BMW Rushes To Market With New i4 To Challenge Tesla And Polestar

BMW’s upcoming all-electric i4 can’t get here soon enough now that the Tesla Model 3 is no longer an only child in its segment – the Polestar 2 very recently changed that status quo.

The more we see this car, even fully camouflaged, the more we realize that we’re still many years away from actually seeing a near-copy of the BMW i Vision Dynamics Concept on the road, a car we thought would eventually become the i4. That’s clearly not the case right now.

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dlin - 2/28/2019 10:27:04 AM

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Love that BMW has been sticking with sedan on the i cars
Looking forward to it

Hauerg - 2/28/2019 12:41:31 PM

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A front mounted motor driving the rear wheels in an EV!

How do you even come up with shit like this?

SanJoseDriver - 2/28/2019 4:35:09 PM

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That is what happens when people can't let go of old models and build a car with a first principals approach. I can see their thinking... their cars today are optimized to have the weight in the front. They will probably put two motors in the front, one driving the back wheels at a way lower efficiency than everyone else. That way they don't have to drastically redesign the car from the 3 and 4 series.

MDarringer - 2/28/2019 8:45:42 PM

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If you want RWD handling dynamics, that's precisely what you do.

BMWs are NOT "optimized to have their weight at the front". What stupid sh!t is that? BMW has historically chased 50/50 weight distribution.

You two are beyond ignorant.

dlin - 3/1/2019 2:13:41 AM

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That layout is in line with current ICE vehicles and 50/50 weight distribution that BMW always strives to, but harder to achieve in I6 or V8 models.

Although this F/R is not the best for RWD handling, which works better with 45/55(MR) - 40/60(RR) weight distribution, BMW should be excused as a main stream MFR trying to carry tradition to keep its customer base.

SanJoseDriver - 3/1/2019 3:23:03 PM

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No MD, think about it. They are 50/50 weight distributed because of the reason I mentioned. The chassi is already designed to handle more weight at the front so that it can be 50/50. The lazies way to build an EV is to keep that same assumption so that the chassi does not have to be redesigned. The Model 3 is 50/50 as well, but it has more interior space because it was designed for an EV from the ground up and has far less mechanical space in the front than an ICE car. It's a better design for an EV plain and simple, not a conversion project.