cracks. Our bad. We'll do better. One way is by bringing the facts straight to you. One thing that happens on every launch is the standard Powerpoint presentation that goes over the vehicle top to bottom. We always find these useful because these are the points the manufacturer wants BUYERS to know.

Sometimes there's even a bit of thought-provoking content or some interesting research about the competition.

As we started with the BMW X5 eDrive prototype drive at headquarters in April, we're going to give you the 101 course on the all-new BMW i8.


2015 BMW i8 Press Launch

Yonder7 - 6/2/2014 9:07:10 AM

+1 Boost

A 3 cylinders E car the new Halo car of BMW....hell no , is not.

JRobUSC - 6/2/2014 9:33:38 AM

+3 Boost

cylinders, schmylinders. I don't care if it has a gerbil on a treadmill -- it runs 0-60 in 3.9s, gets 95mpg, is made out of aluminum and carbon fiber, and looks like a concept car inside and out, like something that time traveled back here from the future. That's a halo car. And any car that results in mobs stopping to take pictures while you're on a meandering downtown drive is doing its job.

Yonder7 - 6/3/2014 11:14:50 AM

-2 Boost

I do not argue that..you are totally right, but IMO a 3 cylinders car wont last enough, that's why I disagree to call it Halo car is wrong. The time will tell you if a 3 cylinders engine will last enough to pull or push a High Performance car....no way...even if it is a BMW pal.