It’s official: BMW can safely take the crown for the best-looking hybrid. Their new i8 coupe, unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show, is a lightweight, sporty, fast and yet frugal response to rising ...

BMW hopes the combination of performance capabilities and an electric motor will give the new i8 hybrid an edge over competitors. The i8, which recently arrived in U.S. showrooms, has a 0-60 time of ...

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 ...

German automaker BMW has confirmed the end is in sight for its i8 plug-in hybrid sports car. BMW will cease production of the i8 sometime in April this year, making way for the marque’s upcoming line ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s little doubt that the 2015 BMW i8 is one of the most radical and groundbreaking performance cars this industry has seen in a long time. From its unique carbon-intensive construction to its 1.5 ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

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 ...

One of BMW’s most striking modern cars—the 2016 BMW i8—is now up for auction at no reserve on Bring a Trailer. Showing just 23,000 miles, this plug-in hybrid sports coupe represents a pivotal moment ...

At the 2018 Paris Motor Show on Wednesday, BMW’s Board Representative for Product Development Klaus Frolich expressed a desire to utilize the i8 hybrid sports car ...

The 2019 BMW i8 and the 2019 Acura NSX may seem like very different machines in your mind’s eye, given that the beemer is most likely to be seen at the new downtown cocktail bar, while the fancy Honda ...