BMW is killing the i8, arguably its most misunderstood car in the past decade. I can’t say I’m surprised at the decision – only, perhaps, that it’s taken this long for BMW to make it – but I do feel an unexpected snap of melancholy all the same. Manufacturing will end this April.
It’s tough to keep turning heads after six years of production, but the i8 manages it. When you swung up the gull-wing door, and clambered over that fiendishly-wide door sill – seemingly designed specifically with sapping your dignity in mind – it was almost impossible not to grab attention.
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