BMW i8

We took a peek into the future while driving the BMW i8 in Dubai

- Karan Singh Bansatta

BMW i8 is one of those cars of which you can never really have enough. We have driven the futuristic hybrid quite a few times. In Austria, in France, in Germany, and this time around, we got a few miles on it in Dubai. Despite not being Millenials, we have had our fair share of movies based on the future, both utopic and dystopic. And so, our affection for the BMW i8 is natural because this little baby from Munich is as futuristic as it can get… in the present at least!

‘What is the best thing about this car?’ is such a debatable question when it comes to the BMW i8. It looks smashing and if it featured in Tron or I, Robot, it’d fit right in. The car has been designed like that. It is all luminous which lends it the futuristic look and all edgy which lends it the sportscar look. It has been executed wonderfully be it the air scoop or the eyelid of sorts on the taillight which looks like a separate piece. The same thing is done in front of the rear wheels too. We wonder what the sketching session for this car would have been like…

The headlight looks amazing and just when we thought that the butterfly-grille cannot be bettered (from the M-series cars), BMW tops it up with something like that. LED DRLs in the headlights and the blue accents on the grille lend it a picture-perfect front fascia which you can see in the pictures. The same goes for the tail-section. The taillight and the rear turn-signals are just wunderschönen! The next thing is probably the most crucial thing that cements the i8’s status as a sportscar… the scissor doors.