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BMW i8: A step closer to sportscars of the future
We searched for the sports-car feeling in the new BMW i8 Roadster in Mallorca
When BMW unveiled its Vision Efficient Dynamics concept back in 2009, we assumed it would probably stay just that, a concept. But then BMW actually went and put it into production in 2013 as the i8. It changed slightly from the concept of course, but today, five years after it first rolled off the production line, it still looks like a concept car, something from the future even in an era where cars of the future are rapidly becoming cars of today. Just a year after the i8 concept was unveiled in 2011, BMW revealed the Concept Spyder but production on the open-top version was delayed a number of times. Six years after the Spyder was first shown, the company has finally delivered on the promise it made back in Beijing in 2012 and delivered the i8 Roadster, still looking every bit the concept car. In spite of the fact that the i8 has been around for a while, it still remains a rare sight, especially on the island of Mallorca off the coast of Spain where, in all honesty, the narrow roa...
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