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BMW Australia has announced the pricing and specification of its new i8 Roadster, which joins the updated i8 Coupe LCI in local showrooms. Priced from $318,900 for the i8 Coupe and $348,900 for the open top i8 Roadster, both plug-in hybrid models feature a further development of the BMW eDrive …

Last year BMW Australia announced a limited run of the i8 Protonic Red and only five were destined for our native soil. This year, we not only have five i8 Protonic Frozen Black Edition available, there will also be a solitary i8 Protonic Frozen Yellow destined for only one owner. “The BMW …

Renowned BMW tuner, AC Schnitzer has optimised one of the most advanced sports cars in the BMW catalogue, the i8. Introduced at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, the tuner has chosen to leave the performance side of the car untouched, instead focusing on dialing up its sex factor even further. …

Nineteen Leicester City Football Club players have been rewarded with a brand new BMW i8 each by the club’s chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, after the team’s surprise win in the Premier League. Besides handing out the i8s costing more than £100,000 each in the UK (the i8 costs at least A$299,000 …

A BMW i8 hybrid sports car has been crushed by a cement mixer truck in California, USA yesterday morning in a freak accident. According to the Orange Country Fire Authority, a gardening truck collided with a cement truck, which then tipped over onto an offramp, rolling over the unfortunately BMW …

BMW has delayed the introduction of the drop-top version of its eco-supercar, the i8. According to our friends at Motoring, the production version of the BMW i8 Spyder, which made its debut at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show as a concept, won’t hit the market until 2017 at the earliest. …

BMW is said to have taken the razor to a handful projects proposed under outgoing CEO, Dr. Norbert Reithofer’s regime. They include the i8S, M8, 9 Series coupe, Z2 roadster and 2 Series GT, as well as various MINI concepts. The only surviving project is reportedly the i5, which is …

The innovative BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports car has arrived in Australia, priced from $299,000 plus on-road costs. The first batch of cars are however, are predominantly press cars as well as demonstrators used for customer test drives through six specialist BMW i network dealerships across the country. First customer …

BMW will be the first automaker in the world to offer laser light headlamps on a production vehicle when the BMW i8 goes into production later this year. Available as an option, the laser headlamps offer a high beam range of up to 600m (1,968 feet), essentially doubling the high …